THE FIRST SPARK Email Kate

The Raise

TWO HUNDRED
FIFTY THOUSAND

On a ten-million post. SAFE. Two and a half percent. That is the 2026 market for a check this size, and the stack is already built. LvlUp Labs, accepted. Capital trains a standalone model on the Selector Model and the Sparkverse. Hiring that stack out runs $150,000 to $330,000.

Raise
$250,000
Pre-money
$9,750,000
Post-money
$10,000,000
Instrument
SAFE
For
2.5%

Already built

The check sits on a stack.

The 2026 market for a check this size is a ten-million post. This round is priced there because the company under it is already built.

Replacement cost
$150K – $330K

2026 hire-out rates. Tools at a mid-level US contract rate. Books at the low end of a professional manuscript. Clips priced as a batch library. The backup drive is still outside the range.

The catalog

63 tools

Named tools in the live Sparkverse catalog. Shipped solo, in the browser.

The books

Three finished

Reality is Programmable. Spark OS Manual. Consciousness is Code. A novel, its bible, and the workbooks sit with them.

Picture and motion

400+ clips

On-brand, named for use. Six hundred-plus images, covers, key visuals, and the brand system.

The IP

Selector Model

Four layers and the Soul Map generator. The curriculum Spark trains on.

The doors

Live URLs

Soul Maps at $22. Freq Match. Sparkverse. The shop. Open them from this page.

The file

Zero burn

Notion, lore, go-to-market, and the investor record. Akron. Solo. No outside capital.

Use of funds

Train Spark.

Off rented intelligence. Onto weights The First Spark owns.

The model

Train Spark

A standalone model on the Selector Model and the Sparkverse. Canon, the Soul Map archive, rituals, and the live tools.

The wedge

Run it under Soul Maps

Decode in five minutes without a borrowed mind. The $22 page stops depending on someone else's API.

The world

Run it in Sparkverse

Tools, drops, and the world ride the same model. One founder laptop is not the runtime.

Already shipping

Click the live work.

Soul Maps at $22. Freq Match live. Sixty-three tools in the catalog. Thirty-nine founding members. Zero outside capital. Akron. Solo.

The ask

Write Kate.

Kate@thefirstspark.shop. The round is a SAFE. This page is the deck.

kate@thefirstspark.shop