Kerry Rupp
General Partner at True Wealth Ventures
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2015 - Current
True Wealth Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies that are improving human and/or environmental health. Our portfolio includes: UnaliWear (smart watch for seniors), BrainCheck (cognitive health platform), Dermala (microbiome-based skincare), Ocean Approved / Atlantic Sea Farms (kelp), Solstice (community solar - ACQUIRED), Oralucent (blue & red light toothbrush), reHarvest Provisions (healthy smoothies using repurposed produce - ACQUIRED), VidaFuel (medical nutrition), Queen of Raw (excess inventory reuse/repurpose/recycling), Flowly (VR biofeedback app for pain/anxiety) Jiminy's (sustainable insect-based pet food), Rosy (women's sexual health), Flourish (women's nutrition & body image - ACQUIRED), Aeromutable (aerodynamic drag reduction for trucking), De Oro Devices (device for mobility disorders), Refiberd (sorting technology for textile recycling), Partum Health (wrap-around birth services) and Fort Health (pediatric mental health).
True Wealth Ventures is a venture capital company.
Member Board of Directors
2023
Partum Health helps growing families thrive with modern, proactive care from pre-conception through early parenthood.
Partum Health is a tech-enabled health and wellness provider providing expert care to women ad families.
Raised $6,615,700.00 from Tawani Ventures, True Wealth Ventures, MAGIC Fund, Pioneer Healthcare Partners, The Fund and Bridge Ventures.
Member Board of Directors
2021
Rosy is the first-of-its-kind platform offering women a holistic approach to sexual health and wellness.
Board Observer
2019
Atlantic Sea Farms brings the freshest, healthiest and most delicious seaweed to market.
Atlantic Sea Farms is a Food and Beverage company.
Member Board of Directors
2021 - 2024
reHarvest Provisions (ACQUIRED) delivered tasty and nutrient-dense smoothies that radically tackled food loss via their commitment to reHARVEST and rePURPOSE unnecessarily discarded produce.
Reharvest Provisions produces plant-based smoothie pops.
Raised $2,157,687.00 from Dobson Avenue, Flagstaff Ventures, Chicago Early Growth Ventures (CEGV), CAPTRA CAPITAL, Segal Ventures and True Wealth Ventures.
Member Board of Directors
2019 - 2024
VidaFuel is a dietitian-developed nutritional support company on a mission to increase compliance, improve patient outcomes and help people live healthier lives.
VidaFuel is a dietitian-developed nutritional support company that solves dietary pain points, both in the clinical setting and at home.
Raised $4,478,678.00 from Peter Feinberg, Joseph Kekst, True Wealth Ventures and Michael Krusch.
Member Board of Directors
2021 - 2024
Flourish (ACQUIRED) helped women break the diet cycle and sustain healthy habits through expert counseling, accountability, and community support.
Flourish helps women get healthy for good.
Raised $1,120,000.00 from Halogen Ventures, True Wealth Ventures, Monique Nolk-Yates and Techstars.
Member Board of Directors / Board Observer
2017 - 2023
Comprehensive cognitive health solutions. Empowering physicians to deliver high-quality, personalized cognitive health. Current Board Observer. Board Director May 2017-Aug 2021. Board Observer Sep 2021-Dec 2023.
BrainCheck is a mobile interactive test for cognitive health, allowing users to track their brain health to share results with clinicians.
Raised $41,245,000.00 from UPMC Enterprises, S3 Ventures and Next Coast Ventures.
I-Corps National Faculty
2016 - 2020
The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) is an entrepreneurship and technology commercialization training program for the nation's leading scientists and engineers in academic research. The program leverages Steve Blank's LeanLaunchPad curriculum to provide real world, hands-on training on how to successfully incorporate innovations into successful products. The ultimate goal is to help program participants create a new venture or licensing opportunity.
National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports research and education in the fields of science and engineering.
Mentor
2015 - 2019
Capital Factory’s mission is to be the center of gravity for tech startups and entrepreneurs in Austin, Texas. http://capitalfactory.com/
Capital Factory is a venture capital firm and an accelerator that seeks to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies.