Sarah Fu
Investor at Various Startups
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Startup Advisor and Angel Investor
2021 - Current
Invest in and partner with startups building in fintech, SaaS, and GenAI.
Founder
2023 - 2024
CEO and co-founder of a fintech startup.
Corporate Strategy and Finance Leader
2020 - 2022
- Advised CEO, President and CFO on market and financial insight; delivered analysis for Stripe's executive team during the 10-year-strategic-planning - Led business-critical fundraising including Series H ($600M), Series I ($6.5B) and a large debt financing - Played a core role in public company readiness and led a 20-people cross-functional team across comms, marketing, legal, accounting, and finance for the quarterly earnings process - Founded a finance and business internal newsletter and grew subscriber to 1,000+ Stripe employees
Head of Finance & Strategy, Stripe Connect
2018 - 2020
- Member of Leadership Team of Stripe's flagship product, representing around half of Stripe's total volume - Delivered one of Stripe's best-ever product business reviews and long-range strategy plans, as recognized by the CEO and CPO - Co-led the development of product and monetization strategies together with Business Lead and Head of Product - Owned monthly business and financial reviews, forecasting and reporting
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.
Investor
2016 - 2018
- Oversaw over $8 billion of investments in public companies on behalf of Fidelity - Lead Fidelity's investments in financial services, business services, information and data services companies - Offered promotion to Portfolio Manager of a fund with multi-hundred-million-dollar AUM - Investment picks generated 800 bps alpha (over S&P 500) during my tenure
Fidelity is a privately-owned investment manager focusing on a diverse set of customers.
Raised $152,825,000.00.
Investor
2015 - 2015
T. Rowe Price is an investment management firm that focuses on funding technology startups.
Corporate Development
2015 - 2015
Researched and sourced investment opportunities for Axel Springer's corporate VC arm
Technology Investment Banking
2011 - 2014
Took Alibaba public (largest U.S. IPO ever), and executed ~10 transactions across M&As, equity and debt financing for leading Internet, software, gaming and semiconductor companies
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.