Sam Haffar

Sam Haffar is a Partner at Real Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm where he utilizes his prior operational background to evaluate new investments. Before transitioning to the venture capital sector, he spent nearly a decade operating in Silicon Valley as a startup founder, corporate strategist, and growth marketer. Most notably, he served as a founding team member at Chegg, an education technology platform that scaled its operations and completed an initial public offering in 2013. Throughout his broader operating career, he directed growth, marketing, and sales initiatives for multiple early-stage technology companies that collectively secured over $200 million in funding from prominent venture capital firms. Today, Haffar focuses his current investment practice on guiding portfolio founders through complex organizational development, product strategy refinement, and Series A fundraising to accelerate their overall business scaling.