Todd Dagres

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Mr. Todd Dagres is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Litesport. He also is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Spark Capital. He is an Angel Investor. He served as a Board Member at Freight Farms. He serves as Board Member at SiFive, and Benu Networks. He is a venture capitalist and fitness enthusiast. He served as a Board Member at Kateeva. He is also the Founder of DCD Productions (UK). He also serves as a Board Member at 1stdibs. He served as a Board Member at Jana Mobile. He leads the drive to find the home runs, to uncover the 100x opportunities. He has said that his work to bring Akamai from an idea to a 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. He has led Spark's investments in Signpost, Menara Networks, Verivue, Covestor, Group Commerce, Intune Networks, and FitOrbit. He 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. Before Battery Ventures, he 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. He holds an MBA from Boston University and a B.S. in psychology from Trinity College.