Dalton Caldwell — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-Founder and Partner at Standard Capital since 2025.
Partner Emeritus at Y Combinator, where he worked for over 12 years.
Co-founded imeem in 2003, a digital music platform that was later acquired by MySpace.
Founded Mixed Media Labs in 2010, launching products like picplz and App.net.
Graduated from Stanford University in 2003 with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and a B.A. in Psychology.

Biography

Dalton Caldwell is an American technologist and investor, born on February 27, 1980, in El Paso, Texas. He graduated from Stanford University in 2003 with a B.S.

in Symbolic Systems and a B.A. in Psychology.

After a brief internship at VA Software, Caldwell co-founded imeem in late 2003 with Jan Jannink. Imeem was a digital music platform that was eventually acquired by MySpace.