AngelList
Confidential
2023
Nov. 8 - Nov. 10
Virtual Sessions
SF + NY Happy Hours
Three days of inspiring, insightful discussion exploring the new frontier for innovation, venture capital and the private markets.
Exploring the new frontierof private equity &investor track record
Join us for AngelList’s annual conference where we’ll bring together innovators, investors, thinkers, and doers in an effort to discuss how to navigate the new frontier for private markets.
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Sarah Smith is the founder and GP of a $25M pre-seed/seed rolling fund focused on marketplaces, fintech, future of work, and dev tools. Sarah was previously a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, Graph Ventures, and active angel deploying $45M into 60+ companies including Airtable, BetterUp, Lime, Archive, Arc, and more. She spent 10+ years scaling global teams at Facebook and Quora. Sarah teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford and has degrees from Stanford GSB and University of Wisconsin. She lives in Menlo Park with her husband and two young children.
So you raised a fund in 2021, now what?
Emerging fund managers raised $57B in 2021 — nearly as much as 2019 and 2020 combined — and they deployed that capital during the pandemic boom high. What are the right next steps to build a strong track record? And is that possible given current market dynamics?