Sarah Smith

Managing Partner @ Sarah Smith Fund | Early-stage Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2021
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Board Observer
Dec 2021
Archive is a technology company that enables brands to launch and scale profitable resale businesses. We work with more than 50 global brands including The North Face, Oscar de la Renta, and New balance to develop innovative resale programs that keep products in use, while simultaneously bringing in a new revenue stream, building customer loyalty, and driving new customer acquisition. Our proprietary software includes both a customized, user-centric online marketplace site, as well as the underlying infrastructure and operations to power a brand’s global resale strategy.
Board Member
Dec 2020
Mathison is a platform for building more equitable and inclusive workplaces. We use technology to help organizations create, measure, and execute their DEI initiatives with a data-oriented approach. Companies use our platform to easily build and manage robust DEI strategies and transform their organization across the employee lifecycle, resulting in consistent, inclusive cultures with fair policies and more diverse representation.
Board Member
Jun 2020
Lime is the worlds largest shared electric vehicle company. We’re on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Our electric bikes and scooters have powered 400+ million rides in 250+ cities on 5 continents, replacing an estimated 100+ million car trips. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company and Fast Company Brand That Matters, we achieved a fully profitable year in 2022, becoming the first in our industry to reach this milestone.
Angel Investor and Limited Partner
Sep 2013
Various board memberships
Experience · 7 entries
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Investments (4)
Founder (1)
Board (3)
2022
Founder and Managing Partner
Oct 2022
Sarah Smith Fund is a differentiated early-stage fund focused on founder CEO impact. The fund invested $100K-$250K+ into pre-seed and seed stage companies across marketplaces, future of work, fintech, dev tools, and more. In return for allocation, founder CEOs get access to a proprietary CEO 360 review process and on-demand people operations office hours.
Senior Advisor
May 2022
BCV helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work. We invest in B2B software startups from seed to growth across our four domains of Fintech, Commerce, Apps, and Infra. For over 20 years and with over $10B under management, BCV has helped launch and commercialize more than 400 companies, including Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Moveworks, Rapid7, and Redis. BCV has offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, and Boston, and you can follow us on Twitter @BainCapVC.
2021
Board Observer
Dec 2021
Archive is a technology company that enables brands to launch and scale profitable resale businesses. We work with more than 50 global brands including The North Face, Oscar de la Renta, and New balance to develop innovative resale programs that keep products in use, while simultaneously bringing in a new revenue stream, building customer loyalty, and driving new customer acquisition. Our proprietary software includes both a customized, user-centric online marketplace site, as well as the underlying infrastructure and operations to power a brand’s global resale strategy.
2020
Board Member
Dec 2020
Mathison is a platform for building more equitable and inclusive workplaces. We use technology to help organizations create, measure, and execute their DEI initiatives with a data-oriented approach. Companies use our platform to easily build and manage robust DEI strategies and transform their organization across the employee lifecycle, resulting in consistent, inclusive cultures with fair policies and more diverse representation.
Board Member
Jun 2020
Lime is the worlds largest shared electric vehicle company. We’re on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Our electric bikes and scooters have powered 400+ million rides in 250+ cities on 5 continents, replacing an estimated 100+ million car trips. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company and Fast Company Brand That Matters, we achieved a fully profitable year in 2022, becoming the first in our industry to reach this milestone.
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