Please enjoy True Wealth Ventures’ news features, research blogs and articles about the Fund’s portfolio companies and founders.
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.
February 1, 2023 – Q1 2023 Update: Making an Impact in 2022: A Year-End Review and Update from TWV
Check out our January newsletter with a new investment announcement, our first exit and VC learning opportunities.
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 [...]
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. [...]
November 28, 2022 – Dallas Morning News: Despite tough market, female founders prove resilient in venture capital landscape
Texas female-founded companies have received nearly $8 billion in investments in more than 1,300 deals over the last [...]
March 3, 2022 – Sharenett: Spotlight: True Wealth Ventures
ShareNett's March #changetheroom interviews Sara Brand, Ph.D. and Kerry Rupp about their journey, and bringing more womens’ capital to female founders.
August 29, 2023 – TechCrunch: Refiberd sews up $3.4M seed round to use its AI to tackle textile waste
The fashion industry is sitting on a heaping pile of a problem. Over 14 million tons of clothing [...]
August 28, 2023 – The Wall Street Journal: Heating Waters Force Change in Industries That Depend on the Ocean
In Maine, lobsters are heading north and some lobstermen are moving into kelp farming. On the West Coast, [...]
November 6, 2018 – 1Mby1M Podcast: Kerry Rupp on True Wealth Ventures’ women-focused investment thesis
Kerry Rupp discusses True Wealth Ventures' women-focused investment thesis on the 1Mby1M podcast. Listen here.
May 3, 2018 – The Culture Book: Excerpt From Dr. Sara Brand of True Wealth Ventures
The Culture Book — a project in partnership between Culturati & Weeva, is a professional anthology of stories and advice on [...]
Recent News
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
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
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
March 18, 2022 – Martha Stewart Living: Our Favorite American-Made Companies to Support Now and Always
Atlantic Sea Farms in Marth Stewart Living: Kelp is on the Way!
ImpactAssets: True Wealth Ventures was selected as an IA 50 2022 Fund Manager
True Wealth Ventures was selected to the ImpactAssets 50 2022, graduating from an Emerging Manager in 2021 to a full-blown Fund Manager in 2022
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) .
March 3, 2022 – Sharenett: Spotlight: True Wealth Ventures
ShareNett's March #changetheroom interviews Sara Brand, Ph.D. and Kerry Rupp about their journey, and bringing more womens’ capital to female founders.
February 9, 2022 – World Economic Forum: The Circulars Accelerator 2022 – Meet the 17 start-ups leading innovation towards a circular economy
Check out Queen of Raw’s “day in the life video” feature at 28:30 from the World Economic Forum’s live broadcast in partnership with Nike.
February 16, 2022 – Pet Food Processing: Women in the Pet Industry: Meet Anne Carlson of Jiminy’s
CEO Anne Carlson shares her journey with Jiminy's and how she keeps sustainability and transparency at the forefront.
February 1, 2022 – TWV Fund I Impact Report & Driving Energy Savings on the Road
A New Year’s update on True Wealth Ventures: Fund I Impact Report & Driving Energy Savings on the Road