Sara Du

Sara Du is the San Francisco-based founder of Ando, a communication platform designed for humans and artificial intelligence agents, and currently serves as a board member at Alloy Automation. Before launching her own companies, she attended Harvard University but ultimately dropped out to accept a Thiel Fellowship and pursue startup ventures full-time. Her early professional experience included technical and product-focused roles at major consumer technology companies, specifically working at Snap and Wish. Du previously co-founded and served as a key executive at Alloy Automation, a no-code e-commerce automation platform that successfully secured $27 million in total venture funding, highlighted by a $20 million investment round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Today, her primary professional focus remains on building long-term enterprise software solutions, specifically targeting developer tools, automation infrastructure, and collaborative artificial intelligence systems for the modern workforce.