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George Sarlo is the Venture Partner at Walden Venture Capital. A native of Hungary, George Sarlo and his college classmates in Budapest started an anti-government protest that grew into a full-scale rebellion, only to be crushed by the Soviet Army. After escaping to Austria he came to America as a refugee. George co-founded Walden Venture Capital with Art Berliner. Later, he also co-founded Walden International and Walden Israel, both of which spun out as stand-alone entities. At Walden, George led the successful investments in Elantec (Intersil), Rugged Digital Systems, Microchip, Vitesse Semiconductor, InVivo (NASDAQ), Computer Communications, RasterOps and Terayon, among others. Prior to Walden, George was an engineer at Hughes Aircraft and a Portfolio Manager at Capital Research. George also was the Founder and Chairman of Ashfield & Co., an investment management company in San Francisco with over $4 billion under management. Ashfield was sold to Old Mutual plc (LSE:OML) in
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 9 investors at Walden Venture Capital are tracked.
- • 421 investors hold the Venture Partner role in VCSift. George Sarlo is one of them.
- • 7,285 investors are based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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