Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 6
Number of Founded Organizations 2
  • Primary Job Title Co-Founder and Partner
  • Primary Organization 
    Pillar VC
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner
  • Investor Stage  Early Stage Venture, Seed

Sarah Hodges is the Co-Founder and Partner at Pillar, a seed-stage venture firm in co-founded by 22 CEOs, including the leaders of DraftKings, Ginkgo Bioworks, Wayfair, and Tripadvisor. We’re the first capital for unstoppable founders. Almost half the companies Pillar has backed are university spinouts, and the firm's investments include

PillPack, Desktop Metal, Kuebix, Algorand, Asimov and PathAI, among others.

Prior to Pillar Sarah Hodges was a member of the executive team at Pluralsight, the world’s largest online learning community for IT, dev and creative training. At Pluralsight, Sarah served as the Vice President of People Operations, helping the company double in size in less than one year.

Before joining the company, Sarah was a member of the executive team at Smarterer (sold to Pluralsight), where she oversaw business strategy, operations and marketing.

Sarah has held leadership roles in early-stage startups including RunKeeper (sold to Asics) and Carbonite (CARB). She currently serves on the board of the New England Venture Capital Association.

In 2012, Sarah co-founded Intelligent.ly, a leadership development company that has transformed over 1,000 emerging leaders across 50 high-growth companies, and continues to serve the Boston community.

Number of Partner Investments 10
Number of Current Jobs 3
Number of Past Jobs 5
Sarah Hodges has 3 current jobs including Investor at Hometap, Co-Founder and Partner at Pillar VC, and Co-Founder at Intelligent.ly. Additionally, Sarah Hodges has had 5 past jobs including Co-Founder at Intelligent.ly.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Intelligent.ly
Co-Founder20122017
Pluralsight
Vice President of People OperationsNov 19, 2014Jun 3, 2016
Runkeeper
Director of Online MarketingDec 2010Feb 2012
Carbonite
Manager of Online Marketing Optimization2009Dec 1, 2010
Smarterer
Vice President of Marketing & Client ServicesApr 15, 2012
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 6
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 2
Sarah Hodges holds 6 board and advisor roles including Board Member at Waeve, Board Member at JobGet, and Board Member at Knox Financial.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Flybridge
AdvisorsAug 2012Jun 2016
Mylestone
Advisors
Sarah Hodges studied at Scripps College.