Sara Ittelson

Sara Ittelson is a Partner at Accel based in the Bay Area, where she focuses on early-stage consumer, enterprise, and artificial intelligence investments. Before joining the venture capital firm in 2022, she served as the Head of Strategic Partnerships at Faire, helping the wholesale marketplace scale its valuation from $535 million to $12.4 billion. She previously worked in global business development at Uber and Uber Eats, gaining direct operational experience in scaling multi-sided communities and hypergrowth technology startups. Ittelson holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, and she currently holds active board seats at portfolio companies including AssemblyAI, Cinder, and Syrup. Her current investment focus centers on backing category-defining consumer applications and the critical security foundations required for modern AI-driven enterprise platforms.