James Kuklinski is a General Partner at Spark Capital, focused on leading growth-stage investments across technology sectors.

Prior to joining Spark in 2018, James worked at Allen & Company, where he advised numerous high-growth private and public technology companies such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Roku on mergers & acquisitions, capital raises and principal investments. James began his career as an actor, performing as Gavroche in Les Misérables on Broadway among many other theatre, TV and movie roles.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and lives in New York with his wife, daughter and dog, Milton.