Ben Spero

Partner at Spectrum Equity

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Mar 2020
At In Tandem, we empower families with tools that help them navigate the challenges of modern life with confidence, calm, and ease.​ Our brands provide a range of solutions to streamline daily routines, offer resources and guidance during challenging times, and promote overall peace-of-mind. OurFamilyWizard - Cozi - FamilyWall - Custody Navigator
Board Member
Oct 2018
AllTrails helps you find your outside with inspiration from a global community of trailgoers. We connect people to the outdoors, help them discover new places, and elevate their experiences on the trail. Download AllTrails in the App Store or head to AllTrails.com to learn more.
Board Member
Jun 2017
Headspace is your lifelong guide to better mental health. We make mental health support accessible to everyone, no matter their background or experience. Through our flagship Headspace app, we provide mental health coaching in addition to mindfulness and mental health tools for everyday life, like guided meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement, and focus exercises. Our enterprise offerings combine this experience with EAP and work-life services, as well as therapy and psychiatry services – all in a single destination. Our team of experts ranges from mental health clinicians to Emmy award-winning producers and data scientists, working together as one to help millions of people around the world be healthier and more productive. To learn more, please visit headspace.com.
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Jun 2016
Lucid Software is the leader in visual collaboration and work acceleration, helping teams see and build the future by turning ideas into reality. Its products include the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite (Lucidchart and Lucidspark) and airfocus. The Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, combined with powerful accelerators for business agility, cloud, and process transformation, empowers organizations to streamline work, foster alignment, and drive business transformation at scale. airfocus, an AI-powered product management and roadmapping platform, extends these capabilities by helping teams prioritize work, define product strategy, and align execution with business goals. The most used work acceleration platform by the Fortune 500, Lucid’s solutions are trusted by more than 100 million users across enterprises worldwide, including Google, GE, and NBC Universal. Lucid partners with leaders such as Google, Atlassian, and Microsoft, and has received numerous awards for its products, growth, and workplace culture. The company holds true to its core values, including teamwork over ego, innovation in everything we do, individual empowerment, initiative, ownership, and passion and excellence in every area. Learn more at lucid.co.
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Jun 2015
Jimdo’s mission is to unleash the power of self-employed small business owners, the backbone of the global economy, and help them thrive. We offer products and services to help founders start, grow, and manage their businesses. Jimdo was founded by three school friends in 2007 in a farmhouse in Northern Germany. Today, we’re a growing profitable business with a team of 250+ people from 50 nationalities based in over 15 countries. We have a physical location in Hamburg, Germany, where teams come together for in-person collaboration. Jimdo started as a website builder, and has helped businesses create over 32 million websites. Over the years, our portfolio evolved to specifically serve the unique needs of microbusinesses. In addition to our GDPR-compliant website builder powered by AI, we offer an online store, logo creator, legal text generator, business listings, social media integration, SEO, and more. We are constantly developing new products and services that make the lives of microbusiness owners easier and help fuel their businesses. If you’re inspired by our mission and like the idea of working for a dynamic remote-first company where you can create impact from day 1, we’d love to meet you! Jimdo is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. This means that we dont discriminate based on race or ethnic origin, color, the language(s) you speak, where you (or your parents) are from, or whether or not you consider yourself to have a disability. Neither will your age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, or political opinions play a part in your application with us. Were a diverse team in so many ways, and we love it that way. Privacy Policy: www.jimdo.com/info/social-media-privacy-notice/ About us: https://www.jimdo.com/info/about/
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Aug 2013
Grubhub is a leading food-ordering and delivery marketplace on a mission to empower everyday convenience and champion merchants from coast to coast. Part of Wonder, a new kind of food hall that is revolutionizing the food industry by creating the super app for mealtime, Grubhub features more than 375,000 merchants in over 4,000 U.S. cities. Restaurants, grocery, and local merchants are the core of our offering—and the heart of the communities we serve. Our mission is to strengthen our roots, deepen our connections, and increase our positive impact. We strive to help merchants grow their businesses and experiment with new concepts. Our community is powered by thousands of drivers around the country. We provide drivers with flexible opportunities to work and earn on their own schedules—and keep 100% of the tips they earn while they deliver. Together with our merchants and drivers, we give customers more options for delivery, whether it’s their go-to meal from their favorite local restaurant, or a craving to discover something new. Through the Grubhub Community Fund, we have given more than $70 million to charitable organizations and communities nationwide since 2020. Focusing on supporting independent restaurants, helping close the hunger gap, and creating more opportunities for people in the hospitality industry, we forge nationwide partnerships that strengthen our competitiveness in the marketplace, attract and retain the best talent, and show customers how we support the communities they live in. Since we opened our doors in Chicago in 2004, Grubhub has been opening doors all across the country. With thousands of merchants nationwide, Grubhub delivers the best local, authentic cuisine right to diners’ doors—and new customers and billions in revenue to local businesses. And that helps open even more doors. Bakery doors in Hyde Park. Jibarito joint doors in Queens. And doors of opportunity all across the country.
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Sep 2012
In 16+ countries across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, The Knot Worldwide champions the power of celebration. The company’s global family of brands provides best-in-class products, services, and content to take celebration planning from inspiration to action. At the core of The Knot Worldwide business is our industry-leading global online wedding Vendor Marketplace, connecting couples with local wedding professionals and a comprehensive suite of personalized wedding websites, planning tools, invitations and registry services that make wedding planning easier for couples around the globe. Each year, The Knot Worldwide connects 4 million+ couples with nearly 850,000 vendors within its global wedding Marketplace.
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Jun 2011
Animoto's award-winning online video maker makes it easy for anyone to drag and drop their way to powerful and professional marketing videos. The company’s partnerships with Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and the Small Business Administration give it insight into the changing social media and business landscape, which is why more than 1 million businesses around the world have used Animoto to create marketing videos that stand out on social media and beyond.
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2009
SurveyMonkey is a global leader in online surveys and forms that empowers people with the insights they need to make decisions with speed and confidence. Our fast, intuitive feedback management platform connects millions of users worldwide with real-time AI-powered insights that drive meaningful decisions. We provide answers to more than 20 million questions every day so that people and organizations can attract new audiences, delight customers, create advocates, and extend their competitive advantage in the marketplace. Our vision is to raise the bar for human experiences by amplifying individual voices. Learn more at surveymonkey.com.
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2009
Momentive (NASDAQ: MNTV), maker of SurveyMonkey, empowers leaders with the insights they need to make business decisions with speed and confidence. Our fast, intuitive experience and insights management solutions connect millions of users at over 300,000 organizations worldwide with AI-powered technology and up-to-the-minute insights, so they can shape what’s next for their products, industries, customers, employees, and the market. Ultimately, our vision is to raise the bar for human experiences by amplifying individual voices. Learn more at momentive.ai.
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Dec 2006
CYBERCOMMANDER is a division of OMNICOMMANDER. CYBERCOMMANDER provides training and auditing services for credit unions and their staff to ensure the highest level of knowledge when it comes to cybersecurity in order to keep their credit union safe, as well as their members who interact with their websites and conduct financial transactions online.
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2025
Board Member
Jan 2025
Create personalized customer journeys that engage and convert with our versatile customer engagement platform. Scale, flex, and innovate at your own pace. Because when powered by data, your messages lead to meaningful relationships. Deliver meaningful interactions: Make every message relevant by building unique customer interactions across mobile and web using email, in-app messages, SMS, and push notifications. Designed to help you scale: Manage all your messaging in one place with a platform that seamlessly integrates with the tools you use every day. Data without limits: Put an end to data silos by easily moving real-time data from source to destination and crafting campaigns with unlimited profile attributes, events, or actions.
2020
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Mar 2020
At In Tandem, we empower families with tools that help them navigate the challenges of modern life with confidence, calm, and ease.​ Our brands provide a range of solutions to streamline daily routines, offer resources and guidance during challenging times, and promote overall peace-of-mind. OurFamilyWizard - Cozi - FamilyWall - Custody Navigator
Board Member
Mar 2020
OurFamilyWizard is the worlds largest co-parenting platform with a mission to help families living separately thrive. We provide both families and the professionals who serve them with the tools necessary for more seamless and successful co-parenting. Nearly one million users have leveraged our app to share calendars, messages, journals, files, expenses, and important information like health and school records. By keeping families in sync, OurFamilyWizard helps improve outcomes for children and parents. We believe deeply in our mission and serve our customers, community, and employees through a values-driven approach. Our values of Thrive Together, Put Families First, Champion Inclusion, and Live with Integrity are the principles that guide our day-to-day decisions.
2018
Board Member
Oct 2018
AllTrails helps you find your outside with inspiration from a global community of trailgoers. We connect people to the outdoors, help them discover new places, and elevate their experiences on the trail. Download AllTrails in the App Store or head to AllTrails.com to learn more.
2017
Board Member
Jun 2017
Headspace is your lifelong guide to better mental health. We make mental health support accessible to everyone, no matter their background or experience. Through our flagship Headspace app, we provide mental health coaching in addition to mindfulness and mental health tools for everyday life, like guided meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement, and focus exercises. Our enterprise offerings combine this experience with EAP and work-life services, as well as therapy and psychiatry services – all in a single destination. Our team of experts ranges from mental health clinicians to Emmy award-winning producers and data scientists, working together as one to help millions of people around the world be healthier and more productive. To learn more, please visit headspace.com.
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