# Sarah Drinkwater

> Sarah Drinkwater is a seed investor at Omidyar Network (London) backing Software and Communities. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Omidyar Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omidyar-network)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sarahdrinkwater
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sarahdrinkwater

Sarah Drinkwater is a seed investor at Omidyar Network in London focused on Software and Communities. The Tech and Society Solutions Lab draws on Omidyar Network’s long-standing belief in the promise of technology to create opportunity and social good, and works to invest and co-create in tech, programs and initiatives that helps the industry maximize its positive impact. Previously, Sarah headed up Campus London, Google's space forr startups, established and led a global community team for Google Maps, consulted for startups and big brands on community, content and social, and was a journalist.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $750k–$3.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Communities | 3 | 38% |
| Apps | 2 | 25% |
| Fashion | 2 | 25% |
| Internet | 2 | 25% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 38% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 38% |
| France | 1 | 13% |
| Sweden | 1 | 13% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Odin | Odin enables seamless fundraising from your network in just a few clicks, taking care of all legal and administrative tasks. The platform collaborates with founders, angel syndicates, and emerging fund managers worldwide. It supports investors from almost any location, manages SPVs, handles complex carried interest arrangements, and more. Futureplans include enabling users to raise entire funds on Odin (not just deal-by-deal SPVs) and providing a feature for discovering and joining investment clubs directly through the platform. | $3.1M | Seed | Dec 31, 2023 |  |
| Mailchain | Mailchain is the new communication layer for Web3. With one simple, elegant inbox, users can send and receive private messages using public blockchain addresses. Teams and individuals can receive notifications about their on-chain activity and communicate with any identity, on any protocol.  Projects, DAOs, exchanges and protocols integratingMailchain can directly communicate with their users, wallet-to-wallet. | $4.6M | Seed | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Otterspace | Otterspace is an NFT company that aims to use earned NFTs rather than purchased NFTs to reward and recognize participation in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Its non-transferable badge protocol assists DAOs in developing more effective incentive systems, automating permissions, and enabling non-financialized governance. | $3.7M | Pre-Seed | Jun 13, 2022 |  |
| Liberare (Formerly Intimately) | Liberare specializes in providing disabled women with e-tailer adaptive undergarments. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Liberare (Formerly Intimately) | Liberare specializes in providing disabled women with e-tailer adaptive undergarments. | $1M | Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Lucky Sweater | Lucky Sweater is a community app that makes it easy & fun for people with shared passions to buy, sell, trade together. Reddit for commerce. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Anyone | Anyone is an app that gives you five minutes of anyone’s time. A community marketplace, it makes it possible for anyone to share their knowledge and lived experience – either to get paid or to pay it forward. Founded in Sweden, Anyone is a hybrid remote company with team members in Stockholm, London, Paris and New York. | $4.3M | Seed | Jul 15, 2021 |  |
| Panion | Panion is a community-building tool that helps companies, schools, and organizations facilitate more social interactions amongst its members. The platform is entirely keyword searchable and filterable so members are able to search for each other based on common interests, values, goals or experiences and even narrow their searches by location,gender, age, language and much more. Members and admins can propose spontaneous events within the network and form social groups around an interest. Community admins are given a dashboard of analytics to track trends in their community and send segmented messages based on interest and location. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 15, 2020 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [British Fashion Council](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/british-fashion-council) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Venrex](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venrex-investment-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amasia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amasia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atka Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atka-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Omidyar Network

VC Fund · Redwood City, United States

Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.

5 contacts available at Omidyar Network.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aviva Aminova | Associate General Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aviva-aminova |
| Allen Babaran | Director Of Information Technology | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allen-babaran |
| Andrew Brennen | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-brennen |
| Ashley Beckner | Principal, Education Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-beckner |
| Enyi Okebugwu | VC/Impact Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enyi-okebugwu |

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## FAQ

### What does Sarah Drinkwater invest in?

Sarah Drinkwater invests primarily in Software, Communities and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sarah Drinkwater's check size?

Sarah Drinkwater typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.6M at Seed and $750k–$3.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sarah Drinkwater participates in.

### When did Sarah Drinkwater last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sarah Drinkwater closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 8 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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