GPG Ventures is a healthcare venture capital firm with 100+ portfolio companies. Founded in 2011, GPG invests nationally in early-stage biotech, medtech, digital health, B2B consumer health, and select B2B general tech. The firm's partners invest in every deal, and LPs invest alongside the partners via SPVs. GPG also has a follow-on opportunity fund and funds for family offices. The firm is built on 80+ years of experience, an extensive LP investor network, and offices in Dallas, Houston, and Austin.Also known as Green Park & Golf Ventures, the founding partners formed GPG after selling two healthcare companies to a $7B health system. With partners who’ve worked and invested together for decades, the team includes a physician, a PhD scientist, entrepreneurs, executives, and financial analysts, delivering significant expertise and portfolio company support. In 2013, GPG partners co-founded a healthcare accelerator, Health Wildcatters, through which the firm has supported another 100+ early-stage companies. Learn more at https://www.gpgventures.com.

The Kauffman Fellowship is a top innovation and leadership organization for senior venture capital leaders, who are thoughtfully vetted and selected to complete a holistic, rigorous two-year program. The extraordinarily active global network is a lifelong resource for 940+ Fellows, who represent 765 VC firms and institutional LPs, more than $355B AUM, and at least $8.5T in exits. The Kauffman Fellows community reflects society and values diversity of person and experience; Fellows support innovation in 61 countries and are 9x more diverse than the VC industry at large.

Current Portfolia fund LP. Partner in two fully-invested Portfolia funds — Food & AgTech and FemTech I. As an active fund partner, served on the investment committee and sourced and led deals with full due diligence.Portfolia is the world’s most powerful network of women investing in the companies they want in the world for returns and impact. Portfolia fund partners have deployed $54M via 14 VC funds on behalf of 2,000 LPs, 90% of whom are women. While we invest from seed to pre-IPO in all types of founders, impressively, 69% of our portfolio companies are led by female CEOs and 49% by BIPOC individuals. Now with 160 portfolio companies, we are the most active U.S. investor in women’s health, active aging, BIPOC, and sustainability.

◆ Food & AgTech Fund (fully-invested and closed): Led investments in Omsom (acq by DayDayCook), Ox, and Partake Foods; founding fund partner; wrote investment thesis◆ Portfolio: Afresh, Bikky, Black Sheep Foods, Compound Foods, Datasembly, Full Harvest, GrubMarket, Harmony Baby Nutrition, Michroma, Omsom (acq by DayDayCook), Ox, Partake Foods, Rebellyous Foods, Tiamat Sciences, TômTex

◆ FemTech Fund (fully-invested and closed): Co-led investment in Aria CV; first U.S. VC fund to focus solely on women's health investing◆ Portfolio: AeenaDx, Aria CV, Bone Health Technologies, Future Family, Madorra, Maven Clinic, Sana Health, Willow Innovations

LOHAS is leading the next generation of philanthropy via tax-advantaged impact investing. With structures such as Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs), we help donors align their charitable mission with their investment portfolio. As a result, individuals, family offices, and foundations can unlock their philanthropic capital to support for-profit socially and environmentally impactful funds, companies, projects, and entertainment productions. The LOHAS Group consists of LOHAS Capital, LOHAS Advisors. and LOHAS.org.

Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN) is the pre-eminent organization for senior-level women investment professionals in private equity and venture capital. PEWIN provides members opportunities to network, share ideas, make deep connections with peers, and empower each other to succeed. PEWIN’s mission is to increase the profile of women in private equity; its members collectively represent over $3 trillion in assets under management. Founded in 2008, this global invitation-only organization has more than 1,000 members in decision-making roles, including general partners, limited partners, and other senior PE/VC professionals. More info: https://www.pewin.org

Women in VC is the world's largest community for women in venture capital to connect, collaborate, and create opportunities for each other. Our global community currently includes 5,000+ women investors across 3,000+ venture funds spanning 200+ cities and 65+ countries.

Acquired by DayDayCook, June 2024. Led Portfolia's investment in the Seed round. Other investors included New Fare Partners, N+1 Ventures, Gold House Ventures, Ambush Capital, Potluck Ventures, and Unpopular Ventures.

Led Portfolia's investment in the Series B round. Other investors include FF2032 (Lotus Bakeries’ venture arm), Cleveland Ave, Fearless Fund, Supply Change Capital, Kaya Ventures, CircleUp Growth Partners, Black Star Fund, Precursor Ventures. In addition, much of Partake's funding is from Black investors, such as Rihanna, Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners, Kevin Johnson’s Black Capital, Seattle Seahawks’ Bobby Wagner, and Grammy Award-winning singer, H.E.R.

Led Portfolia's investment in the Seed extension round. Other investors include MaC Venture Capital, Cortado Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Willow Growth Partners, Vuzix, Southern Equity, Astir Ventures, Cadron Capital Partners, Revolution's Rise of the Rest, KCRise Fund, TechSquare Labs, Florida Funders, and Plug & Play.

Co-led Portfolia's investment in the Series B round. Other investors include Catalyst Health Ventures, Broadview Ventures, BioStar Capital, Xeraya Capital, Longview Ventures, Cedar Point Capital, Brightstone Venture Capital, Frontcourt Group, Gravity Fund, Angel Physicians Fund, and MedTech Innovator.

The Bill Munday School of Business incorporates a model of business education that seeks to integrate all of the core school functions with the Austin business ecosystem and works to drive its mission to the marketplace. The Board of Advisors was created to provide guidance, enrichment, and leadership to the Business School.

Advise economic development entities on building and improving startup investing communities. Develop educational programming and major events, such as early-stage investor training, portfolio summits, annual LP meetings, startup pitch competitions, board leadership workshops, fundraising coaching. Build strategic entrepreneur ecosystem partnerships with corporate and civic organizations. Clients have included Hamburg Startups, Northwest Arkansas Council, St. Edward’s University, South Korea’s Banks Foundation for Entrepreneurs, SXSW Conference, Tech Ranch, TIGER 21. (Hiatus while leading LP community, from 2014 to 2019.)

Developed community of 200 LPs into national angel investing model with 5x ROI, far exceeding VC return averages. Led CTAN to #1 U.S. ranking for both capital invested and deal activity. Supervised Investment Associate, MBA Intern.◆ Directed full investing process: sourcing deals, overseeing due diligence, negotiating terms, developing boards.◆ Deployed $75M into 95 new portfolio companies and countless follow-on rounds, including almost $15M in 2018 alone.◆ Improved deal flow quality via targeted founder and community outreach; managed top angel due diligence process.◆ Created new portfolio support platform: portfolio summits, founder coaching, follow-on investor pipeline.◆ Investor relations: trained new high-net-worth and family office LPs in venture asset class; coached investors in due diligence and deal negotiation; designed member experience with investor education and professional networking.◆ Grew LP base 30-40% annually after attrition across most sectors, leading to extensive investor market expertise.◆ Increased LP diversity: 7x more women and 2x more ethnic diversity, while recruiting nearly half of LPs under age 50.◆ Generalist with deep-dive capacity in technology (software, SaaS, AI/ML, VR/AR, IT, apps); deep tech (industrial, drones, IoT, robotics); health (digital health, medtech, biotech); and consumer (CPG, F&B, D2C tech).◆ Portfolio highlights, current status: Austin Cocktails (acq: Constellation Brands), Chowbotics (acq: DoorDash), ClosedLoop AI (post-series B), Curb Energy (acq: Elevation), Haxiot (acq: Digi), HUVRdata (post-series A), Infinite Composites (post-seed), Interplay Learning (post-series B), Neuraptive Therapeutics (post-series A), PreFix (post-seed), Rabbet (post-series B), Recursion Pharma (IPO), Rocket Dollar (post-series A), Roomored (acq by Interior Logic Group), The Helper Bees (post-series B), UnaliWear (post-series A), VISIE (post-Series A), York Space Systems (acq: AE Industrial Partners).

With mission to empower entrepreneurs, led all functions, operations, partnerships, strategy for large event series. Featured 300+ education workshops, pitch competitions, investor forums, plenary sessions annually for more than 4,000 attendees.◆ Raised 2x more funding, securing major new corporate sponsors, including American Airlines, Dell, Hiscox.◆ More than doubled the organization’s membership of business leaders, investors, and founders.◆ Named a Forbes “Must-Attend 2013 Conferences for Entrepreneurs.”

First full-time employee of social media strategy startup; managed client relationships and remote team of 10 contractors.◆ Directed client business requirement discovery, trained clients in digital marketing strategy and tools.◆ Led client solutions: strategy, development, and implementation, while meeting or exceeding all project goals.◆ Expanded client base 4x with new revenue via novel client strategies and product offerings.

Directed strategy, partnerships, media relations, marketing, communications, and fundraising for social impact NGOs, such as Caritas of Austin, Foundation Communities, Houston Grand Opera, and Texas Bicycle Coalition. Highlights:◆ Led public relations for large affordable housing nonprofit: Created multi-year marketing campaign to increase client and volunteer reach of Community Tax Centers, resulting in triple client growth. Positioned organization to media outlets with significant increase in media coverage quality and quantity. Managed two substantial projects from inception and RFP to launch: marketing video and organization website.◆ Overhauled PR/communications for statewide advocacy organization serving 1,500 business and individual members and representing 40,000 Texas cyclists. Authored all external communications, including grant proposals, digital marketing, web content, political action alerts, annual report, curricula, and speeches. Positioned organization as statewide authority; received significant coverage in major Texas newspapers and more than 40 broadcast and print media outlets.◆ Coordinated fundraising events for large social services nonprofit generating more than $200k in donor revenue annually. Created new fundraising event which exceeded its goal of collecting 20,000 pounds of food for homeless and working poor clients.◆ Conducted corporate donor research, produced financial analyses, and managed corporate contributor benefits, such as VIP pre-curtain receptions, for the #2 opera company in the nation.