For Investors
Building the infrastructure for real-world relationships.
SPARK is the operating system for real-world relationships — a members-only platform where identity-verified people meet through curated experiences, not endless swiping. 10,000+ registered members across Bangkok and Singapore. 62% organic acquisition. Backed by investors across six countries.
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: verification, curation and real-world venues — operated as one system.
The Solution
From application to real-world relationship.
01
Apply & verify
Membership is by application. Every member is identity-verified before they enter 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 partner venues across the city — the app is the key, the experience is the product. 892 real-world meetings completed to date.
04
Relationships compound
Every meeting deepens the member graph — better curation, stronger retention and a community that grows by word of mouth. 62% of members join organically.
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.
Traction
Proof that people show up.
10,000+
Registered members
1,397+
Members met in real life
892
Completed real-world meetings
62%
Organic acquisition — zero paid marketing
~30%
Month-on-month member growth
19.2%
Day-30 retention
Methodology: metrics as of July 2026 from SPARK’s internal analytics, as published in the SPARK press kit. “Members met in real life” counts unique members who completed at least one in-person meeting arranged through SPARK; completed meetings are counted separately. Growth to date has been achieved with zero paid marketing.
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.
Verification is table stakes
In an era of AI-generated profiles and catfishing, identity-verified communities become dramatically more valuable. SPARK was built verified-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 dating app.
Curated experiences
Paid, per-seat experiences — dinners, tastings, rooftop sessions — monetise every real-world meeting across a network of 3,000+ partner venues.
Venue & brand partnerships
SPARK delivers premium venues a curated, verified audience on quiet nights — a distribution channel brands pay to reach.
Why SPARK Wins
Not a dating app. Not an events page. Not a members’ club.
vs. dating apps
Dating 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. Verified identity plus a compounding member graph makes every event better than the last.
vs. members’ clubs
Private clubs are bound by real estate. SPARK scales like software — a city-density playbook, 3,000+ partner venues and no buildings to own.
The moat
A verified 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 is proven in Bangkok, repeated in Singapore, and now being packaged for its third and fourth markets.
Bangkok — live
Launch market. Home of the playbook: venue partnerships, curated experience formats and the first cohort of members who met in real life.
Singapore — live
Second market, proving the playbook transfers across cities and cultures with the same organic growth engine.
New Zealand — August 2026
Operations launch 1 August 2026; app launch 1 September 2026. 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 & Revenue Advisor
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 Client Success
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.
SPARK is currently raising a US$1.6 million Seed round to expand across Asia-Pacific. The company has raised US$400,000 in pre-seed capital from investors across six countries. The full deck, detailed terms and the data room are shared directly with qualified investors on request.