Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Sarah Austin started her career reporting on the world's most influential tech CEOs out of the San Francisco office. She anchored Forbes Video Network as TV host syndicated to Forbes on FOX News as well as writer for print and Fobes.com articles. Later, Sarah raised VC money and launched a content network called Pop17 with the startup investment and support of notable VCs, TechCrunch, Rocketboom, and Virgin America. She was the first influencer and video blogger on the internet who took her fame to launch a car for Ford Motor Company and the launch of Virgin America, a new tech savvy airline that was later acquired by Alaska. She started her second company, Peak Energies, as an AI powered content generator that is like Microsoft Word for job posting automation and text improvement using NLP and data from social media and job sites. She sold the company to an investor, and went on to work with SAP Leonardo Blockchain and AI products. She now works for Oracle on bringing awareness to how AI can fight financial crime with Oracle Financial Services global business unit as a leader in the marketing department.