Sarah Smith
Partner @ Bain Capital Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Sarah Smith is a pre-seed and seed stage investor focused on increasing CEO leadership impact. She primarily funds companies building marketplaces, fintech, future of work applications, and dev tools. Previously, Sarah was an investor with Bain Capital Ventures, Graph Ventures, and helped found F7 Ventures. At Bain Capital Ventures, she oversaw thefunding of over 50 early-stage emerging managers. Sarah has operating and executive experience scaling various global teams at Meta (Facebook) and Quora. She currently sits on the boards of Lime and Archive Resale. Sarah has degrees from Stanford University and University of Wisconsin-Madison and is based in Menlo Park with her husband and two kids. She volunteers for All Raise, teaches at Stanford, and can often be found playing strategy board games, eating tacos, or thrifting.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 35%
Last updated:
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Industries Sarah Smith invests in
Stages Sarah Smith invests in
Countries Sarah Smith invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 4 (24%)
- Software 3 (18%)
- Mobile Apps 3 (18%)
- SaaS 2 (12%)
- Internet 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (47%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (18%)
- Series A 2 (12%)
- Series C 1 (6%)
- Series D 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 12 (71%)
- Mexico 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| howie an email-based scheduling assistant, uses artificial intelligence to automate the scheduling and rescheduling of your meetings. | $6M / Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Grupago is pioneering digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America, leveraging artificial intelligence, group collateral and community distribution to extend credit to micro-SMBs across the region who have been shut out of traditional SMB lending avenues. | $4.3M / Seed / Mar 12, 2024 | ||
| Talofa is building games that make players mentally and physically healthier. Their flagship game on the platform, Run Legends, got over 300,000 downloads in the first 3 months and was featured as one of the "Best New Games" by Apple and Google Play Stores. Talofa’s team has been built up with game veterans from EA, 2K, and Riot Games andthe CEO, Jenny Xu, has created mobile games with over 10M downloads. | $6.3M / Seed / Jan 18, 2024 | ||
| Bandana operates as a people-first online job platform. | $3.8M / Seed / Sep 06, 2023 | ||
| Pinnacle is an AI executive coach. Pinnacle provides coaching, career planning, personalized learning, and automated manager tools that fit seamlessly in the flow of work in Slack & MS Teams. We're used by the world's most people-centric businesses to support their employees at scale. | Pre-Seed / Jul 31, 2023 | ||
| Archive is a technology company that builds customized resale programs for brands to take ownership of their secondhand markets. We work with brands such as The North Face, Oscar de la Renta, and Marimekko to create bespoke, authentic resale experiences that keep clothing in wear longer, while simultaneously bringing in a new revenue stream,building customer loyalty, and driving new customer acquisition. Our world-class technology and design teams offer infinite flexibility to build a unique experience tailored to each brand, and our logistics expertise enables a variety of resale models including peer-to-peer, take-back, returns, and brand-owned inventory. | $15M / Series A / Dec 06, 2022 | ||
| Disclo is a HIPAA compliant platform enabling employers to collect, verify, and manage employee health disclosures and accommodation requests. Disclo helps employees secure the enhancements and protections they need to succeed in their careers without having to disclose their underlying medical condition to their employer. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Aug 03, 2022 | ||
| Mathison is the first all-inclusive technology for diversity hiring and retention. Our platform delivers top-of-funnel diversity sourcing, a system to reduce bias in the hiring process, and tools to mobilize the entire team around diversity hiring efforts. Mathison is leveraged by leading brands from Accenture, Sonos and TripAdvisor to 23andMe andHelloFresh. | $25M / Series A / Mar 14, 2022 | ||
| Archive is a technology company that builds customized resale programs for brands to take ownership of their secondhand markets. We work with brands such as The North Face, Oscar de la Renta, and Marimekko to create bespoke, authentic resale experiences that keep clothing in wear longer, while simultaneously bringing in a new revenue stream,building customer loyalty, and driving new customer acquisition. Our world-class technology and design teams offer infinite flexibility to build a unique experience tailored to each brand, and our logistics expertise enables a variety of resale models including peer-to-peer, take-back, returns, and brand-owned inventory. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Jan 25, 2022 | ||
| Specto is a mobile application performance monitoring platform that collects vital metrics and profiles with just a few lines of code. It is built by developers for developers and strives for easy and transparent integration while providing hands-on support when needed. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $3.3M / Seed / Jun 11, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Bain Capital Ventures
With over $10B under management, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) offers distinctive access to Bain Capital's broader industry expertise and portfolio of companies. For over 20 years, BCV has invested from seed through IPO and acquisition, backing more than 400 companies including Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Moveworks, Redis, Rubrik and ShipBob.
Bain Capital Ventures Contacts
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Benjamin Nye
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Michael Krupka
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Paul Zurlo
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Ron Miasnik
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Sarah Smith invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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