Sarah Guo () is an American tech investor. She is the founder and managing partner at the venture capital firm Conviction and formerly a general partner at

Greylock Partners Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $3.5 billion under management. The firm focuses on early-stage companies in consumer and enterprise software. History Greylock wa ...

Early life and education

Guo grew up in Wisconsin to Chinese immigrant parents. Her parents worked for

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, commonly referred to as ''Bell Labs'', is an American industrial research and development company owned by Finnish technology company Nokia. With headquarters located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Murray Hill, New Jersey, the compa ...

. After attending

Phillips Academy Phillips Academy (also known as PA, Phillips Academy Andover, or simply Andover) is a Private school, private, Mixed-sex education, co-educational college-preparatory school for Boarding school, boarding and Day school, day students located in ...

, she graduated from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

and its

Wharton School The Wharton School ( ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton ...

. She received a

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, a

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, a

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular ...

(M.B.A.), and a

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from the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Guo initially worked at Casa Systems, a cloud networking company started by her parents, which launched in 2003 and went public in 2017. She then worked at

Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered in Lower Manhattan in New York City, with regional headquarters in many internationa ...

. In 2013 Guo joined

, Whilst still in her twenties she became the firm's youngest General Partner. Guo left Greylock, and in October 2022 launched a new early-stage venture capital firm focused on AI, Conviction. with a second fund in late 2024 with

Mike Vernal Mike Vernal (born September 7, 1980) is an American business executive who is a venture capitalist at Conviction. He was previously an investor at Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley and was one of the top executives at Facebook between 2008 and 2016 ...

. Conviction's investments include early investments in Harvey_(software),

Cognition AI Cognition AI, Inc. (also known as Cognition Labs), doing business as Cognition, is an artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco in the US State of California. The company developed Devin AI, an AI software developer. T ...

, Sierra,

HeyGen HeyGen is a generative artificial intelligence company that creates photo-realistic avatars via user-submitted photos and videos as well as a library of pre-made avatars and voices. The digital avatar can recite prompts in multiple languages. W ...

, and

Mistral AI Mistral AI SAS () is a French artificial intelligence (AI) startup, headquartered in Paris. Founded in 2023, it specializes in open-weight large language models (LLMs), with both open-source and proprietary AI models. Namesake The company is ...

. Guo is on the Midas Seed list of top investors. She appears in media outlets as an expert in AI, infrastructure, business software, cybersecurity, and software engineering. She co-hosts the podcast No Priors with tech founder and super angel Elad Gil.

Personal life

Guo is married to Pat Grady, a senior partner at

Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, specializing in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors. the firm had appro ...

. They have 2 daughters.

References

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