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Sarah Tavel

General Partner at Benchmark

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Sarah Tavel is a General Partner at Benchmark in San Francisco, known for her successful investments in companies like Poparazzi and Chainalysis. She has a strong background in venture capital and product management, previously holding roles at Greylock Partners and Pinterest before joining Benchmark.

Work Experience 

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Benchmark

  • General Partner

    2017 - Current

    Board member for Chainalysis, Hipcamp, Medely, Rekki, Glide, Cambly, 11x, Agentio. One of the last investments I led was via a cold email from a founder, so don't hesitate to reach out. I can't guarantee a response, but promise I will read it. I am sarah at benchmark dot com.

Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.

benchmark.com
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Greylock Partners

  • General Partner

    2015 - 2017

    While at Greylock, I led Greylock's investments in Sonder (Series B, IPO $SOND) and Gixo (Seed, acq. by Beachbody), and represented Greylock on the board of both companies.

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.

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Pinterest

  • Product Manager

    2012 - 2015

    Joined as a "utility player" before we had product managers, and became the first PM at Pinterest. Founding PM for our search and discovery, pin quality, and visual search (our computer vision team) teams. In this role, shipped dozens of search features and quality improvements, the first recommendations on Pinterest (related pins, picked for you), trending searches, verified accounts, link quality score, user blocking, user reporting, private boards, etc. I also led three acquisitions, launched us internationally, and was responsible for closing our $100m Series C financing.

Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.

Raised $1,486,100,000.00 from Elliott Investment Management and Elliott Investment Management.

pinterest.com
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Bessemer Venture Partners

  • Vice President

    2006 - 2012

    Convertro (acq), CPower (acq), Cornerstone OnDemand (IPO), Diapers.com/Quidsi (acq), KupiVIP, Metalogix (acq), MindBody (IPO), Onestop Internet, Pinterest (IPO), and Yodle (acq).

BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.

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The Kerdan Group

  • Consultant

    2005 - 2006

    Strategy consultant in start up firm specializing in life sciences.

Education 

Investments 

Poparazzi

Series A

Total funding: $15M

Supergreat

Series A

Total funding: $30M

Chainalysis

Series A

Total funding: $370M

TTYL

Series A

Total funding: $20M

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