Trish Costello
Founder & CEO, Portfolia FemTech Fund
Built the first VC fund to invest exclusively in women’s health — and the LP base to match: 90% women.
Trish Costello founded Portfolia’s FemTech Fund as the first venture fund investing exclusively in women’s health, and built its LP base to mirror the thesis: 90% of the fund’s own investors are women, many writing their first venture cheque through it.
Portfolia operates as a platform of themed funds — women’s health among them — specifically designed to lower the access barrier for women who want LP exposure to venture without needing an existing institutional relationship or a seven-figure minimum.
How she invests
Costello built the fund’s access model as deliberately as its investment thesis: a lower minimum and an education-first onboarding process are treated as core to the strategy, not an afterthought bolted onto a standard fund structure.
What an individual investor can take from it
The clearest working example in this directory of a fund built specifically to solve the "how do I become a first-time LP" problem this site's own LP guide addresses — worth studying directly if accessible entry is your main blocker to investing in a fund rather than picking individual companies.
90% of Portfolia FemTech Fund’s LPs are women, many investing in a venture fund for the first time.
Sources
Facts here reflect public reporting at time of writing — roles and fund affiliations change; verify current details directly with Portfolia FemTech Fund.