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Operating under the belief that execution solves all problems, XYZ is a venture firm that invests in early-stage founders to help them go faster. They aim to support entrepreneurs in building enduring companies in established, as well as tech-forgotten industries such as insurance and the public sector.

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.

BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.

Invests in technical founders building the next generation of applications, tools, and platforms for developers, data teams, ML engineers, and everything in between.

Focuses on startups that apply technological advances in machine intelligence and enterprise infrastructure to solve real-world problems. In her first position as a Research Director for the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), Sarah and her team used advanced statistical models to predict the behavior of covert organizations, including Somali pirates, illicit charcoal traders, and jihadist insurgencies. She subsequently leveraged computational methods to help public agencies ranging from the US Joint Forces Command to the Secret Service anticipate and disrupt complex threats. Upon joining Mattermark as Head of Data, she applied similar approaches to incomplete and uncertain datasets on private companies. Sarah started her career in venture capital at Canvas Ventures, where she utilized similar methodologies to source the firm’s investments in Fluxx, Platform9, and Kinetica.

Founded Amplify in 2012, returning to the list in 2020. Prior to founding Amplify Partners, Sunil was a General Partner at Battery Ventures where he spent 14 years investing in category-defining IT infrastructure companies such as Chef, Netezza (acquired by IBM), Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK), CipherTrust (acquired by Secure Computing), and @stake (acquired by Symantec). Sunil gets tremendous energy from helping companies go from zero to one. Believing in an idea, helping it take shape, and then seeing it manifest in products, customers, and employees is magical.

Prior to joining a16z, she was a vice president at TA Associates, where she invested in and partnered with founders at growth-stage companies across technology, tech-enabled services, and financial services. Sarah also served on the board of ZoomInfo (fka DiscoverOrg), which scaled to over $350M in revenue in the enterprise sales and marketing intelligence sector. Before TA, Sarah was an early stage investor at DCM Ventures and Radicle Impact, and she started her career at the Boston Consulting Group and Morgan Stanley. She holds a BA, Phi Beta Kappa in economics from Harvard, where she was a John Harvard Scholar, and earned her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she was a Siebel Scholar and Arjay Miller Scholar.

Founder and Managing Partner of XYZ Venture Capital. Made a career as a successful early stage technology investor and is passionate about connecting people to build insightful products.