Claire England

A seasoned investor with executive experience, Claire England is Investment Partner with GPG Ventures, a healthcare venture capital firm that invests nationally in biotech, digital health, medtech, and B2B consumer health. With offices in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, GPG was established in 2011, has more than 100 portfolio companies, and is built on decades of deep healthcare and investing expertise. GPG opens venture-ready opportunities in the massive U.S. healthcare market — almost 20% of GDP or $4.8T annually — to individuals and family offices, who invest alongside the firm's partners.

Prior to GPG Ventures, she was a partner in two Portfolia funds, Food and AgTech and FemTech, where she led four deals and served on the investment committee for 20 more. Previously, she developed Central Texas Angel Network into the #1 most active angel group in the U.S. and an international angel investing model. In her five years of leadership, investors deployed $75M into 95 companies, with a 9x average return-on-investment.

Claire is a Kauffman Fellow (a top innovation program of 940 VCs and LPs worldwide) and an operating partner in an impact investing advisory firm, LOHAS. She serves on the Munday School of Business Advisory Board at St. Edward's University and is a Board Observer at Affineon Health. She received the 2018 Kauffman Fellows Leadership Award and Austin Business Journal's Women in Business Finalist Award in 2013.