Sarah Fu

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

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

Investor

2015 - 2015

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