Built by a Veteran

One founder. Five years.Veteran-led engineering discipline.

Sparked Technology Solutions was founded and is led by a military veteran with a Juris Doctor and five years of dedicated personal investment in the architecture, the engineering discipline, the legal foundation, and the customer discovery work that informs every product decision.

The discipline that runs the company comes from operational military experience and legal training, not from a Silicon Valley startup playbook. Decisions get documented before they get made. Every architectural choice is written up before it is implemented. Every implementation gets validated against the spec. Every change gets versioned and dated. The audit trail exists from day one because federal customers expect it from day one.

Every product the company ships exists because the founder needed it first and could not find anything in the market that met the standard. The first reference build serves a veteran service organization supporting more than twenty-one thousand veterans. The federal roadmap is what comes next.

Founder
Shawn Paul Cosner
Founder & CEO
Sparked Technology Solutions Incorporated
  • ServiceU.S. Military Veteran
  • EducationJuris Doctor
  • DisciplineSelf-Taught Engineer
  • HeadquartersWest Virginia
  • Building Since2021

The diligence has already been done.

Sparked Technology Solutions has been validated through veteran founder accelerators, national entrepreneurship training programs, university research initiatives, and more than one hundred customer discovery interviews. Every program below represents an institution that has already evaluated the company and chosen to engage.

2024
Patriot Boot Camp
National accelerator program for active duty service members, veterans, and military spouses building technology companies. Intensive boot camp covering product development, customer discovery, and go-to-market strategy for veteran founders.
Accepted · Completed
2025 · 2026
Syracuse IVMF · Military Founders Lab
National entrepreneurship program at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University. Selective cohort-based program for veteran founders building defensible technology companies with federal market opportunity. Currently in Cohort 26B.
Active Cohort
2024 · 2025
NSF I-Corps · Regional
Completed regional National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program. Formal customer discovery methodology and business model validation grounded in direct interviews with prospective customers. National I-Corps application in progress for non-dilutive research funding.
Completed · National Pending
2024 · 2025
IgniteWV Innovation Competition
Won Round One of the West Virginia statewide innovation competition and competed in the Finals against the strongest emerging technology companies in the state. Statewide recognition of the platform thesis and engineering foundation.
Round 1 Winner · Finalist
2024
WVU Veterans Pitch Competition
Recognized by West Virginia University in their Veterans Pitch Competition for the publishing portfolio and broader creative infrastructure work under the sparked.Solutions umbrella. Award recipient in a competitive veteran-founder field.
Award Recipient
2024 · 2025
Second Service Foundation
Engagement with the Second Service Foundation, an institutional supporter of veteran founders pursuing meaningful second-act entrepreneurship after military service. Programmatic support and founder community resources.
Active Engagement
2024
Military Entrepreneur Challenge
Competed in the Military Entrepreneur Challenge, presenting Sparked Technology Solutions to a panel of veteran investors, defense contracting professionals, and entrepreneurship judges in a live pitch format.
Competed