Sarah Guo

Co-Founder

United States16 yrs 11 mos experience
AI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI-native startup investments
  • Strong track record from idea to IPO
  • Experienced in venture capital and entrepreneurship
Stackforce AI infers this person is a venture capital expert specializing in AI-driven startups.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalEntrepreneurshipFinancial ModelingCorporate FinanceTeachingMarketing Strategy

Other Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)SoftwareStart-upsMergers & AcquisitionsSaaSBusiness StrategyProduct ManagementProduct MarketingInfrastructureGPUAnalyticsCorporate DevelopmentEnterprise SoftwareNetwork SecuritySales

About

I'm a startup investor partnering with entrepreneurs from idea to IPO. I’m excited about AI-native, “software 3.0” startups. I work closely with founders on whatever moves the needle to help them achieve and expand their ambitions. conviction.com (fund) no-priors.com (🎙 podcast) Find me on X @saranormous or send me an email: sarah @ conviction.com

Experience

16 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Onyx security

Board Director, Series A Investor

Feb 2026Present · 4 mos

  • the AI control plane for enterprises

Stealth robotics company

Board Director, Seed Investor

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Distributed spectrum

Board Director, Series A Investor

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • AI electronic warfare platform that gives every warfighter real-time understanding of RF
  • we're hiring: https://jobs.gem.com/distributed-spectrum

Openevidence

Investor

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • the leading medical information platform

Latent

Board Director, Series A Investor

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Scaling medication access with clinical AI

Sunday

Board Director, Seed Investor

May 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • the helpful robotics company. we’re hiring: Sunday.ai

Sierra

Seed Investor

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.

Sola

Seed Investor

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • intelligent process automation

Heygen

Board Director, Seed Investor

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Los Angeles, CA

  • Effortlessly produce studio quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices. We're hiring in all roles: https://boards.greenhouse.io/heygen

Harvey

Seed Investor

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • legal AI

Voyage ai

Founding Investor, Seed

Aug 2023Feb 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • embeddings and neural retrieval research, founded by Tengyu Ma and Hong Liu. acquired by MongoDB

Conviction

Investor, Founder

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • A modern, early-stage venture capital firm, purpose-built for Software 3.0
  • http://www.conviction.com
Artificial Intelligence (AI)SoftwareEntrepreneurshipVenture CapitalStart-ups

Greylock

3 roles

Board Partner

Jun 2022Present · 4 yrs

General Partner

May 2018Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Investor

Jul 2013May 2018 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Learned about investing from some of the best

0x labs

Board Director, Series B

Apr 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · On the chain

  • building toward a future where value flows freely!
  • 0x Protocol is decentralized exchange infrastructure
  • 0x API is the liquidity endpoint for DeFi
  • Matcha.xyz is the search engine for trades and tokens

Uplimit (formerly corise)

Seed Investor

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • AI-first professional learning

Glue

Board Director, Series A

Dec 2021Nov 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Seattle, remote

  • Helping people be happier and feel more connected at work.

Dazz

Seed Investor

Jun 2021Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Tel Aviv, Israel

  • cloud security remediation, acquired by Wiz for $450M

Common room

Board Director, Series B

Mar 2021Jul 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Seattle, remote

  • the customer journey platform

Postscript

Board Director, Series B

Mar 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · remote

  • giving Shopify merchants a powerful, easy-to-use SMS platform 🤩

Multi

Board Director, Series A

Jul 2020Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos · remote

  • Making any app multiplayer, acquired by OpenAI

Shortcut

Board Director, Series B

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · NY, remote

  • the collaborative home for software development

Baseten

Board Director, Seed Investor

Dec 2019Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • the inference platform for the worlds best AI companies

Neeva

Investor, Series A

Jun 2019May 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • ad-free, private search, from the former leaders of Google Ads and YouTube Ads. Acquired by Snowflake

Snorkel ai

Investor, Seed & Series A

Apr 2019Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • In Snorkel Flow, users programmatically label, build, and augment training data to drive a radically faster, more flexible, and higher quality end-to-end AI development and deployment process.

Stackblitz

Seed Investor

Jan 2019Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

  • enable anyone to code, in the web, with AI

Utmost

Board Director, Series A

Dec 2018Oct 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area, Dublin, remote

  • the extended workforce cloud - for a more flexible, global and distributed future. acquired by Beeline.

Cortex by palo alto networks

Board Director, Series C

Aug 2018Apr 2019 · 8 mos · Cupertino, CA and Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Cortex (fka as Demisto) is the leading Security Operations Platform - the integration hub, automation & orchestration engine for security teams that's as easy to use as Slack and as powerful as the command line. Greylock led Series C, acquired by Palo Alto Networks

Sqreen

Board Director, Series A

May 2018Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area, Paris, remote

  • the developer-first Application Security Management company. acquired by Datadog

Cleo

Board Director, Series A

Dec 2017Present · 8 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area, remote

  • the support system for caregivers

Obsidian security

2 roles

Board Director, Founding Investor

Oct 2017Apr 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • defend SaaS applications from compromise

Board Director, Series A

May 2017Apr 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • The pioneer in Cloud Detection and Response (CDR), the core of a modern SaaS security strategy. We're hiring: https://www.obsidiansecurity.com/

Coda

Board Observer, Series A

May 2016Dec 2024 · 8 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, remote

  • Coda enables anyone to make a doc as powerful as an app, founded by Shishir Mehrotra and Alex DeNeui. now joined with Grammarly under the banner of Superhuman

Figma

Series A Investor

Nov 2014Present · 11 yrs 7 mos

  • Closing the gap between imagination and reality.

Awake security

Board Observer, Series A

Nov 2014Sep 2020 · 5 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Autonomous network traffic analysis. Greylock incubated company, acquired by Arista Networks

Skyhigh networks

Board Observer, Series A

Mar 2014Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Cupertino, CA

  • The pioneer of the Cloud Access Security Broker category. Acquired by McAfee

Avi networks

Board Observer, Series A

Feb 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

  • software-defined application services for your private or public cloud. acquired by VMWare

Goldman sachs

Technology Investment Banking / Principal Investing

Jan 2011Jan 2013 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Invested in Dropbox
  • Took Workday public
  • Led Goldman’s private company coverage efforts: helped startup tech companies hone their financial/user/gtm models and position themselves for the public markets
  • Worked with clients including Twitter, Netflix, Zynga, and Nvidia in M&A, strategy, activism defense, etc.

The wharton school

Taught Marketing

Jan 2010Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Philadelphia, PA

  • Head teaching assistant for Wharton's required core marketing course. Managed team of 10 graduate teaching assistants teaching all Wharton undergraduate students. Personal focus on positioning, pricing and packaging, and efficient distribution strategy, especially for initial technology product go-to-market. Top rated TA by students across the department. Loved to learn from students :)
Financial ModelingMergers & AcquisitionsCorporate Finance

Casa systems, inc.

Startup Stuff

Jan 2009Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · Andover, MA

  • Casa Systems builds revolutionary solutions that enable network operators to provide fast, flexible and universal connectivity for subscribers at home, at work or on the go. Our passion is fueled by our vision of an ultra-broadband future. IPO 2017
TeachingMarketing Strategy

Education

The Wharton School

Lauder Institute

The Wharton School

Phillips Academy

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