Sparkboard
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Sparkboard was a 2012-founded startup, backed by Y Combinator, that built a community-organizer platform for crowds to self-organize into small, focused, interdisciplinary teams. Its mission was to turn large, unwieldy crowds into teams of people working around a common purpose, using community support and technology to foster collaboration, innovation, and social change. The company raised about $120,000 in a seed round in August 2012 but never scaled, and PitchBook now lists it as out of business.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded, Y Combinator seed round
Sparkboard was founded in 2012 with a vision to empower crowds to self-organize into focused, interdisciplinary teams, raising about $120,000 in a seed round in August 2012 with Y Combinator backing.
- Ceased operations
The company went out of business (recorded event year; PitchBook marks Sparkboard Out of Business), ending its community-organizer platform.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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