Trish Costello

Founder & CEO at Portfolia

Speaker

Trish Costello, co-founded the prestigious Kauffman Fellows Program in 1994 at the Kauffman Foundation. At Kauffman Fellows, she created the first training program for venture capital partners and launched the careers of many VC leaders, including numerous women VCs. Trish realized there was a culture around the VC industry that did not reflect how women liked to operate. Traditional VCs were not funding the types of founders, products, and solutions that women wanted in the world, and adding 1-2 women to an existing venture firm was not shifting the equation.

Trish saw an opportunity to create a best-in-class community and culture that united and empowered women to invest in innovative companies that have outsized potential for returns and impact – and Portfolia was born.

At Portfolia, our global network of top VCs source best-in-class companies and high-value deals and bring deep experience to each fund. We have 13 funds in market and invest in 8-12 companies per fund. The performance of our first two funds places us in the top quartile of venture funds launched 2016, 2017.*

With Portfolia, women can learn about venture investing by watching pitch calls, doing diligence and providing expertise from their own industries and consumer preferences, dedicating as much or as little time as they like. Portfolia is often invited into deals by those seeking a valuable, additional layer of validation through endorsement by female investors.

We are leading by bringing others to invest in the solutions that women want in the world.