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Sarah Fu

Investor at Various Startups

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Sarah Fu is a finance leader at Stripe, with previous roles at Fidelity Investments and Morgan Stanley. She has a strong background in financial modeling, investment banking, and equity research, and specializes in investing in generative tech/AI and fintech sectors. Sarah Fu has a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and has experience as an investor and advisor in various startups. She excels in financial analysis and data analysis, and her investment focus includes Series B, Series A, and seed stage companies in sectors such as enterprise applications and consumer internet.

Work Experience 

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Elsa Capital

  • Founder and Managing Partner

    2024 - Current

    Elsa Capital is an early-stage venture firm investing in fintech and vertical AI applications (with a focus on financial / professional services). Contact: sarah@elsacap.co

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Various Startups

  • Startup Advisor and Angel Investor

    2021

    Invest in and partner with startups building in fintech, SaaS, and GenAI.

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Stealth Startup

  • Co-founder and CEO

    2023 - 2024

    CEO and co-founder of a fintech startup (YC admit).

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Stripe

  • Corporate Strategy and Finance Leader

    2020 - 2022

    - Advised CEO, President and CFO on market and financial insight; delivered analysis for Stripe's executive team during the 10-year-strategic-planning - Led business-critical fundraising including Series H ($600M), Series I ($6.5B) and a large debt financing - Played a core role in public company readiness and led a 20-people cross-functional team across comms, marketing, legal, accounting, and finance for the quarterly earnings process - Founded a finance and business internal newsletter and grew subscriber to 1,000+ Stripe employees

  • Stripe Connect Leadership Team

    2018 - 2020

    - Leadership team member of Stripe's flagship product, representing half of Stripe's payment volume - Co-led the development of product and monetization strategies together with Business Lead and Head of Product - Delivered one of Stripe's best-ever product business reviews and long-term strategy plans, as recognized by the CEO and CPO - Owned monthly business and financial reviews, forecasting and reporting

Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.

Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.

stripe.com
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Fidelity Investments

  • Investor

    2016 - 2018

    - Oversaw $8 billion of investments in financial and business services companies - Promoted to Portfolio Manager of a $400M fund - Generated 800 bps alpha (over S&P 500) during my tenure

Fidelity is a privately-owned investment manager focusing on a diverse set of customers.

Raised $152,825,000.00.

fidelity.com
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T. Rowe Price

  • Investor

    2015 - 2015

T. Rowe Price is an investment management firm that focuses on funding technology startups.

troweprice.com
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Axel Springer

  • Corporate Development

    2015 - 2015

    Researched and sourced investment opportunities for Axel Springer's corporate VC arm

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Morgan Stanley

  • Technology Investment Banking

    2011 - 2014

    - Helped execute over 10 transactions totaling $25 billion across M&As, equity and debt financing for leading Internet, software, semi, and gaming companies - Core team member in taking Alibaba public (largest U.S. IPO ever)

Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.

morganstanley.com

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