Sparq builds data infrastructure for financial services firms to manage and monetize alternative data.
$8.5MSeed
Investor undisclosed
An $8.5M seed for financial data infrastructure signals that institutional buyers are finally willing to pay for *reliable* data pipes instead of cobbling together Bloomberg + APIs—this is less about market timing and more about a specific pain point reaching critical mass. Sparq will likely burn this on hiring data engineers and building connectors to exchanges/brokers, not sales. If you're building any B2B tool that touches trading or portfolio management, watch how Sparq positions data access as a moat; that playbook applies to other regulated verticals too.