Nabeel Hyatt

Nabeel Hyatt is General Partner at Spark Capital. He led the Series A, and was the sole outside board member, at Cruise Automation which was acquired by General Motors in 2016. He led Spark's early investment in Postmates and has served on the board since 2014. He also serves on the board of Capella Space, Discord, Harmonix, Instawork, Proletariat, Rare Bits, Smash.gg, Sonder, North, and Zum. Nabeel began his career as a four time serial entrepreneur, serving variously as founder, CEO, or head of Product at a variety of startups, including MIT Media Lab spin-out Ambient Devices (pioneering IoT consumer electronics), Teamtalk (global sports media company, IPO'd in 2001), and Conduit Labs (one of the first social gaming companies, acquired by Zynga). Nabeel is investing and advising on the edge of new market creation from robotics to online-offline marketplaces and has spoken at Techcrunch Disrupt, CES, GDC, SXSW, and other conferences. He studied Computer Science at Purdue University and received a degree in Design from Maryland Institute, College of Art.