Avestria Ventures
Margot Shapiro serves as Managing Partner at Spiral Sun Ventures, focusing on investments in early-stage companies that enhance health for people, pets, and the environment. As a Board Advisor for Women Entrepreneurs Global, Shapiro supports female entrepreneurs worldwide through a startup innovation platform. Shapiro is also a Venture Partner at Avestria Ventures, specializing in women's health and female-led life sciences, and a Board Member at Brass Roots. Additionally, Shapiro holds a Partner position at LMN Ventures, LLC, investing in Consumer, Life Science, and Health & Wellness sectors, while previously managing Chicklabs, a hybrid incubator for women-led companies. With experience on the Executive Committee of Tech Coast Angels and in roles at Fertile Ground, LLC, and Goldman Sachs, Shapiro's educational background includes an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS/MS in Economics and Applied Earth Science from Stanford University.
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Avestria Ventures
Seeding women's health and life science ventures We founded Avestria Ventures with the belief that opportunities to invest in female entrepreneurs in women's health and the life sciences are being overlooked. With women making 80% of household healthcare decisions and comprising 80% of the healthcare workforce, we believe female entrepreneurs may possess the insight needed to identify and successfully solve the industry’s unmet needs. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beverly Hills, we seek out early stage businesses with a product or service that utilizes technology and/or data to improve the quality of healthcare, improve access, lower costs or empower patients. In order to achieve commercial success, these businesses must be evidence-based, induce clinical or behavioral change, possess scalable commercialization plans which account for healthcare policy, reimbursement and the existing infrastructure and possess a sustainable competitive advantage.