Please enjoy True Wealth Ventures’ news features, research blogs and articles about the Fund’s portfolio companies and founders.
January 15, 2024 – This Investor started one of the largest Microbreweries in the U.S. || Ft. Sara Brand
"I realized that I was the only female Vice President with any technology or operating background in a [...]
May 2, 2023 – Austin Woman: General Partners: The Champions of Female-Founded Businesses
Get a glimpse into how a physicist, yogi and celebrity legal expert are making waves in Austin’s venture [...]
Winter 2021 – Real Leaders: 50 Innovative Impact Investors
TWV was profiled in Real Leaders as once of 50 Innovative Impact Investors (check out page 57) .
February 23, 2021 – ImpactAssets: ImpactAssets’ Tenth IA 50 Impact Fund Listing Reveals Growing Market and Innovative Managers
True Wealth Ventures has been selected to the ImpactAssets 50 2021, a global list of impact fund managers recognized for demonstrated potential to create positive impact across sectors and asset classes.
May 2, 2023 – Austin Woman: General Partners: The Champions of Female-Founded Businesses
Get a glimpse into how a physicist, yogi and celebrity legal expert are making waves in Austin’s venture [...]
April 18, 2023 – Texas CEO Magazine: More Than 2 Percent
True Wealth Ventures Founding General Partner Sara Brand wants to change the numbers for women in venture capital investing.
January 26, 2024 – De Oro Devices Names Cori Lathan, PhD, as New CEO
Dr. Lathan brings two decades of medical technology with her to drive the health tech startup forward SAN LUIS [...]
September 4, 2023 – Vogue Business: The circular fashion challenge: Can AI help to close the loop?
Specialist companies are racing to find technology-fuelled solutions so that ultimately all textiles can be recycled with confidence.
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.
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.
Recent News
June 28, 2022 – PitchBook: True Wealth Ventures collects $35M for sophomore fund
PitchBook reports on TWV’s second flagship fund.
June 28, 2022 – Austin Inno: Funding wrap: True Wealth Ventures closes $35M fund to back women entrepreneurs
Austin Inno reports on TWV Fund II closing.
June 27, 2022 – Venture Capital Journal: Women-focused True Wealth Ventures raises $35m for second fund
Venture Capital Journal reports of the TWV Fund II Close.
June 28, 2022 – Business Wire: True Wealth Ventures Raises $35 Million Fund II to Double Down on the Thesis that Women-Led Companies Outperform
Our Fund II press release for raising $35M to double down on the thesis that women-led companies outperform.
June 27, 2022 – FinSMEs: True Wealth Ventures Closes $35M Fund II
FinSMEs reports of $35M True Wealth Ventures Fund II close.
June 21, 2022 – Cision: Dermala, A Consumer Dermatology Company, Announces Issuance of the 4th U.S. Patent Covering Human Microbiome to Treat and Prevent Eczema
SAN DIEGO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DERMALA Inc., a science-based consumer dermatology company developing novel, microbiome-based solutions for [...]
June 7, 2022 – Cision PR Newswire: Dermala, A Consumer Dermatology Company, Launches At-Home, Personalized Skin Tests
DERMALA launches Skin Tests to measure the oil level and pH of the skin to better personalize their monthly acne treatment
May 24, 2022 – CISION: Dermala, A Consumer Dermatology Company, Announces Their Second Microbiome-Powered Line of Topical and Oral Products for Eczema-Prone Skin
TWV’s portco Dermala extends its product range to include a 2nd microbiome-powered line of products for eczema
May 10, 2022 – Cision: Consumer dermatology company, Dermala, launches post-acne microbiome balancing maintenance line
Consumer dermatology company, Dermala, launches post-acne microbiome balancing maintenance line
May 5, 2022 – Forbes: The 10 Best Dog Food Delivery Services, According To Trusted Vets
TWV’s portco Jiminy's recognized as the "Best Sustainable Dog Food" on Forbes list