Sarah Cone

Sarah Cone is a co-founder of Trident Desalination and is the Chairman of the Board.

She is also the founder and Managing Partner of Social Impact Capital, a venture capital firm that produces top decile returns by investing in the earliest stages in companies that are solving the world’s most difficult problems. Trident Desalination was incubated at Social Impact Capital, in collaboration with DCVC, due to the pressing need for widespread, low-cost desalination solutions and emerged from a comprehensive review of all of the desalination technology in the world.

Earlier in her career, Sarah worked for the consulting firm CTI, helping to restructure the R&D departments of large Japanese corporations. Sarah has also been an Associate at Illuminate Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund investing in B2B SaaS. She got her start in venture capital working for the “emerging technologies” venture capital group at Omidyar Network. Sarah has also worked in the legal department of Google, at the technology law firm Fenwick & West, Amazon.com, and at the technology policy non-profit Public Knowledge.

Sarah has a BA in interdisciplinary studies from the Evergreen State College and a JD from UC Berkeley. At UC Berkeley, Sarah won the Advocacy Award for persuasive writing, the Jurisprudence Award for academic excellence, and her thesis “Reforming Federal Tax Policy to Support Social Entrepreneurs” received honors.