Amboy Street Ventures, a Los Angeles, CA-based enterprise capital agency targeted on girls’s well being and sexual well being for all genders, closed its debut $20m fund.
Amboy Avenue is backed by predominantly feminine Restricted Companions who’re driving the world’s main monetary establishments: 10+ Companions and Administrators from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Financial institution of America; Founders of distinguished funds together with Summit Companions and First Spherical Capital; Senior Executives at prime Hedge Funds and Non-public Fairness funds together with Fortress Funding Group and Citadel; Profitable Founders; and Deliberate Parenthood Executives.
With this fund, Amboy Avenue will spend money on the Seed and Sequence A phases of ladies’s well being and sexual well being startups to each elevate related stigmas and usher ahead a brand new world of inclusive well being and wellbeing.
Based by investor and former engineer Carli Sapir and supported by Normal Companions Dominique Karetsos and Dr. Maria Godoy, leaders within the girls’s and sexual well being trade, Amboy Avenue has already invested in eight startups and realized its first exit as Gennev (a telehealth and product line for menopausal girls) was acquired by Unified Ladies’s Healthcare. Different startups within the portfolio which might be pushing the trade ahead embody:
- Evvy – vaginal microbiome testing and care
- Hey Jane – telehealth abortion entry
- Contraline – male contraception
- Dame Merchandise – female-focused sexual pleasure merchandise
- HerMD – telehealth and brick-and-mortar menopause and sexual well being companies
- Aunt Move – free menstrual merchandise for greater than 19,000 bogs nationwide
- Dipsea – audio erotica subscription app
FinSMEs
15/03/2023
