Sam Burke

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Principal at Foxglove Growth · Fintech · venture capital, board work

Foxglove Growth
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
6+ years experience
Rhode Island School of Design
English
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Overview

Principal at Foxglove Growth, backing fintech companies. Sit on 6 boards. Backed 26 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Boston Consulting Group and Pinterest. Most at home with biotech and venture capital. Learning to draw.

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  • Working sessions on venture capital
  • Second opinions on biotech decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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Skills
due diligenceventure capitalbiotechboard work

Experience

  1. Principal
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Foxglove Growth · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Sit on 5 boards.
    • Led or co-led 7 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
    Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Built the experimentation framework 28 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
    Pinterest · 1 yr · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped 23 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Led the migration of 31 services to due diligence.

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Education

  1. Rhode Island School of Design
    BFA, Business Administration
    2016 - 2020

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