Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Sarah Tavel is a General Partner at Benchmark where she invests in consumer businesses, consumerization of IT, and the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Sarah led Benchmark's investment and currently sits on the boards of Chainalysis and Hipcamp. She is also a founding member of All Raise, the nonprofit organization working to accelerate the success of women in the venture capital and VC-backed startup ecosystem.

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a General Partner at Greylock Partners, where she led their investment in Sonder and Gixo, and served on the boards of both companies. Sarah was also Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners, where she sourced the firm’s investment in Pinterest before joining the company as one of their first 35 employees.

While at Pinterest, Sarah served as product lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality, and also led the company through a period of hyper-growth, including international launch and several acquisitions.

Sarah Tavel studied at Harvard University with a degree in Philosophy.