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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.
November 8, 2017 – Forbes: Women Get It Done: Fixing The Broken Venture Capital System
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” so the saying goes. Venture capitalists may think it ain’t broke but [...]
October 25, 2017 – Forbes: Sexual Discrimination, The State Of Venture Capital And How To Fix It
Sara is Founding General Partner at True Wealth Ventures, a venture capital fund investing in early stage women-led businesses In this [...]
November 5, 2021 – Startup+Health: NexStride, by De Oro Devices, Is Giving People With Parkinson’s the Gift of Mobility
CEO Sidney Collin has invented a novel device that helps people with Parkinson’s overcome ‘freezing of gait’
October 20, 2021 – Forbes: Reimagining The Fashion Industry By Designing Out Waste
Listen or read about TWV’s Queen of Raw in conversation with a member of the Executive Board of SAP
Recent News
February 13, 2018 – CISION: Austin-Based True Wealth Ventures Closes over $19MM in Committed Capital
True Wealth Ventures, led by seasoned entrepreneurs and investors Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp, today announced the close of [...]
January 4, 2018 – Austin Business Journal: 10 People Poised to Make an Impact in the New Year: Austin’s People to Watch in 2018
Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp of True Wealth Ventures As the only Austin venture capitalists who explicitly seek out [...]
January 5, 2018 – Austin Business Journal: Founding Partner Sara Brand Shares Exclusive Executive Advice for Success in Business and Life
Name: Sara Brand, founding general partner, True Wealth Ventures Description: As one of the few women leading a venture [...]
January 3, 2018 – Forbes: How More Women Are Stepping Up To Fund Women Entrepreneurs In 2018
Women’s activism to correct this injustice has been building, as evidenced by the rising tide of financing options for [...]
December 28, 2017 – Austin Business Journal: Sara Brand, Venture Capitalist Chosen as Business Person of the Year
It came down to a venture capitalist and a pair of renegade Realtors who shook up the status quo. [...]
January 4, 2018 – Austin Business Journal: Best Photos of 2017
With all of the dramatic changes taking place in Austin these days, from the ever-shifting skyline to the hundreds [...]
November 29, 2017 – The University of Texas: UT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering Unveils Distinguished Alumni Recognition Wall, Honors 2017 Inductees
True Wealth Ventures’ Founding General Partner Sara T Brand was recently inducted into the Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Academy. [...]
December 11, 2017 – UT Success Story: University of Texas at Austin & True Wealth Ventures Partner to Help Female-Founded Startups Access Elusive Venture Dollars
Recent research in the high tech entrepreneurship world finds companies that are most inclusive of women in top governing [...]
December 11, 2017 – The Institute: How Female Entrepreneurs Can Get Funding for Their Startups
By MONICA ROZENFELD Did you know that only 2 percent of startups funded by venture capitalists last year were founded by [...]
Nov 21, 2017 – Forbes: How To Finally Fix The Gender Gap In VC
In this Part II of a two-part series, we identify systemic problems with the current institutions that fund venture [...]