# Sara Barek

> Sara Barek is a seed investor at Oceans (New York) backing SaaS, Finance and Machine Learning. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Oceans](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oceans-9747)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarambarek/
- Website: https://oceans.ventures/team/

Sara Barek is a seed investor at Oceans in New York focused on SaaS and Finance. Sara Barek is the Managing Partner and Founding Team Member of Oceans. Sara attended Middlebury College.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Finance | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| dataroomHQ | dataroomHQ provides the blueprint for efficient growth, allowing SaaS companies to do more with less. Its platform delivers a single source of truth for all operational metrics, allowing business leaders to automate reporting, identify the best customers, prepare for capital raises, and use ML-powered predictions to optimize for the future. Thecompany is on a mission to help SaaS companies efficiently grow their business. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 06, 2024 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Garuda Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garuda-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [B5 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b5-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bling Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bling-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cortical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cortical-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Divide by Zero](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/divide-by-zero-2565) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Oceans

VC Fund · New York, United States

Oceans is a venture capital firm focusing on giving startups the hands-on support they need to succeed. They are a team that builds teams, a culture that shapes cultures, and a group of mentors who unlock skills and talent to build a future of technology. They help founders build the foundations that unlock the power of people.Oceans was foundedin 2018 and is headquartered in New York, USA.

5 contacts available at Oceans.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Glenn Handler | Co-Founder, General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glenn-handler |
| Henry Sherwood Caballero | Marketing and Client Services Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henry-sherwood-caballero |
| Sara Barek | Managing Partner and Founding Team Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sara-barek |
| Steven Rosenblatt | Co-Founder, General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-rosenblatt |
| Brian Lew | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-lew |

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## FAQ

### What does Sara Barek invest in?

Sara Barek invests primarily in SaaS, Finance and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sara Barek last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sara Barek closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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