Lily Sarafan

Angel

Overview

Gender
female
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Lily Sarafan is the Executive Chair of TheKey. She is also an Operating Partner at Cota Capital.

An active Stanford alum, Lily serves on the Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors, the Freeman Spogli Institute Council, and the Stanford Undergraduate Education Cabinet. She is also Founding Partner of Project BIG: The Stanford Brain Immune Gut Initiative. Lily's board service extends to other high-impact nonprofits including the Women's Alzheimer's Movement and the BerkeleyHaas Center for Innovation Economies, where she is board chair. An appointee to the California Governor’s Alzheimer's Task Force, Lily serves in various leadership roles to advance economic development, civic engagement, and precision health.

Lily holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering and B.S. in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University, where she was Eben Tisdale Fellow and Class President. She has been named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Women Health Care Executives Woman of the Year, and a Silicon Valley 40 Under 40. Lily is a Member of Young Presidents' Organization, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
1
Lily Sarafan has made 1 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jul 20, 2016, when Mezmo raised $1.30M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Jul 20, 2016 Mezmo Seed $1.30M Cloud Computing Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
2
Lily Sarafan has 2 current jobs including Board of Directors at Instacart , Mentor at 500 Global and .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Instacart Board of Directors Oct 1, 2021 Detail
500 Global Mentor Detail