Sarah Tavel, Benchmark’s first woman GP, transitions to venture partner

Sarah Tavel announced eight years after entering Benchmark as the first general machine for the company in the famous risk clutch.

In her new position as a venture partner, Tavel will continue to make investments and serve in existing company board members, but she will have more time to explore “AI tools on the side” and to think about the direction of AI, she wrote.

Tavel joined Benchmark in 2017 After a year and a half as a partner at Greylock and three years as a product manager at Pinterest. Before Pinterest, Tavel was an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, where she helped at the source of Pinterest and Github.

Since its foundation in 1995, Benchmark has deliberately maintained a small team of six or fewer general partners. In contrast to most VC companies, in which high -ranking partners usually receive a larger proportion of administrative fees and profits, benchmark is as Same partnershipto all general partners who separate fees and returns alike.

During her tenure as a general partner of Benchmark, Tavel invested in the campsite marketplace Hip campThe startup of cryptocurrency intelligence ChainAnd the Beauty Platform supergratreat, which was acquired by Whosnot in 2023. Tavel also supported the photo sharing app Paparazziwhich were closed two years ago and the AI ​​sales platform 11x, about which techcrunch Recently written.