Investing Profile

Sara Thomas Deshpande(2)

VCInvestor

General Partner at Maven

mavenventures.com/team/San Francisco, California

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Sara Thomas Deshpande's investing connections

2 Investors

Connected to Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Jai Choi (Partech Ventures).

Networks Sara is a member of

NewCo Network

1586 CONNECTIONS

Top-Patents Network

1029 CONNECTIONS

IT CRUX Mobile Apps Solutions Network

397 CONNECTIONS

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Network

365 CONNECTIONS

Sm4rt Predictive Systems Network

290 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Maven Ventures General Partner

Investment Range

$750K - $1.5M

Sweet Spot

$1M

Investments On Record

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Sara Thomas Deshpande's Investments On Record (16)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Medeloop	Series ANov 2024$16M SeedSep 2023$8M	$24M
The Bot Company	SeedMay 2024$150M	$150M
Co-investors: Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sunny Dhillon (Kyber Knight Capital), John Collison, Patrick Collison
Perplexity	Series CApr 2024$63M	$1.3B
Co-investors: Somesh Dash (IVP), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Tobias Lutke, Peter Sonsini, Mattia Astori, Stanley Druckenmiller, Dylan Field, Jeff Bezos, Bob Muglia, Yann LeCun, Balaji Srinivasan, Guillermo Rauch
Daybreak Health	Series BAug 2023$13M Series AMar 2022$10M SeedFeb 2021$2M	$25M
Co-investors: Nicole Quinn (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures), Deena Shakir (Lux Capital), Robert Ravanshenas (Maven Ventures), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration)
Nest Genomics (YC W22)	SeedJan 2023$9M	$9M
Co-investors: Karen Page (B Capital Group), Ali Tamaseb (DCVC (Data Collective)), Anne Wojcicki (23andMe)
twine	Series UnknownJul 2022	$3M
Co-investors: April Underwood (Obvious Ventures), Clint Chao (Moment Ventures)
Kinside (Acquired by UrbanSitter in 2025)	Series AJun 2022$12M SeedDec 2019$3M	$16M
Co-investors: Alda Dennis (Initialized Capital), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), Michael Madden (Alumni Ventures ), Ed Roman (Hack VC), Joanna Drake Earl (Magnify Ventures), Ted Serbinski
Gametime	Series CMay 2022$30M Series AMay 2015$9M	$43M
Co-investors: Andrew Braccia (Accel), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Jared Simon (Unknown Ventures), Vivek Ranadive (Bow Capital), Brian Spaly (Brand Foundry Ventures), Sam Shank (Nuitée), Tirto Adji, Aaron Levie