Sarah Fu

Founder and Managing Partner

2024

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

Startup Advisor and Angel Investor

2021

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

Co-founder and CEO

2023 - 2024

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

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

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

Investor

2015 - 2015

Corporate Development

2015 - 2015

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

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)