Sarah Guo
American venture capitalist
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Sarah Guo is an American venture capitalist. She is the founder of the venture capital firm Conviction and formerly a general partner at Greylock Partners.[1]
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| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS, MBA, MA) |
| Occupation | Investor |
| Organization | Conviction |
| Website | sarahguo |
Early life
Guo grew up in Wisconsin.[2] Guo's father, Jerry Guo, emigrated from Hunan, China, to the United States in 1987 after graduating from Tsinghua University. Her mother, Lucy Xie, an engineer, followed a year later, and both were hired by Bell Labs. In 2003, her father founded Casa Systems, a broadband equipment company based in Andover, Massachusetts, which her mother later joined.[3] Guo built the company's first website at age 14 and was pitching the company to investors by 19. Casa went public on the Nasdaq in December 2017 at a market capitalization of roughly $1.2 billion, though eventually filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2024.[4]
Education
After attending Phillips Academy, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School.[5] 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.[6]
Career
Guo moved to San Francisco in 2012 to work at Goldman Sachs, where she worked on Workday's initial public offering.[7] She was recruited to in 2013 to Greylock by Aneel Bhusri, Workday's CEO and a Greylock partner.[8]
At Greylock, Guo led the Series A investment in Figma and worked on Musical.ly, the app that later became TikTok.[3]
At 28, she became the firm's youngest General Partner.[9]
Guo left Greylock in July 2022, and in October of that year, launched a new early-stage venture capital firm focused on AI with $101 million.[10]
In 2025, Conviction raised a second fund in late 2024 with Mike Vernal.[11]
Conviction's investments include early investments in Baseten,[12] Cognition AI,[13] OpenEvidence,[14] Harvey,[15] HeyGen,[16] Mistral AI,[17] Sierra Platform,[18] Sunday Robotics,[19] and Thinking Machines Lab.[20]
Guo appears in media outlets, as an expert in AI, infrastructure, business software, cybersecurity, technology policy and software engineering.[21][22][23][24][25][26]
Guo is on the Midas List and the Midas Seed List of top investors.[27]
She co-hosts the podcast No Priors with tech founder and super angel Elad Gil.[28]
Personal life
Guo is married to Pat Grady of Sequoia Capital,[29] with whom she has four children.[3]