Sarah Guo
American investor
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Sarah Guo is an American tech investor. She is the founder of the venture capital firm Conviction and formerly a general partner at Greylock Partners.
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| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS, MBA, MA) |
| Occupation | Investor |
| Organization | Conviction |
| Website | sarahguo |
Early life and education
Guo grew up in Wisconsin. Her parents worked for Bell Labs.[1] After attending Phillips Academy, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School.[2] She received a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), and a Master of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.[3]
Career
As a teenager, Guo worked at Casa Systems, a cloud networking company started by her parents, which launched in 2003 and went public in 2017.[4] She then worked at Goldman Sachs.[5]
In 2013, Guo joined Greylock Partners.[6] While still in her twenties, she became the firm's youngest General Partner.[7]
In July 2022, Guo left Greylock. In October 2022, she launched a new early-stage venture capital firm focused on AI, Conviction,[8] with a second fund in late 2024 with Mike Vernal.[9] Conviction's investments include early investments in Baseten,[10] Cognition AI,[11] OpenEvidence,[12] Harvey,[13] HeyGen,[14] Mistral AI,[15] Sierra Platform,[16] Sunday Robotics,[17] and Thinking Machines Lab.[18]
Guo is on the 2025 Midas Seed list of top investors.[19] She appears in media outlets, as an expert in AI, infrastructure, business software, cybersecurity, technology policy and software engineering.[20][21][22][23][24][25]
She co-hosts the podcast No Priors with tech founder and super angel Elad Gil.[26]