Todd Dagres
General Partner
Todd Dagres is a founder and General Partner of Spark Capital. Mr. Dagres has led Spark's investments in Veoh Networks, Menara Networks, Verivue, EQAL, Covestor, and Intune Networks. Mr. Dagres was previously a General Partner and Executive Committee Member at Battery Ventures, where his investments generated profits of over $1.1 billion to Battery Limited Partners.
At Battery, Mr. Dagres 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.
Mr. Dagres was named to the Forbes Midas List, which ranks top venture capitalists who have created the most wealth for their investors, three times.
Mr. Dagres 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. Mr. Dagres' 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 which won entry into the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and has been released by Samuel Goldwyn and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
In 2004, Mr. Dagres established the Face of an Angel Foundation. Face of an Angel is a non-profit, 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, Mr. Dagres 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.
Mr. Dagres holds an MBA from Boston University and a BS in Psychology from Trinity College, Hartford CT.
