Sarah TAVEL, the first GP woman in Benchmark, moves to an adventure partner

After eight years of joining Benchmark as the first general partner of the company, Sarah Tafil announced that she is moving to a limited role in the project company.

In his new position as a legitimate partner, TAVEL will continue to make investments and work on current companies’ boards, but will have more time to explore “artificial intelligence tools on the edge” and think about artificial intelligence.

Join join Standard in 2017 After spending a year and a half as a partner in Greylock and three years as a product manager in Pinterest. Before Pinterest, TAVEL was an investor in Besamer Venture Partners, where she helped in the source of Pinterest and GitHub.

Since its foundation in 1995, Benchmark has intentionally maintained a small team of six or less than the general partners. Unlike most VC companies, the major partners usually receive a larger share of management and profits, Benchmark works as Equal partnershipWith all general partners, they divide the drawings and return evenly.

During her mandate as a general partner in Benchmark, Tavel invested in the camp site HipcampStarting the encrypted intelligence seriesThe Supergreat platform, which was gained by Whatnot in 2023. Tavel also supported the image sharing PhotographersWhich was closed two years ago, and the artificial intelligence sales platform Recently.