This originally appeared in San Antonio Business Journal An Austin-based venture capital firm with a unique investment strategy has plans to evaluate and potentially invest in San Antonio area technology startups in the coming months. True Wealth Ventures, co-founded by Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp, pitched their idea to the San Antonio Angel Network investors [...]
This article originally appeared in Silicon Hills News By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Senior Reporter with Silicon Hills News Women run startups outperform all male teams yet they still struggle to get venture capital. That’s a problem Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp, with True Wealth Ventures, are seeking to solve. They are raising a $20 [...]
This article originally appeared in Duke I&E Kerry Rupp ’93 didn’t know much about entrepreneurship in college, but she was always interested in business. The biology major took accounting and marketing classes while at Duke, and she took a consulting job after college. She went to business school five years after graduating, and since then, she’s [...]
This article originally appeared in Rivard Report Data and timing are on the side of Austin entrepreneur Jean Anne Booth, whose latest invention is a smartwatch aimed at senior citizens like her mother, who still lives independently in her San Antonio home. According to a study by the Kauffman Foundation, venture-backed companies with a woman [...]
This article originally appeared on Dallas Morning News. THE CONNECTORS: Conversations with visionaries, investors and entrepreneurs from North Texas who are making a mark in the business world After years of working in Austin and the San Francisco Bay Area, Sara Brand had a stunning realization: She had never met a woman in venture capital. [...]
`This podcast originally appeared on InsideATX. Today we talk with the fabulously positive and interesting Kerry Rupp. Kerry is a successful venture capitalist who started out as a biology major, was a coder at a consulting firm, and then was an entrepreneur herself, before she decided to invest in women-led tech companies. Kerry has traveled [...]
This article originally appeared on OnTheDotWoman. WOMEN TO WATCH: Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp, Co-founders of True Wealth Ventures When I spoke to Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp on the phone about this topic, they were running errands, picking up kids and dishing out stats like it was nothing. They’re the two impressive businesswomen who [...]
This video originally appeared on M17 Health Tech Draft. This week's 2016 Health Tech Draft includes special guest Kerry Rupp (@Kerry_Rupp) - former CEO of DreamIt Ventures and current General Partner of True Wealth Ventures. Kerry identifies her top pick of the week and talks about health data breaches and consumer healthcare apps such as [...]
This article originally appeared on Austin Woman. By Sarah E. Ashlock The first thing that comes to light when speaking with Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp of True Wealth Ventures is that they’ve got the data to back up their business. Brand and Rupp launched their venture-capitalist firm in Austin this July. “We couldn’t have [...]
This article originally appeared on AustinInno. True Wealth Ventures, an Austin-based venture capital firm focused on women-led companies, has raised $4.7 million of a planned $20 million fund. The firm has already begun vetting several Austin-based startups, and it will likely announce its first investment sometime this fall, Founding General Partner Sara Brand said. True [...]
