Dr. Brand will be a Featured Speaker at Health Tech Austin's Personalized Medicine Summit on June 6th Sara is Founding General Partner at True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in women-led businesses in consumer health and sustainable products and technologies. Throughout her career, Sara has worked with and contributed to some of the [...]
In anticipation of Austin's inaugural FUND Conference, speaker spotlights will be featured on each content provider to highlight their backgrounds, passions and advice to those of us in the space. Today, we share with you Dr. Sara Brand of True Wealth Ventures, speaking on Wednesday, April 25th at our Women Investing in Women Seminar, as well as at the FUND Conference on April [...]
True Wealth Ventures I think it is going to take funds like True Wealth Ventures that have a proactive gender diversity investment strategy to overcome the unconscious bias Texas-based True Wealth Ventures invests in companies in high growth markets that primarily serve women. The firm is interested in investing in companies based in Texas with businesses and [...]
What is True Wealth Ventures? We are an early stage fund focused on women-led companies. We define women-led to mean at least one woman of significant decision-making authority or influence on the founding or executive team. We are two general partners, myself and Kerry Rupp, both based in Austin, Texas and we just closed $19.1 [...]
The Austin-based investment firm raised $19.1 million, which it will use to back women-led health tech ventures and sustainable consumer brands. The founders cite high performance of women-run startups, lack of VC funding for women entrepreneurs and women’s overwhelming influence in consumer purchasing and healthcare decision making as reasons for launching the fund. (We know of at least 58 funds and 13 [...]
An Austin-based venture capital firm co-founded by two women executives has closed on its first big fundraising round from investors. Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp closed their $19.1 million first fund just over two years after Brand founded Austin-based True Wealth Ventures in September 2015. True Wealth Ventures is a mission-driven VC firm. Brand and Rupp target women-led companies in health [...]
True Wealth Ventures has closed its debut fund with $19.1 million in committed capital to invest in female-founded sustainable consumer and healthtech startups in Texas and the rest of the US. The firm has backed companies including smartwatch maker UnaliWear and BrainCheck, which provides a cognitive testing platform for managing mental health. Over 80% of True Wealth's limited partners [...]
Women-led Texas venture firm True Wealth Ventures announced today that it has raised $19.1 million to invest in women-led startups — with more than 80 percent of those funds coming from women. The Austin-based venture firm wants to help close the venture capital gender gap by investing in promising startups across the state, including in Dallas. Its general partners, Sara Brand and Kerry [...]
Austin, Texas-based True Wealth Ventures announced it has raised $19.1 million for its inaugural fund. The firm makes early-stage investments in women-led, sustainable consumer and consumer health tech companies in Texas and nationwide. In addition to its gender impact investment strategy, the firm said that more than 80 percent of its limited partners are women. The firm’s [...]
Venture capitalists face a daunting challenge when raising money for their first fund. “Less than 10 percent of first-time funds reach the finish line,” wrote Mahendra Ramsinghani in his 2014 book, “The Business of Venture Capital," where he noted that only 7 percent of funds raised are by debut funds. That Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp closed their $19.1 million first [...]
