Claire England
Partner, Food & AgTech Fund | FemTech Fund @ Portfolia
Austin, United States
Claire England is a seed investor at Portfolia in Austin focused on Health Care and Medical Device. A seasoned investor with executive experience, Claire England is Investment Partner with GPG Ventures, a healthcare venture capital firm with more than 100 portfolio companies nationally. GPG opens venture-ready investing opportunities in the $4.3 trillion U.S. healthcare market to family offices and individuals, who invest in companies directlyalongside the firm's partners. The firm is built on more than 60 years of healthcare, operational, and financial experience with an extensive syndicate investor network and offices in Dallas, Houston, and Austin.In addition to GPG, she's a partner in two Portfolia funds, Food & AgTech and FemTech I, where she made 22 investments, and a partner in an impact investing advisory firm, LOHAS. She’s also a Kauffman Fellow (a global innovation program and network of 882 VCs and LPs) and a member of Private Equity Women Investor Network, or PEWIN. She serves on St. Edward’s University’s Business School Advisory Board, and she received the 2018 Kauffman Fellows Leadership Award.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
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Industries Claire England invests in
Stages Claire England invests in
Countries Claire England invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 6 (40%)
- Medical Device 4 (27%)
- Wellness 3 (20%)
- Women's 2 (13%)
- Software 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (40%)
- Series A 3 (20%)
- Series B 3 (20%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
Investments
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| Affineon is the AI inbox that saves provider time. We automatically handle normal and clinically insignificant lab results, and help providers get through abnormal lab results faster. Our AI automatically groups, analyzes, and trends lab results into a smart summary, including possible next steps and a complete patient note. We also route"noise" to staff, reducing the number of messages a physician needs to pay attention to by up to 30%. The result is 5+ hours saved per week per provider. Plus, Affineon tightly integrates with the EHR, so providers don’t need to change their existing workflow. | $5M / Seed / Feb 03, 2025 | ||
| Partake Foods is a food and beverage company that specializes in selling allergy-friendly cookies. The company's products are free of the top 12 allergens so families can eat safely, healthfully, and deliciously — even on-the-go. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. | $20.8M / Series B / Oct 04, 2022 | ||
| Omsom is a venture-backed CPG brand bringing proud, loud Asian flavors into American homes. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York. | Seed / Aug 15, 2022 | ||
| Zero Grocery provides a convenient zero-waste grocery delivery service. Zero Grocery's mission is to remove single-use plastics from the food system so customers will receive groceries in reusable containers. | Seed / Nov 29, 2021 | ||
| Ox is an enterprise software provider that develops human-centered automation systems across the supply chain. The Operator Experience directs frontline operators to perform their work through software automation, wearable displays, and artificial intelligence to deliver operational excellence. | $3.5M / Seed / Mar 02, 2021 | ||
| Madorra Their goal is empowering women to live fuller, healthier lives. Madorra is working towards changing the paradigm for treating vaginal dryness, by providing a medical device solution to a problem that has previously only been served by pharmaceuticals. They are focused on giving post-menopausal women and breast cancer survivors the power tochoose the non-hormonal treatment option they want. | Seed / Dec 01, 2020 | ||
| Solace Therapeutics is a medical device company that develops and commercializes non-surgical office-based treatments for common bladder disorders, such as stress urinary incontinence (SUI), overactive bladder (OAB), male voiding dysfunction and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). It is dedicated to improving the patient’s quality of life byeliminating side effects typically associated with current drug and surgical therapies.The company offers a technology that is designed to offer patients an office-based therapy that does not require anesthesia or surgery, no lifestyle change required, before or after treatment, and reversible at any time. | Series A / Apr 01, 2020 | ||
| Aria CV was founded in 2010 by Drs. John Scandurra and Karl Vollmers, formerly Fellows at the University of Minnesota’s Medical Devices Center. Aria has an exclusive license to certain patents from the University of Minnesota. Aria CV’s device has the potential to improve outcomes by reducing the workload on the right side of the heart. | $31M / Series B / Feb 25, 2020 | ||
| Sana Health is an audio-visual neuromodulation device, that provides anxiety relief on-demand - multiple applications in pain and mental health, 2 pivotal studies are underway in Fibromyalgia (FDA designated breakthrough device) and Neuropathic Pain. Anxiety and PTSD trials starting in Q2 2022, DoD grant for PTSD.SOSV, Founders Fund, Noetic Fund,Harmonix, Dreamit, Esplanade, Bridge Builders Collective, Menlo Ventures. | Seed / Nov 11, 2019 | ||
| Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows | Jul 12, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Portfolia
Portfolia connects sophisticated investors and leaders with entrepreneurial companies. Their platform enables users to collaborate with other members and lead investors to evaluate innovative products and teams, join diligence teams, and immerse themselves in the investment process. It is an investment fund designed for women while backinginnovative companies for returns and impact.
Portfolia Contacts
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Trish Costello
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Valentina Vitols
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Abbe Kligerman
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Bethann Kassman
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What does Claire England invest in?
Claire England invests primarily in Health Care, Medical Device and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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