For Investors
Building the infrastructure for real-world relationships.
SPARK is the operating system for real-world relationships — a members-only platform where people meet through curated experiences, not endless swiping. Live in New Zealand and Thailand, on the ground in Auckland and Bangkok.
Request the Investor DeckThe Problem
Digital social has stopped delivering real connection.
Swipe fatigue is real
A generation raised on matching apps is walking away from them. Endless profiles, vanishing conversations and no accountability have exhausted the very users those platforms depend on.
Engagement ≠ connection
Legacy platforms are optimised for screen time, not outcomes. The business model rewards keeping people swiping — not helping them meet. SPARK is built on the opposite incentive.
Nowhere to actually meet
Even when people match, there is no trusted path from chat to a real room. The missing layer is infrastructure: review, curation and real-world venues — operated as one system.
The Solution
From application to real-world relationship.
01
Apply & review
Membership is by application. Every application is personally reviewed before anyone enters the community — trust is the foundation, not a feature.
02
Curated rooms, not profiles
SPARK curates who is in the room before anyone walks in — dinners, tastings, rooftop sessions and residencies designed around compatible people.
03
Meet in the real world
Members meet at bookable venues across the city — the app is the key, the experience is the product.
04
Relationships compound
Every meeting deepens the member graph — better curation, stronger retention and a community that grows by word of mouth.
Product
The app is the key. The experience is the product.
01 · Verified identity
02 · Curated discovery
03 · Ten Sparks a day
04 · Match becomes a plan
05 · Curated experiences
06 · Book the venue
Screens from the live SPARK app, as published in the SPARK press kit — the member journey from verification to a booked, real-world meeting.
Why Now
The market is turning our way.
App fatigue went mainstream
Users are abandoning swipe-based platforms in search of something real. The demand shift toward in-person, intentional social discovery is a generational tailwind.
Trust is table stakes
In an era of AI-generated profiles and catfishing, communities built on trust become dramatically more valuable. SPARK was built application-first from day one.
The experience economy
People increasingly spend on curated in-person experiences over material goods — and will pay a premium for rooms filled with the right people. Detailed market sizing is available in the investor deck.
Business Model
Membership is the product.
Membership subscriptions
Application-based membership creates recurring revenue with the retention profile of a club, not the churn profile of a match-based app.
Curated experiences
Paid, per-seat experiences — dinners, tastings, rooftop sessions — monetise every real-world meeting across our bookable venue network in supported markets.
Venue & brand partnerships
SPARK delivers premium venues a curated audience on quiet nights — a distribution channel brands pay to reach.
Why SPARK Wins
Not a match-based app. Not an events page. Not a members’ club.
vs. match-based apps
Match-based apps sell attention; SPARK sells outcomes. Our incentive is a completed real-world meeting — measured, curated and repeatable — not another hour of swiping.
vs. event platforms
Event platforms fill rooms with strangers; SPARK curates who is in the room. Reviewed applications plus a compounding member graph make every event better than the last.
vs. members’ clubs
Private clubs are bound by real estate. SPARK scales like software — a city-density playbook, a bookable venue network and no buildings to own.
The moat
A curated member graph, curation data from every completed meeting, an exclusive venue network and a brand built on trust — each compounds with density and is hard to copy with capital alone.
Go-To-Market
A city-density playbook.
SPARK launches one city at a time and builds density before expanding — because curation quality, venue leverage and word-of-mouth all compound locally. The playbook was built in Bangkok and is now running in Auckland.
Bangkok — live
Launch market. Home of the playbook: venue partnerships, curated experience formats and the first cohort of members who met in real life.
Auckland — live
Second market, proving the playbook transfers across cities and cultures with the same organic growth engine.
New Zealand — live
SPARK’s first English-speaking market and the template for Western expansion.
Australia — next
The next market in sequence, with the city-density playbook applied to Sydney and Melbourne’s deep experience economies.
Team
Operators who have scaled consumer platforms before.
Sunny Khurana — Founder & CEO
20+ years building businesses across APAC and New Zealand, including 18 years founding and running Yellow Rooster Mortgages & Insurance.
LinkedIn ↗Michael Cluzel — Strategy Advisor
Co-founder & CEO of EATIGO — raised US$25M including TripAdvisor, reaching a US$120M valuation. Previously ran P&Ls exceeding US$750M at Digicel, Vimpelcom and Millicom.
LinkedIn ↗Manish Jha — Co-Founder & COO
Scaled a PWA product from zero to 169 million users in five years; deep experience across SaaS, Web3 and AI platforms in APAC and the Middle East.
LinkedIn ↗Bill Alena — Chief Marketing Officer
Ex-CRO of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET) overseeing US$200M+ annual revenue; scaled MyYearbook from zero to US$100M+ revenue and a US$100M+ exit.
LinkedIn ↗Gagan Ajmani — CFO
Ex-Group CFO of Deliveree, where he led fundraising rounds totalling over US$120M with top-tier venture capital, private equity and venture debt providers.
LinkedIn ↗Prashant Gupta — CTO
16+ years architecting web, mobile and cloud systems; founder of BiCSoM, with deep expertise in microservices, distributed systems and scale.
LinkedIn ↗Daria Littlefield — Director of Customer Experience
Founder of Silicon Valley Support, an AI-native customer success consultancy; previously led Customer Support at Social Discovery Group across a portfolio of dating, social and AI products. Builds premium member experiences at scale.
LinkedIn ↗Full leadership profiles — including photography — are on the About page.
The Round
Join the investors backing SPARK.
The full deck, detailed terms and the data room are shared directly with qualified investors on request.