Sarah Chen-Spellings
Investor and Capital Strategist; Founder and Host, Billion Dollar Moves
Sarah Chen-Spellings brings the perspective of an investor and capital strategist who has mobilized over $1 billion into women-founded companies through a global consortium of venture funds. On stage—from global summits to private investor gatherings—she delivers sharp, unfiltered insights on how wealth is actually built, from ownership and capital allocation to the shifting dynamics of who controls the future of innovation. A sought-after moderator and keynote speaker, she is known for leading high-signal conversations that elevate the room and convening power—drawing on her work with founders, investors, and family offices, as well as her conversations with billionaires and leading allocators on Billion Dollar Moves.
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Sarah Chen-Spellings is an investor, capital strategist, and in-demand speaker and moderator, focused on long-term value creation at the intersection of women, wealth, and innovation.
She co-founded Beyond the Billion, the world’s first and largest global consortium of venture funds, mobilizing over $1.04B into 1,300+ women-founded companies through 122 funds, with partner portfolios backing 16 women-led unicorns, including Canva and Airwallex.
Earlier in her career, Sarah was a corporate venture capitalist at a $13B publicly listed Asian conglomerate, where she helped build a venture arm from the ground up and developed deep expertise across underwriting, governance, and capital deployment.
Today, she partners with visionary founders and families to allocate capital with consequence, with a particular conviction on the rise of modern matriarchs—women shaping the future of wealth, innovation, and impact. She is the creator and host of Billion Dollar Moves, a HubSpot-backed platform featuring long-form conversations and private convenings with billionaires, unicorn founders, and leading capital allocators.
As a moderator, Sarah is known for leading sharp, high-signal conversations with senior leaders—from ministers and institutional investors to founders and Fortune 500 executives. She brings a rare combination of investor judgment, global perspective, and editorial precision—creating conversations that move beyond surface-level insights into what truly drives decisions, capital, and outcomes.
Sarah is a recognized media voice featured in Fortune, Bloomberg, and Forbes. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a King’s College London Distinguished Alumna, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 (Venture Capital) honoree. She holds an LL.B. (Hons.) from King’s College London.
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The Great Wealth Shift: Women, Capital, and the Future of Investing
Why now?
The largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history is underway—and women are set to control an unprecedented share of global capital. This shift is not just social—it is fundamentally reshaping how capital is allocated, what gets funded, and who builds the future.
Key insights:
- How women are reshaping capital allocation across venture, private markets, and family offices
- The rise of the “modern matriarch” and what it means for wealth, governance, and legacy
- Where capital is flowing now—and what it signals for the next decade
- Case studies from $1B+ deployed across 1,300+ companies
Best for: Family offices, private banks, institutional investors, leadership forums
Building the Next Unicorn: What It Takes to Win in Today’s Market
Why now?
The playbook for building billion-dollar companies has fundamentally changed. In a tighter capital environment, only a small set of companies will break out—those that understand capital efficiency, strategic timing, and investor psychology.
Key insights:
- The new rules for scaling to $1B+ in today’s market
- What investors look for before deploying $100M+ checks
- How founders navigate downturns—and come out stronger
- Signals of where the next generation of breakout companies is emerging
Best for: Founder audiences, tech conferences, venture ecosystems
Capital with Consequence: How the World’s Best Allocators Think
Why now?
In an era of volatility and rapid change, capital allocation—not just capital access—is the defining advantage. The best investors and families are rethinking how they deploy capital across generations.
Key insights:
- How top allocators think across public and private markets
- Balancing growth, preservation, and impact
- Structuring capital for long-term advantage (not short-term wins)
- Lessons from working alongside founders, funds, and family offices
Best for: Family offices, LPs, private wealth platforms, CIO forums
Purpose, Power, and Performance: How World-Class Leaders Build with Conviction
Why now?
In high-stakes environments, clarity of purpose is not a luxury—it is a strategic advantage. The most enduring leaders operate with conviction, even under pressure and uncertainty.
Key insights:
- How mission-driven leaders make better long-term decisions
- Building resilience through uncertainty and failure
- Aligning personal purpose with institutional outcomes
- Lessons from billion-dollar founders, athletes, and global leaders
Best for: Corporate leadership, executive retreats, global forums
What other organizations say about Sarah Chen-Spellings
Sarah is one-of-a-kind: her work in venture and women in leadership, her depth of knowledge in her areas of expertise, and ability to present an argument to a large international audience and immediately win them over, truly impressed us at the Goethe-Institut. Beyond being an excellent speaker, she was also an engaging facilitator at our Kultursymposium, a gathering of over 500 thought leaders from the world of science, culture, politics, economics and journalism. She has character, wit and presence ? and is the speaker you?d want at your event.
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