Sonia Isha Rao

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Principal, Driftwood Partners - venture capital · board work · due diligence

Driftwood Partners
San Diego, CA · PT (UTC-8)
8+ years experience
Stanford GSB
English
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Overview

I invest in fintech at Driftwood Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 35 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: Lyft and Nvidia. Cyclist - trying to do a century this year.

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  • Working sessions on venture capital
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about fintech
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  • Crypto token projects
  • Decks without a clear ask
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board workventure capitaldue diligence

Experience

  1. Principal
    Nov 2024 - Present
    Driftwood Partners · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Backed 36 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 6 boards.
  2. Associate Product Manager
    Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
    Lyft · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new creator customers from 13 days to 1.
  3. Director of Product
    Jun 2019 - Feb 2023
    Nvidia · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
  4. Director of Product
    Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
    Shopify · 8 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Ran 110 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Took lending activation from 20% to 40% in three quarters.

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Education

  1. Stanford GSB
    MBA, Business Administration
    2018 - 2020
  2. Cornell University
    BS, Economics
    2013 - 2017

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