Growing up in a small Midwestern town, Miko took an unlikely path to venture. He spent his teenage years performing around the world as a classical pianist. He went on to study music and industrial engineering at Northwestern before joining Goldman Sachs. Miko is an investor on the early-stage team at Spark, joining from Ribbit, where he led the firm’s investment in Decagon. “I want to do this job in a very unscalable way,” he says. “Hands-on, and with a small handful of founders who are irrationally motivated and unapologetically ambitious.”