As Co-founder and Managing Partner, Sara leads Earth Foundry’s investment activities and maintains an active role with each of the firm’s portfolio companies.
Sara has worked in the energy and environment sector for nearly 20 years, with a core focus on helping startups develop commercialization strategies. Working at the intersection of technology and entrepreneurship is a personal passion. Sara has received many awards for her work, including being named was named to Fortune’s list of Top Climate VCs, and Crain’s Leaders in Sustainability.
Prior to starting Earth Foundry, Sara built a government advisory practice for clean technology startups at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she successfully led multiple teams and helped climate tech startups raise $300M in non-dilutive funding. Sara’s previous experience also includes roles with GE Energy, where she developed a solar manufacturing expansion strategy, and with GaiaTech, where she led the environmental due diligence and regulatory compliance process for hundreds of industrial and manufacturing transactions across North America.
Sara holds several advisory roles including serving on the investment committee for accelerator Evergreen Climate Innovations, the advisory board for Chain Reaction Innovations, an incubator program at Argonne National Laboratory, and serving as an Executive-In-Residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business - Rustandy Center.
From working with large Fortune 500 companies to startup businesses, Sara has broad and deep industry knowledge of the energy sector.
She earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA in Environmental Studies from Emory University.
