Todd Dagres

Bio

Todd Dagres is a founder and General Partner of Spark Capital. He leads the drive to find the home runs, to uncover the 100x opportunities. He has said that his work to bring Akamai from idea to publicly traded company was his doctoral thesis in venture capital. It is that bedrock of knowledge and the experiences built upon it that he brings to Spark and our partner companies. Todd has led Spark’s investments in Signpost, Menara Networks, Verivue, Covestor, Kateeva, Group Commerce, Intune Networks, FitOrbit and txteagle. Todd was previously a General Partner and Executive Committee Member at Battery Ventures. There he led the Communications Investment practice while focusing on the media, entertainment and communications industries. Some of his investments at Battery include Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM), Qtera (acquired by Nortel Networks), XCOM (acquired by Level 3 Communications), Redstone (acquired by Siemens), River Delta Networks (acquired by Motorola), Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola), Arbor Networks and Cedar Point Communications. Todd was named to the Forbes Midas List, which ranks top venture capitalists who have created the most wealth for their investors, three times. He was also named to the 2008 Hollywood IT List by AlwaysOn, which features the top entertainment executives and dealmakers in information technology. Todd was also a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management for a number of years, where he taught a course entitled “New Enterprise.” His entertainment and media endeavors include establishing two film and television production companies (Prospect Pictures and Ealing Studios) that together have produced over 10 films and TV shows since 2003. He has also been involved in the production of several films, including “Pretty Persuasion” (2005 Sundance Film Festival), which was released by Samuel Goldwyn and Sony Pictures Entertainment, and “TransSiberian” (2008 Sundance Film Festival), which was released by First Look Studios. In 2004, he established the Face of an Angel Foundation. Face of an Angel is a nonprofit, charitable foundation dedicated to education, research and treatment in the area of vascular malforma and tumors that cause severe birthmarks and disfigurement in 0.2 percent of newborns. He has served on the Board of Fellows at Trinity College and on the Board of Trustees at Governor’s Academy. Prior to Battery Ventures, Todd was Principal and Senior Technology Analyst at Montgomery Securities; Senior Technology Analyst and Vice President at Smith Barney/Robinson Humphrey; Vice President of Communications at the Yankee Group; and Business Development Manager for Networks and Communications at Digital Equipment Corporation. Todd Dagres holds an MBA from Boston University and a BS in psychology from Trinity College, Hartford, CT.