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Sarah Sassoon

VP of Operations at Chariot

New York, New York

Overview 

Sarah Sassoon is currently the Vice President of Operations at Chariot in New York, where she oversees operational strategies and implementation. With a background in venture capital and finance, she has held senior roles at organizations like Accion and IFC, bringing expertise in sectors such as AgTech, Logistics, and FinTech to her current position.

Work Experience 

  • VP of Operations

    2024 - Current

    Chariot is a financial technology company focused on Donor Advised Fund payments. We create better DAF giving experiences for donors, nonprofits and DAF providers. Chariot’s DAFpay is the first and only DAF payment option that embeds easy DAF giving into any donation form or nonprofit website where someone is inspired to give. DAFpay lets donors use their DAF in 3 clicks, helps nonprofits spur more DAF giving with more useful + instant donor details, and helps DAF providers add new utility to their DAF accounts. Chariot’s other product, Chariot Disbursements*, solves operational challenges for DAFs and nonprofits, enabling a faster, easier, safer way to send & receive grant payments. DAFpay is on over 60,000 nonprofits’ donation forms, including American Cancer Society, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the University of Pennsylvania. Chariot Disbursements is utilized by all kinds of DAFs, including Daffy and the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation. *Chariot is a financial technology company, not a bank. Chariot Accounts come with a DDA (Demand Deposit Account) through our banking services partner, Column N.A., Member FDIC.

A payments infrastructure and financial services for non profits.

Raised $15,000,000.00 from Maveron.

  • Senior Associate, Venture Lab

    2023 - 2024

  • Associate, Venture Lab

    2020 - 2023

  • Summer Associate, Venture Lab

    2020 - 2020

  • Graduate Intern, Venture Lab

    2020 - 2020

Accion Serving San Diego is a local microlender.

Raised $300,000.00 from Wells Fargo.

  • Consultant, SME Finance Forum

    2019 - 2020

IFC's Venture Capital group invests in ventures and growth stage companies.

  • Graduate Summer Intern, Digital Financial Services Team

    2019 - 2019

  • Partnerships Specialist

    2017 - 2018

  • Business Development Coordinator

    2015 - 2016

The Dodo is a digital media company devoted to animals.

Raised $18,178,569.00 from Berggruen Holdings, Lerer Hippeau, SoftBank, SoftBank Capital, David Stern and Greycroft.

  • Research Intern, "The Evening News with Scott Pelley"

    2014 - 2014

CBS News is the news and information division of CBS Corporation.

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