Sara Thomas Deshpande

Sara Thomas Deshpande is a General Partner at Maven Ventures, where she invests in pre-seed and seed-stage consumer technology, including consumer AI applications, digital health, and personalized medicine. She is investing from a $65M fund raised in September 2019, and focuses primarily on the United States, including the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. She has invested in companies like Hello Heart, Wildtype, Carrot Fertility, Daybreak Health, and Embark Trucks. Before Maven Ventures, she was a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, an Independent Startup Advisor, Director of Entrepreneur Services and previously a Business Associate at The Idea Village, and a Manager at Deloitte Consulting. She attended the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and lives in San Francisco, California.