Before joining venture capital, Sara Rywe started a dance school for kids with low self-esteem, helped set up a regional company competition for young entrepreneurs in South America, and worked and studied in more than 10 countries, including startup roles in Singapore and at Wikia/Fandom; at byFounders she became known for pushing the fund's due diligence process to a new level of detail, building out its entire impact and ESG framework, and treating emotional intelligence as a core part of how she evaluates founders. She has also shown a willingness to back companies extremely early, including helping lead Lovable's pre-seed round without ever meeting the founders in person, and she often points to thinking globally from day one as a guiding idea in how she invests.