Tuesday, May 9 | 7pm | Sunset Lounge
There is a depth of professional knowledge, experience, and accomplishments within The Cove community. Meet at the Sunset Lounge to share and help your fellow Cove neighbors.
Let’s come together for an evening to talk about what we do professionally and how as a community we can help each other – whether it is referrals, direct business, or support.
A Note from Silvia Damen:
Hi Neighbors!
Don't forget to save the date for next Tuesday's (May 9th) Business Networking meeting at 7pm in the Sunset Lounge. Our neighbor Trish Costello will be the featured speaker, and will share with us a bit about Portfolia.co - a Venture Capital company she founded that focuses on investing in Female and LGBTQ Founders that create products and services related to Active Aging, FemTech, Food & Ag, among other companies we want to see in this world. She is highly inspiring and has offered thousands of women (and some men) a seat at the VC table that has in the past been limited to super-wealthy (98% men). Through Portfolia, we can also participate in Pitch calls - sort of like Shark Tank. I've been a member for almost 2 years, and it's been super fun, inspiring and I've learned a ton! Hope to see you on May 9th at 7pm at the Sunset Lounge.
Resident:
Silvia Damen
silvia.damen@gmail.com
Featured Speaker: Trish Costello
Trish Costello is CEO and Founder of Portfolia and Managing Director of Portfolia Funds. Portfolia’s 14 venture capital funds focus on industries that over-index for women, including Active Aging and Longevity, FemTech, Food/AgTech, Green & Sustainability, and Rising America (diversity). Portfolia created the first venture capital fund with a sole focus on women’s health in 2018, and the first led by five women of color partners in 2019. Portfolia is the most active VC firm in the US investing in women’s health and in health conditions that impact women differently, with over 40 investments, and a total of 145 investments across all fields. Portfolia’s investments include unicorns Everly Health, Grub Market, and Maven Clinic; and noted consumer products companies Madison Reed, Willow Breast Pumps, and Apollo Neuro.
Trish is internationally recognized for her pioneering work in preparing venture capital investment partners through the prestigious Kauffman Fellows Program, which she created and spun out from the Kauffman Foundation and continues as CEO Emeritus. Trish was Founding President of CVE Capital Corp, the holding company of a $1.7 billion venture capital Fund of Funds founded to endow the Kauffman program. Costello was on the start-up team of the Kauffman Foundation’s entrepreneurship center, where she played a leading role nationally in increasing equity investments in women’s businesses and in funding initiatives supporting high-growth women entrepreneurs, as well as equity programs for all high-potential entrepreneurs. Trish led the National Science Foundation SBIR Sub-Committee on Commercialization and was the Director of the Arthur M. Blank Center of Entrepreneurship at Babson College. She led and exited venture-backed companies in the pediatric market earlier in her career.
Trish is on the Board of Directors of the Motley Fool Foundation. Springboard Enterprises and the New York Stock Exchange named her and Portfolia their inaugural Investor of the Year in November, 2022. Entrepreneur Magazine named her to its 2020 inaugural 100 Most Innovative Women Entrepreneurs in the World, and Portfolia won the 2019 Golden Stevie Award for the Year’s Most Innovative Company Run by Women. Fast Company awarded Portfolia as one of the 10 Most Innovative Finance Companies in the World in 2020, along with unicorns Brex and Carta.