John Melas-Kyriazi will become an associate at Spark, a venture capital firm, at its Boston offices.
John Melas-Kyriazi (pictured), co-founder of the Stanford-affiliated StartX Fund, is to leave the student-led accelerator’s investment fund to join Spark Capital as an associate at its Boston offices.
Melas-Kyriazi originally joined the StartX accelerator, founded in 2009 by students to back start-ups launched by classmates, as a partnerships director in 2012. He later left his PhD at Stanford in September 2013 to co-found the StartX Fund, which was given a $1.2m annual operating grant from Stanford University and Stanford Hospital…
