Sarah Tavel, Benchmark’s first woman GP, transitions to venture partner

Eight years after she joined Benchmark as the first general partner of the company, Sarah Tavel posted on the X that she was moving on to a more limited role in the company for a company.

In her new position as a venture partner, Tavel will continue to invest and serve on the existing committees of the company, but will have more time to explore “AI tools on the edge” and think about AI direction, she wrote.

Tavel joined Benchmark in 2017 After spending a year and a half years as a partner at Greylock for three years as a product manager at Pinterest. Prior to Pinterest, Tavel was an investor in Bessemer Venture Partners, where she helped the Pinterest and Github source.

Since its founding in 1995, Benchmark has intentionally held a small team of six or fewer general partners. Unlike most VC companies, where older partners usually receive a higher proportion of management and profit fee, benchmark acts as equal partnershipWith all the general partners who share fees and return equally.

During his tenure as a general partner of Benchmark, Tavel invested in the Camp Market Hilaunch of the crypto -valute intelligence ArticleAnd the beauty of the supergreat platform, which Whatnot gained in 2023. Tavel also supported the photo sharing app Paparasiswho turned off two years ago, and AI sales platform 11x, about which Techcrunch wrote recently.