Sarah Burch

Biography

Sarah works at the intersection of Silicon Valley and emerging markets at the RippleWorks Foundation, a newly launched foundation that pairs world-class business and technology experts with rapidly growing social ventures around the world. Beyond advising or mentorship, the RippleWorks program is real problem solving: volunteer experts work with innovative, rapidly growing social ventures to jointly solve an immediate and critical scaling challenge. RippleWorks currently has live projects through East Africa, Indonesia, and India

As the portfolio manager at RippleWorks, Sarah helps solve critical scaling challenges within startups and social enterprises by enabling world-class talent to provide valuable expertise while keeping their day jobs.

Sarah Burch has deep experience in helping emerging market social enterprises grow and generate sustainable impact. Over the past five years, Sarah helped launch and develop Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), one of the first VC-style impact funds in government.

At DIV, Sarah led the due diligence and closing of over 20 deals – aggregating $22 million in over 10 countries – as well as managed a portfolio of 30 startups and social enterprises in areas such as energy, water access, and health care.