Sara Deshpande

General Partner at Maven Ventures

Sara Thomas Deshpande is a General Partner at Maven Ventures (mavenventures.com), where she invests in seed-stage, hypergrowth consumer software with a focus on consumer AI, digital health, and personalized medicine. With over a decade in venture capital, her investments include Carrot Fertility, Daybreak Health, Hello Heart, Embark Trucks, Medeloop, and Wildtype. She also serves as a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, helping MBA students turn early ideas into real businesses through the Startup Garage course. Learn more on her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saradeshpande.