Claire England

A seasoned investor with executive experience, Claire England is Investment Partner with GPG Ventures, which focuses primarily on healthcare investing. She's building the firm's new Austin presence, helping GPG become the first VC firm with offices in three major Texas cities. In addition to GPG, she's a partner in two Portfolia funds, Food & AgTech and FemTech I, where she made 22 investments. She's also a partner in an impact investing advisory firm, LOHAS.

From 2014 to 2019, Claire grew an Austin community of 200 LPs into a national angel investing model, deploying $75M into 95 new companies and dozens of portfolio companies with a 4.9x ROI, far exceeding VC return averages. She’s a Kauffman Fellow (a global innovation program and network of 882 VCs and LPs) and Techstars Executive-in-Residence; she serves on St. Edward’s University’s Business School Advisory Board; and she received the 2018 Kauffman Fellows Leadership Award.