Investor Relations Operations Manager
Bessemer Venture PartnersCheck size: Not applicable. Sarah does not publish a check size, startup thesis or investment authority. Founders should contact a Bessemer deal investor; LP and IR process matters fit her team.
Sarah designs the operating system for Bessemer investor relations: content creation, processes and infrastructure supporting fundraising and limited-partner relationships. Her sociology-and-computing education and current DealCloud and Airtable credentials align with turning stakeholder workflows into structured, repeatable systems. This is an operations mandate, not portfolio selection.
For the role: structured processes, useful content, clean relationship data, systems that reduce repeated manual work, clear ownership and infrastructure that lets an IR team serve LPs consistently at scale.
No founder-screening criteria are public. Startup pitches are misrouted. In operations, fragmented data, undocumented processes, one-off spreadsheets without ownership, stale content and requests lacking a defined output or deadline create avoidable friction.
Do not pitch Sarah for portfolio investment. For an IR operations request, identify the LP or internal stakeholder, system of record, workflow trigger, desired content or output, owner, deadline and success condition. Use Bessemer's relevant investor for founder outreach.
Map trigger, owner, source data, approvals, deliverable and deadline so fundraising and LP service can run consistently across people and tools.
Keep current contacts, interactions, requests and materials in governed systems rather than scattered spreadsheets and inboxes.
Interpret 'investor relations' as service to fund investors and fundraising—not portfolio-company investing—unless the firm explicitly says otherwise.
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Sarah Soell is Bessemer's Investor Relations Operations Manager in New York. She supports fundraising and LP relationships through content, process design and infrastructure. She began at Bessemer in its California offices in 2017 and progressed through executive-assistant, office-management and investor-relations roles. She earned a BA in Sociology with a specialization in Computing from UCLA and holds current DealCloud Platform Manager and Airtable Builder certifications.