Where does Sarah Tavel work?

Sarah Tavel is Venture Partner at Benchmark and Benchmark director at Agentio and Benchmark general partner and Series A board member at Huddle Labs and Board director at Chainalysis.

What check size does Sarah Tavel write?

Sarah Tavel typically writes checks of $4M – $30M.

What boards does Sarah Tavel sit on?

Sarah Tavel holds tracked board seats at Agentio, Chainalysis, Hipcamp, Huddle Labs.

What companies has Sarah Tavel invested in?

Investments tracked here include 11x, 11x AI, Agentio, Cambly, Chainalysis, Eigen, Hipcamp, Medely, Paparazzi, Poparazzi, Supergreat, TTYL, and 1 more.

Where did Sarah Tavel go to school?

Sarah Tavel studied at Harvard University (A.B., Philosophy (cum laude)); Stuyvesant High School.

What podcasts and interviews feature Sarah Tavel?

Tracked appearances include "The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)", "Becoming AI Native with Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel", "The Next AI Wave Will Be Social, Not Solo | Sarah Tavel, Benchmark and ex-Pinterest", and 7 more.

Sarah Tavel

Investor

Venture Partner at Benchmark · Benchmark director at Agentio · Benchmark general partner and Series A board member at Huddle Labs · Board director at Chainalysis

San Francisco, CA

Writes $4M – $30M checks · typically $12M

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734 people in our graph share verified history with Sarah — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

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About

Sarah Tavel joined Benchmark in 2017 as the firm's first woman general partner, backing Chainalysis, Hipcamp, and 11x, and transitioned to a venture partner role in 2025 to spend more time exploring AI. Earlier she was a product leader at Pinterest and a partner at Greylock. She writes a widely read newsletter on marketplaces, consumer products, and AI.

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Invests in

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSocial

Benchmark director at Agentio

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Agentio's investors · 9

AlleyCorpNew York · $1M – $5M checks · since 2023 AntlerSingapore · $3M – $10M checks · since 2023 Antler AustraliaSydney · $3M – $10M checks Backwards CapitalNew York BenchmarkSan Francisco · $100K – $30M checks · since 2025 Craft VenturesSan Francisco · $50K – $50M checks · since 2023 Forerunner VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checks · since 2025 ProtagonistBay Harbor Islands · $10K – $1M checks Starting LineChicago · $750K – $2M checks · since 2023

Co-founders at Agentio

Arthur LeopoldCo-Founder and CEO

Jonathan MeyersCo-Founder and CTO

Benchmark general partner and Series A board member at Huddle Labs

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Huddle Labs's investors · 7

BenchmarkSan Francisco · $100K – $30M checks · since 2021 GreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks · since 2021 K5 GlobalSan Francisco · $1M – $3M checks · since 2020 ShopifyOttawa · since 2021 Shrug CapitalSunnyvale · $100K – $3M checks · since 2021 Third Kind Venture CapitalNew York · $50K – $5M checks · since 2021 Thrive CapitalNew York · $500K – $25M checks · since 2017

Co-founders at Huddle Labs

Tyler FauxCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Dan BlackmanCo-founder and design leader

Board director at Chainalysis

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Chainalysis's investors · 32

9Yards CapitalNew York · $100K – $10M checks AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks · since 2021 AdditionNew York · $1M – $500M checks · since 2020 AlbionVCLondon ArchetypeNew York · $100K – $10M checks BenchmarkSan Francisco · $100K – $30M checks · since 2021 Blackstonesince 2021 BNY MellonNew York · since 2022 Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks Communitas Capital PartnersNew York ConvergeCambridge · $500K – $5M checks · since 2017 Digital Currency GroupNew York Emergence Capitalsince 2022 Emergence Capital PartnersSan Francisco · $500K – $10M checks FundersClubSan Francisco · $250K – $5M checks · since 2017 GICSingapore · since 2021 Haun VenturesSilicon Valley · $1M – $100M checks HOF CapitalNew York · $25K – $15M checks MUFGLondon · since 2026 NycaNew York · $2M checks Nyca PartnersNew York · $1M – $10M checks ParadigmSan Francisco · $1M – $100M checks · since 2021 Point NineBerlin · $1M – $10M checks · since 2017 Premji InvestMenlo Park Ribbit CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $15M checks · since 2020 Sequoia Heritagesince 2021 Sound VenturesSanta Monica · since 2020 Sozo VenturesRedwood City · since 2026 SV AngelSan Francisco TechstarsBoulder · $220K checks · since 2017 Vanedge CapitalVancouver · $1M – $15M checks Vanedge Capital Limited PartnershipVancouver

Co-founders at Chainalysis

Jonathan LevinCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Michael GronagerCo-founder; former Chief Executive Officer and board-level leader

Jan MøllerCo-founder and scientific/engineering leader

Experience

BenchmarkPartnercurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Greylock PartnersGeneral Partner2015 — 2017
PinterestProduct Manager2012 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
Bessemer Venture PartnersVice President2006 — 2012menlo park, ca
The Kerdan GroupConsultant2005 — 2006

Skills & more

Venture Capital49Entrepreneurship41Product Management36Start-ups99Business Strategy19Business Development11Strategic Partnerships43Product Development5Cloud Computing5New Business Development2Competitive Analysis5E-commerce16

+12 more

MarketingMarketing StrategyMobile ApplicationsMergers & AcquisitionsMobile DevicesAnalyticsGo-to-market StrategyAngel InvestingSaaSEnterprise SoftwareStrategyInvestments

From Sarah's professional profile.

Deals · 4

AgentioBoard seat

via Benchmark · filed Nov 2025 · $40M raise

Huddle LabsBoard seat

via Benchmark · filed Jul 2021 · $22.4M raise

ChainalysisBoard seat

via Benchmark · filed Apr 2021 · $100M raise

HipcampBoard seat

via Benchmark · filed Aug 2019 · $25M raise

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

Other disclosed investments

Investor

11x11x AICamblyEigenMedelyPaparazziPoparazziSupergreatTTYLWealthfront

Sources: SEC Form D filings · curated public sources.

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Sarah Tavel

The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)

Lenny's Podcast

Becoming AI Native with Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel

OpenLP from Sapphire Partners

The Next AI Wave Will Be Social, Not Solo | Sarah Tavel, Benchmark and ex-Pinterest

Every

Benchmark GP Sarah Tavel Says This is What Startups Need to do to Survive | Invested

Aleph

Why Benchmark is Different Than Other Firms with Sarah Tavel & Eric Vishria

Turpentine VC

BENCHMARK VC: SaaS Companies Are In Trouble l Sarah Tavel on SaaS & AI

World of DaaS with Auren Hoffman

4 more appearances

Writing

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Sarah Tavel has recently written about consumer AI's potential compared to the mobile wave, and about becoming an AI-native company through a two-part interview with Rekki's CTO covering empowering non-engineers to code and the tradeoffs of AI-generated code.

Will AI be as big of a catalyst for a consumer AI wave as mobile?2025-09-03

Argues consumer AI will be a smaller wave than mobile because it can't expand digital minutes the way mobile did, with more opportunity in utility-style apps.»

The benefits of writing code two days every week without AI, and why the percentage of code written by AI is a vanity metric2025-08-20

Shares Rekki CTO Borislav's view that coding without AI two days weekly keeps engineering judgment sharp, and explains why reviewing LLM-generated code lacks a human theory of mind.

An AI "Metamorphosis": Transforming into an AI-native company2025-05-19

Interviews Rekki CTO Borislav on becoming AI-native by enabling every employee to code, shifting the CTO role toward building internal infrastructure and primitives that let staff solve their own problems.

Colleagues at Benchmark

Alex Balkanski

General Partner at Benchmark

Alexander Bruehl

Investor at Point Nine Capital

An-Yen Hu

General Partner at Benchmark

Bruce Dunlevie

Benchmark co-founder, long-duration board investor and CarbonDrop chief executive

Chetan Puttagunta

General Partner at Benchmark

Eric Vishria

General Partner at Benchmark

Ev Randle

Partner at Kleiner Perkins

George Hu

Venture Partner at Benchmark

Network1

Claire Hughes Johnson

Corporate Officer, Stripe at Operator Collective

Investors connected to Sarah in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Sarah Tavel?: Sarah Tavel joined Benchmark in 2017 as the firm's first woman general partner, backing Chainalysis, Hipcamp, and 11x, and transitioned to a venture partner role in 2025 to spend more time exploring AI. Earlier she was a product leader at Pinterest and a partner at Greylock. She writes a widely read newsletter on marketplaces, consumer products, and AI.
Where does Sarah Tavel work?: Sarah Tavel is Venture Partner at Benchmark and Benchmark director at Agentio and Benchmark general partner and Series A board member at Huddle Labs and Board director at Chainalysis.
What does Sarah Tavel invest in?: Sarah Tavel invests in AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Social.
What check size does Sarah Tavel write?: Sarah Tavel typically writes checks of $4M – $30M.
What boards does Sarah Tavel sit on?: Sarah Tavel holds tracked board seats at Agentio, Chainalysis, Hipcamp, Huddle Labs.
What companies has Sarah Tavel invested in?: Investments tracked here include 11x, 11x AI, Agentio, Cambly, Chainalysis, Eigen, Hipcamp, Medely, Paparazzi, Poparazzi, Supergreat, TTYL, and 1 more.
Where did Sarah Tavel go to school?: Sarah Tavel studied at Harvard University (A.B., Philosophy (cum laude)); Stuyvesant High School.
What has Sarah Tavel written?: Sarah Tavel has 3 tracked posts on sarahtavel.com, including "Will AI be as big of a catalyst for a consumer AI wave as mobile?", "The benefits of writing code two days every week without AI, and why the percentage of code written by AI is a vanity metric", "An AI "Metamorphosis": Transforming into an AI-native company".
What podcasts and interviews feature Sarah Tavel?: Tracked appearances include "The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)", "Becoming AI Native with Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel", "The Next AI Wave Will Be Social, Not Solo | Sarah Tavel, Benchmark and ex-Pinterest", and 7 more.