Please enjoy True Wealth Ventures’ news features, research blogs and articles about the Fund’s portfolio companies and founders.
June 27, 2022 – FinSMEs: True Wealth Ventures Closes $35M Fund II
FinSMEs reports of $35M True Wealth Ventures Fund II close.
April 11, 2022 – Q2 2022 Update: Learn about our 3rd investment from Fund II & our impact investing street cred!
Check out our April newsletter with an update on our 3rd Fund II investment, Fund I performance and another impact investor accolade
November 13, 2019 – Crunchbase News: New Organization Aims to Help Austin Women In VC Connect, Network
Austin Women in VC was born as an initiative to get all females working in VC in Austin in [...]
October 18, 2019 – Silicon Hills News: MassChallenge Texas Awards $500,000 to Five Startups
Sara T. Brand, a founding general partner of True Wealth Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Austin, gave one [...]
April 21, 2022 – Business Wire: Peer-Reviewed Study Validates BrainCheck’s Digital Cognitive Test, Signaling Breakthrough for Future of Dementia Diagnosis
Journal of Medical research on the diagnostic accuracy of BrainCheck’s digital cognitive testing for dementia
March 21, 2022 – CryptoNewsZ: Queen of Raw and MIT Solve Release World’s First No-Code Mobile Fabric Footprint Impact Report on Chain
TWV’s portfolio co. Queen of Raw has created an impact footprint reporting tool on Raw Chain with Solve-MIT
May 26, 2016 – Austin Inno: VC’s Debate: How to Build Something Bigger Than Austin
This article originially appeared on AustinInno reporting by Brent Wistrom. Austin doesn't have the deep-pocketed venture capital firms that fuel startups on [...]
March 25, 2016 – IEEE.TV: N3XT Live at SXSW 2016 with Kerry Rupp of True Wealth Ventures
Kerry Rupp of True Wealth VC gives advice to young aspiring entrepreneurs about learning to adapt to a change in environment and network properly. She further explains what it is exactly that investors look for in coming of age startups!
Recent News
September 14, 2020 – Forbes: The Rise Of Vegan Food Hacks That Don’t Compromise Nutrition
True Wealth's portfolio company reBlend is featured as a nutritional hack that aligns with COVID challenges,including eating more locally and sustainably while limiting how much we visit the grocery store.
September 1, 2020 – Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin: We Rise
HBS alumnae and faculty weigh in on what it would take to close venture capital’s long-standing gender gap, including True Wealth Ventures’ Kerry Rupp (MBA 1999).
September 11, 2020 – Authority Magazine: Social Impact Investors: How Sara T Brand of True Wealth Ventures Is Helping To Create Women-Led Companies That Help Improve Environmental and Human Health
Interview with Sara T Brand, Founding General Partner of True Wealth Ventures. It is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in women-led businesses whose core value proposition is improving environmental and/or human health.
September 8, 2020 – Times of Entrepreneurship: Venture Capital Spotlight: True Wealth Ventures Bets Investing in Women-Led Startups Pays Off
Founded in 2015, True Wealth Ventures is focused on investing in women-led startups who have proven the ability to financially outperform.
August 18, 2020 – Medium: The Forrest Files: Kerry Rupp Tells Why True Wealth Ventures Focuses on Female Founders
A General Partner at Austin-based True Wealth Ventures, Kerry Rupp says that startups led by diverse teams tend to financially outperform startups led by all-male teams.
July 30, 2020 – WBUR: An Ocean Of Culinary Possibilities Using Fresh Seaweed Harvested in the US
Read about Atlantic Sea Farms’ kelp and some great recipes - and how beyond sushi restaurants and roasted snacks, seaweed is increasingly accepted, appreciated, even adored, in American kitchens for good reason.
June 10, 2020 – Eating Well: Meet the Woman Greening Up the Ocean & Atmosphere with Kelp
President & CEO of Atlantic Sea Farms, Briana Warner, is using an unlikely plant to help clean up the ocean and more.
June 8, 2020 – Austin Business Journal: Investing in a time of turmoil: Austin VCs talk funding slowdown, give advice to entrepreneurs
Mike Cronin of the Austin Business Journal interviewed a number of Austin-based VCs to talk about the “precipitous drop in funding-round closings by local startups the past few weeks [which] has coincided with economic turmoil due to the ongoing pandemic and, more recently, nationwide unrest after the death of George Floyd." Sara and Kerry weigh in along with 9 other Austin VCs.
May 19, 2020 – The Guardian: ‘I’m not a quitter’: lobstermen turn to kelp farming in the face of climate crisis
True Wealth Venture’s portfolio co. Atlantic Sea Farms is the first commercial seaweed farm and nursery in North America. Read this incredible article featuring interviews with some of their partner farmers who are turning to kelp farming in the face of climate crisis.
May 2020 – Austin Woman: Lean In with Sara Brand & Kerry Rupp
Exactly 3 years after being on the cover of May 2017’s Austin Woman, Sara and Kerry were back to speak about what they’ve been doing since that cover story and how they’re pursuing gender equity as venture capitalists.