Sarah Applebaum

Director of Pangaea Spark, Pangaea Ventures

Investing in early stage materials, chemistry, and biology technology companies.

Media

Three consulting engineering executives in Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women

Canadian Consulting Engineer, December 2, 2014Online

URL: http://www.canadianconsultingengineer.com/companies-people/three-consulting-engineering-executives-in-canadas-top-100-most-powerful-women/1003377013/

Several engineers were among the 2014 Canada's Most Powerful Women Top 100 award winners announced at a gala event held at the Toronto Convention Centre on November 27.

SARAH DEVEREAUX (BENG ’93; MENG ’99) - Passion for the profession

Sarah Devereaux, FEC, P.Eng. Appointed as Engineers Canada Director

Engineers Nova Scotia, June 25, 2016Online

URL: https://secure.engineersnovascotia.ca/news/view/?news.id=54

Sarah Devereaux is appointed as the Engineers Nova Scotia Director on the Board of Engineers Canada.

Passion for the Profession

Dalhousie University - Faculty of Engineering, September 3, 2015Online

URL: https://issuu.com/facultyofengineeringdalhousie/docs/engineering_spring_summer-2015

Sarah Devereaux Champions Women in Engineering

First Lady - Sarah Devereaux tapped to lead Consulting Engineers of Nova Scotia

Atlantic Business, September 7, 2010Online

URL: http://www.atlanticbusinessmagazine.net/article/mystery-to-mun/

As a teen, Sarah Devereaux was devastated when her favorite teacher laughed at her for wanting to be an engineer. Did he laugh because he didn’t think she was smart enough (she excelled in math and science), or because he didn’t think it was an appropriate career for a woman? Devereaux doesn’t know, and ultimately, it doesn’t matter. Rather than deter, his derision–coupled with her own desire to “build something” like her teacher/construction worker father–made her even more determined to pursue her chosen career. Today, the Gander, NL native is one of the leading environmental engineers in Atlantic Canada, a senior environmental engineer in the Halifax office of Dillon Consulting, a councilor for Engineers Nova Scotia and treasurer of the Atlantic Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of Nova Scotia. Her most recent accomplishment was to be named the first woman president of the Consulting Engineers of Nova Scotia (a group of almost 60 Nova Scotia-based companies providing jobs for more than 3,000 professionals in engineering-related services).

Nine Women's stories on making it in venture capital

Published by Canadian Business

May 20, 2015

Less than 15% of Canada's venture capitalists are women. Here's how the business needs to change - in their own words.

URL: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/leadership/nine-womens-stories-on-making-it-in-venture-capital/

Biography

Sarah Applebaum is the Director of Pangaea Spark at Pangaea Ventures. Pangaea Ventures is a world leader in advanced materials venture capital - investing in companies with innovations in the areas of energy, electronics, health, and sustainability. As Director of Pangaea Spark, Applebaum leads the firms activities in seed-stage investing. She is a member of the Young Private Capitalist Committee of the CVCA, on the start up showcase review board for SXSW Eco, and mentor to the Singularity University Labs Accelerator. She is also the co-founder of TNT Events, a Vancouver-based organization that strives to create a more interconnected and multi-disciplinary innovation ecosystem. Applebaum holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business and a BSc from Dalhousie University.

Past Talks

Panel - Pulling cleantech Innovation into the Market

BC Tech Summit

Vancouver, BC, March 15, 2017

Expertise

  • Venture Capital
  • Venture Capital Financing
  • Startups
  • Smart glass
  • Seed-stage investing
  • Medical Devices
  • Hard-tech Investing
  • Cleantech
  • Ag Tech
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Additive Manufacturing/3d Printing
  • 3d Printing

Education/Éducation

  • Schulich School of Business
    Business
    MBA, 2012
  • Dalhousie University
    Environmental Science & International Development Studies
    BSc.