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About Sara
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Sara Ittelson
Partner at Accel
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Sara Ittelson is a Partner at Accel, with a background in strategic partnerships at Faire and global business development at Uber. She holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and has invested in notable companies like Syrup Tech and AssemblyAI.
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Accel is an seed and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Head of Strategic Partnerships
2019 - 2021
Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling. It’s a way of life that offers people a level of autonomy and fulfillment that’s become difficult to find elsewhere in our economy. We want to make sure their boldness and self-belief gets rewarded. Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. The Future is Local. If this mission calls to you, please reach out to me to learn more.
Faire is a marketplace and wholesale platform that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Raised $1,708,162,662.00 from Shopify.
Global Business Development
2015 - 2019
Product Partnerships | API Partnerships | Driver Partnerships | New Mobility Partnerships | Uber Eats Global Enterprise & Strategic Brand Partnerships
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Director of Global Business Development
2011 - 2015
Knewton is an adaptive learning technology provider with a mission to bring personalized education to the world.
Raised $182,250,017.00 from Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark and Atomico.
Chief of Staff to the Chief Performance Officer
2009 - 2010
Jamieson Elementary School is a high-performing neighborhood school, they promote genuine community-parent collaboration.
Raised $10,000.00 from It Gets Better Project.
Consultant
2007 - 2009
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity