Thalia Greenberg

Not all crazy ideas are great, but all great ideas are crazy.

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the short version

Thalia Greenberg at graduation, smiling in a cap and gown
Tufts, May 2024

I'm a venture capital investor at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco. I spent my first two years at Goldman in private equity across co-investments, secondaries, primaries and GP stakes. Before finance, I attended Tufts University, majoring in economics and sociology and minoring in Spanish. I was a varsity midfielder and captain on the Tufts Soccer Team and ran a youth soccer coaching business for six years. These days my free time is dedicated to staying active, adventuring, and side questing.

résumé

Jul 2026 – now
San Francisco

Venture Capital Associate — Goldman Sachs

Venture and venture secondaries, after two years on the PE side.

Jul 2024 – Jul 2026
West Palm Beach

Private Equity Associate — Goldman Sachs

Buy-side and sell-side deal work across four verticals: co-investments, secondaries, primaries and GP stakes. Selected transactions:

  • $72mm co-investment in a $13.2bn insurance management company — industry benchmarking, underwriting, and a value-creation plan targeting a 22% IRR
  • $277mm continuation vehicle for a sixteen-asset FinTech venture portfolio — sector research across FinTech and AI, revenue and retention analysis
  • $665mm sale of Industry Ventures (+$300mm earnout) — benchmarked venture secondary peers, evaluated fee and carry economics on a $7.0bn AUM business
Feb – Jun 2024
Boston

Investor Relations Intern, Opal — Girls Into Venture Capital

LP communications, fundraising materials, data rooms, and CRM tracking.

Summer 2022
New York

Residential Credit Summer Analyst — Pretium Partners

Distressed residential mortgage loans, bonds and hedging positions; weekly surveillance reports and daily news briefs.

2016 – 2022
Mill Valley

Soccer Coach & Mentor

Built a coaching business of 13 kids aged 6–14.

2020 – 2024
Medford, MA

Tufts University — B.A. Economics & Sociology, Spanish minor

3.74 GPA, magna cum laude, Dean's List every semester. Varsity soccer captain (~30 hrs/week of games, practices, lifts and film). Mentor in Tufts Financial Group.

2022 – 2024
Philadelphia

Girls Who Invest — Summer Intensive & Campus Ambassador

Finance and investing intensive taught at Wharton, then two years as the Tufts campus ambassador.

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soccer

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Thalia Greenberg, number 16 in light blue, striking a shot at goal for Tufts at Connecticut College
No. 16, about to score at Conn College
7goals, senior year
5th in the NESCAC
21/21games started, 2023
2ndTeam All-NESCAC
FINAL 4NCAA D-III, 2023
Cteam captain

scheme of consciousness

substack

My newsletter, where finance and markets meet frontier tech and information, with a healthy amount of irony and sarcasm. Who gets funded and why, what secondaries reveal about the private markets, and a little glimpse into my opinions.

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    side quests

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    Here are some side projects I'm working on.

    BENCHED

    pre-launch

    An exclusive athleisure label I'm co-founding at the intersection of sports and streetwear. Inspired by team uniforms and vintage colorways, we're challenging the status quo of what a workout set looks like.

    Most commonly denoted with a negative connotation, the word “BENCHED” doesn't have to mean “not good enough.” We are reclaiming the name to empower those who compete without winning, who train without reward, and who show up without an audience.

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    brewr

    live MVP

    A marketplace for cold outreach I'm founding. Every week I get messages from students, mostly women, asking what my job is actually like and how to break in. I want to answer all of them and I can't. So Brewr lets anyone pay $15 for a 30-minute call with someone actively doing the job they're curious about: students get a guaranteed response instead of 50 ignored LinkedIn DMs, professionals get paid for time they were already giving away, and if the request is declined the credits refund automatically.

    Using React, Next.js and SQL to build the MVP, Brewr includes auth and onboarding, Stripe credits, the request/accept/decline flow, real-time messaging, and payouts. It's live with early users at brewr.net.

    Try Brewr

    places I've been

    21 countries
    been there not yet