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Venture Partner and Founding Team Member at Venture Guides

Sage Nye

“Great companies aren’t born from chance, they’re built through relentless focus on real customer needs and disciplined execution.”

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Sage Nye is a Venture Partner and founding team member at Venture Guides, where she drives early-stage software infrastructure investing and supports founders from seed through Series A. Sage is a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Venture Capital 2025 class.

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Based in Greater Boston, Sage combines strategic insight with hands-on guidance to help portfolio companies sharpen their go-to-market motion and scale with purpose. Before Venture Guides, she led strategic alliances at Turbonomic and worked across nonprofit leadership and team operations.

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Sage also hosts the Built Not Born podcast, focused on real-world startup growth advice, where she brings you real talk with founders, investors, and GTM experts on what it really takes to land customers and scale your startup.

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Ask me

1
What was the very first repeatable signal that told you your go-to-market was actually working, and what did you stop doing once you saw it?
2
Looking back at your first 10 customers, what did they buy instead of your product before you existed?
3
Where do founders most often over-engineer their GTM early, and what’s the simplest version that actually gets traction?
4
What mistake nearly broke your early sales motion, and how did you redesign it to scale?

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