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Spark

Spark PR is a technology focused public relations and marketing agency. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in New York City. Spark PR was co-founded in 1999 by Donna Burke and Chris Hempel in 1999. Because of their background in Silicon Valley, Spark helps to develop strategies to guide tech startups through the media. Their clients have included Tellme, which was later acquired by Microsoft, VA Linux, and incredibly successful IPO, and The Barksdale Group, a venture capital fund. Spark clients today include startups as well as fortune 500 companies, including such big names as Bing Travel, Yahoo!, Electronic Arts, Visa, Verizon,Flickr, Trulia, Mozilla, Nielsen, Nokia and Skype.