Sara Barek

Managing Partner, Founding Team Member·Oceans Ventures

Hastings-On-Hudson, New York, United States

Bio

Professional summary

Sara Barek is a Managing Partner and Founding Team Member at Oceans, where she is responsible for operations. Oceans' profile emphasizes her experience building operational processes that help teams work together efficiently. She previously spent nine years at ClearForest, a natural language software company acquired by Thomson Reuters, where she managed enterprise customer engagements and engineering delivery. She later held leadership roles at Thomson Reuters and worked on strategic partnerships and product development at Harmony Labs.

Investment focus

Stage, sector, and overall fit

Stage

formative-stage startupsearly-stage startups

Sector

technology startupsoperationsclient-facing enterprise software

Thesis

Early-stage startups needing operational structure and cross-functional executionTechnology startups at formative stages

Notable companies

Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed

ClearForestThomson ReutersHarmony Labs

How to approach

Framing and angles for outreach

Pitch framing

Emphasize operational discipline, customer-facing execution, or building lightweight process for scaling teams.

Partneralization hooks

1Experience translating customer requirements into delivered enterprise software outcomes
2Operations and process-building for cross-functional teams
3Interest in hiking, cooking, gardening, travel, and the Hudson Valley

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

OceansManaging Partner & Founding Team Member2018 – Present

Education

Middlebury CollegeDegree

Skills

Venture CapitalOperationsCross-functional ExecutionCompany Building

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