8 years after becoming a member of Benchmark because the company’s first girl common spouse, Sarah Tavel introduced on X that she is transitioning to a extra restricted function on the storied mission company.
In her new place as a mission spouse, Tavel will proceed to invest and serve on present corporate forums, however she may have extra time to discover “AI gear on the edge” and replicate at the path of AI, she wrote.
Tavel joined Benchmark in 2017 after spending one and a part years as a spouse at Greylock and 3 years as a product supervisor at Pinterest. Earlier than Pinterest, Tavel used to be an investor at Bessemer Mission Companions, the place she helped supply Pinterest and GitHub.
Since its founding in 1995, Benchmark has intentionally maintained a small group of six or fewer common companions. In contrast to maximum VC corporations, the place senior companions normally obtain a better proportion of control charges and earnings, Benchmark operates as an equivalent partnership, with all common companions dividing charges and returns similarly.
All the way through her tenure as Benchmark’s common spouse, Tavel invested within the campsite market Hipcamp, the cryptocurrency intelligence startup Chainalysis, and the wonder platform Supergreat, which used to be got through Whatnot in 2023. Tavel additionally sponsored the photo-sharing app Paparazzi, which close down two years in the past, and the AI gross sales platform 11X, about which techmim wrote just lately.
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