Sara T. Brand

Sara Thurwachter Brand is an American business executive. She is the founder of True Wealth Ventures and co-founder of Brewing Company.

Early life and education Brand grew up in Wisconsin and Arizona. Later, she enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley and completed a master's degree in mechanical engineering and a Management of Technology certificate from the Haas School of Business in 1998. She earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley in 2000.

Career Before entering venture capital, Brand worked as a semiconductor researcher in several companies including Intel and Applied Materials, and as a strategic management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

In 2015, Brand founded True Wealth Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on women-led companies improving human and environmental health, and serves as its founding general partner. The firm's investment focus is explicitly on women-led companies improving human and environmental health. In January 2018, the firm closed its first fund at $19.1 million, making True Wealth Ventures Fund I the largest traditional venture capital fund at the time with an explicit gender-diversity investment strategy; approximately 80 percent of its investors were women. In June 2022, the firm announced the closing of their oversubscribed $35M Fund II, again backed by 80 percent women limited partners.