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Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
University of Texas at Austin University of California at Berkeley |
Occupation | Businesswoman |
Organization(s) | True Wealth Ventures (512) Brewing Company |
Sara T. Brand is an American business executive. [1] She is the founder of True Wealth Ventures and co-founder of (512) Brewing Company. [1] [2]
Brand grew up in both Wisconsin and Arizona. [2]
Brand obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. [3]
She enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996 and graduated in 1998 with a master's degree in mechanical engineering and a management of technology certification from Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and then a doctorate degree in mechanical engineering in 2000. [3] [4]
Before her career in venture capital, Brand worked as a semiconductor researcher in several companies including Intel and Applied Materials, and she served as a strategic management consultant at McKinsey & Company. [3] She also worked at Fremont Ventures in San Francisco for a few years before joining AMD, where she stayed over a decade until 2015, leading AMD's acquisition integration of ATI Technologies in 2006 and reporting directly to three of the company's four CEOs during her tenure. [3]
In 2008, she and her husband, Kevin Brand, co-founded (512) Brewing Company. [5] [6]
She started True Wealth Ventures, a female-focused venture capital firm, in 2015, where she also serves as the Founding General Partner. [3] [7] The firm's investment focus is explicitly on women-led companies improving human and environmental health. [8] In January 2018, when they closed their first fund at $19.1M, it made True Wealth Ventures Fund I the largest traditional VC fund ever raised with an explicit gender-diversity investment strategy and around 80 percent of their investors were women. [9] [10]
In June 2022, they announced the closing of their oversubscribed $35M Fund II, again backed by 80 percent women LPs. [11] [12]
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Occupation | Businesswoman |
Organization(s) | True Wealth Ventures (512) Brewing Company |
Sara T. Brand is an American business executive. [1] She is the founder of True Wealth Ventures and co-founder of (512) Brewing Company. [1] [2]
Brand grew up in both Wisconsin and Arizona. [2]
Brand obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. [3]
She enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996 and graduated in 1998 with a master's degree in mechanical engineering and a management of technology certification from Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and then a doctorate degree in mechanical engineering in 2000. [3] [4]
Before her career in venture capital, Brand worked as a semiconductor researcher in several companies including Intel and Applied Materials, and she served as a strategic management consultant at McKinsey & Company. [3] She also worked at Fremont Ventures in San Francisco for a few years before joining AMD, where she stayed over a decade until 2015, leading AMD's acquisition integration of ATI Technologies in 2006 and reporting directly to three of the company's four CEOs during her tenure. [3]
In 2008, she and her husband, Kevin Brand, co-founded (512) Brewing Company. [5] [6]
She started True Wealth Ventures, a female-focused venture capital firm, in 2015, where she also serves as the Founding General Partner. [3] [7] The firm's investment focus is explicitly on women-led companies improving human and environmental health. [8] In January 2018, when they closed their first fund at $19.1M, it made True Wealth Ventures Fund I the largest traditional VC fund ever raised with an explicit gender-diversity investment strategy and around 80 percent of their investors were women. [9] [10]
In June 2022, they announced the closing of their oversubscribed $35M Fund II, again backed by 80 percent women LPs. [11] [12]