# Sarah Guo-Grady

> Sarah Guo-Grady is a seed investor at Conviction backing Software and Information Technology. See 60 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Conviction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conviction-partners)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 60
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahxguo
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/saranormous
- Website: https://x.com/saranormous
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahxguo

Sarah Guo-Grady is a seed investor at Conviction in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Information Technology. Sarah Guo is based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and is the Founder and Investor of Conviction Partners. Sarah previously worked at Coda as a Board Observer. Sarah Guo attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 28% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 17% |
| Internet | 5 | 8% |
| Cyber Security | 5 | 8% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 28% |
| Series A | 12 | 20% |
| Series B | 6 | 10% |
| Series C | 5 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 27 | 45% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Ireland | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Obsidian Security | Led by former founding team members of Cylance and Carbon Black, Obsidian Security is a Southern California technology company living at the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and hybrid-cloud environments. Backed by Greylock Partners, Obsidian Security is based in Newport Beach, CA. | $85M | Series D | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Intelligence.AI | Intelligence.AI provides AI-driven recruiting software focused on hiring software developers. Its platform helps recruiters discover developers who are not visible through traditional sourcing channels. Intelligence.AI supports evaluating technical candidates without deep technical knowledge by validating skills beyond resumes. The software assistswith engaging candidates using personalized outreach and messaging. It is designed to help recruiting teams scale sourcing and screening while reducing manual effort. | $7.9M | Seed | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Onyx Security | Onyx Security enables organizations via a holistic platform to adopt AI and AI agents with confidence - without compromising security. | $113M | Series B | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Enigma | Enigma develops artificial intelligence software and robotics technologies that enable intuitive interaction between humans and robotic systems. The company builds robotics foundation models, machine learning systems, and software infrastructure that support perception, planning, and autonomous task execution across a range of robotic platforms.Its technology includes hardware-agnostic software layers that allow AI models to operate across different robot types without requiring platform-specific development.Enigma also develops tools for human-robot interaction, simulation, and model training to improve robot adaptability and performance in dynamic environments. The company conducts research in physical AI, embodied intelligence, and robotics software to advance autonomous systems for industrial, commercial, and research applications. It collaborates with technology partners and research organizations to evaluate and expand the use of its AI models and robotics platform across multiple use cases. | $71M | Seed | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| Baseten | Baseten provides a platform for training, deploying, and serving artificial intelligence models in production environments. It supports open-source, fine-tuned, and custom models, converting them into API endpoints with capabilities such as autoscaling, observability, and optimized model serving. The platform manages infrastructure componentsincluding containerization, GPU scheduling across multiple cloud providers, and performance optimizations to support large-scale inference workloads. Baseten also offers preconfigured model APIs and deployment options that can run either on its managed cloud service or within a customer's own environment. Its tools are designed to help developers build, manage, and scale AI applications while maintaining flexibility in how models are hosted and executed. | $1.5B | Series F | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Collate | Collate creates and streamlines documentation for drug development, medical device, and diagnostic companies from concept to market using artificial intelligence. They produce accurate documentation for the life sciences industry, which speeds up innovations that can save lives. | $95M | Series A | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| Nova Intelligence | Nova Intelligence is the leading agentic AI platform for SAP teams. Our AI agents help enterprises document and understand custom code, reduce complexity by leveraging SAP standard whenever possible, and modernize and build new applications—all with Clean Core compliant, upgrade-safe principles. SAP teams using Nova double their productivity. Theteam behind Nova includes the co-inventor of SAP HANA, an AI researcher from Google DeepMind, and the former CIO of Cargill. The company is backed by SAP's investment arm and top Silicon Valley VCs. | $31.5M | Series A | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Onyx Security | Onyx Security enables organizations via a holistic platform to adopt AI and AI agents with confidence - without compromising security. | $35M | Series A | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Sunday | Sunday introduce Memo: a household robot capable of doing everyday chores. | $165M | Series B | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Wabi | Wabi engages as a social platform where anyone can quickly create tiny apps using instructions. | $20M | Pre-Seed | Nov 05, 2025 |  |

10 of 60 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Cyberstarts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyberstarts) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Conviction

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Conviction operates as a venture capital firm.

2 contacts available at Conviction.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sarah Guo-Grady | Founder and Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sarah-guo |
| Mike Vernal | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-vernal |

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## FAQ

### What does Sarah Guo-Grady invest in?

Sarah Guo-Grady invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 60 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 Sarah Guo-Grady last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sarah Guo-Grady closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 60 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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