Sarah Smith

About

If you had told me in 2000 that I would be investing millions of dollars into private, early-stage companies, I would have been baffled. At the time, I had just graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and was about to start my career as an elementary music teacher. Through many twists of fate, I landed in the Bay Area in 2001 and have since gained decades of company building experience from places like Meta/Facebook, Quora, Bain Capital Ventures, Graph Ventures, BCG, and Stanford GSB. Currently, I sit on the boards of Lime and Archive Resale and am active in the Stanford community teaching ENGR 245: Lean Launchpad and hosting GSB venture fellows each summer. I started the Sarah Smith Fund in late 2022 as a rolling fund and made 13 investments before launching the current Fund 1.

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