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Built by people who played

Spark Labs is Sean Morey’s and John Wolfe’s company. They founded it, they own it, and it holds the exclusive license for memorabilia from NovaVera and Intelligent Material Solutions.

Sean Morey and John Wolfe on the field before a game
Sean Morey and John Wolfe, on the field before a game.
Sean Morey in uniform

Sean Morey

Co-founder and owner

  • Inventor of the Spark Labs pen, named on patent application US 2026/0264442 A1
  • Super Bowl XL champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers
  • Pro Bowl, and Sports Illustrated’s Special Teams Player of the Decade for the 2000s
  • 10 credited NFL seasons
  • NFL Players Association Executive Committee, advocating for player health, safety and welfare
  • All-American at Brown University, graduating with honors; led NCAA Division I-AA in receptions and was Ivy League Player of the Year in 1997

Sean’s first coaching job was head coach of the Princeton Varsity Sprint Football program, coaching alongside his Spark Labs co-founder, John Wolfe. He has spent a career on the side of the people whose names are on the jersey, and he invented the pen that now protects their signatures.

John Wolfe

John Wolfe

Co-founder and owner

  • Boston Consulting Group, Private Equity practice
  • Baltimore Ravens, analytics
  • Columbia Business School MBA
  • Princeton Varsity Sprint Football captain and NCAA record holder for career kick blocks (18)
  • Founder of ShirtFaced, the viral sports apparel brand

John built ShirtFaced around unforgettable moments that bring fans and players together. At Spark Labs he brings the same instinct to proving those moments are real.

The technology behind us

Spark Labs is independent and owned by Sean and John. It licenses the technology, exclusively for memorabilia, from two Princeton companies: the lab that invented the crystals and the manufacturer that makes them.

Invented by Intelligent Material Solutions

The Princeton lab that invented the crystals and grows them to a recipe. Its materials have protected banknotes for more than twenty years.

intelligentmaterial.com ↗ Made by NovaVera Corp.

Manufactures Intelligent Material® under exclusive license from IMS, ISO 9001 certified, on the RCA / Sarnoff campus in Princeton.

novaveracorp.com ↗
Owned by Sean Morey and John Wolfe Spark Labs

Their company, and the exclusive licensee for memorabilia, under license from NovaVera and IMS. Spark Labs runs the readers, the pens and the Forever library.

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