Portfolia Rising America Funds

Portfolia Rising America Funds

Portfolia operates as a venture capital platform designed to activate women as angel and early-stage investors. Founded by Trish Costello, the firm structures thematic funds—including the Rising America Funds—that allow members to participate in venture deals alongside institutional co-investors. The platform emerged from a thesis that gender-diverse investor bases lead to better coverage of markets serving women and diverse consumers. The Rising America Funds specifically target growth-stage companies outside traditional coastal venture hubs, with deployment spanning enterprise software, digital health, fintech, and consumer brands. The firm backs companies with demonstrated revenue traction and diverse founding teams. The platform's model layers a network of individual accredited investors on top of institutional-grade deal sourcing and due diligence, creating a hybrid structure between an angel network and a traditional venture firm. Portfolio companies and co-investors are not publicly catalogued in a central, verifiable directory. Portfolia maintains a presence in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The firm does not publicly disclose total assets under management or aggregate deployment figures. Its funds operate on a rolling subscription basis, and the Rising America vehicle is one of several thematic funds in the platform. The firm's leadership has stated publicly that it has backed over 100 companies since inception, though exact current counts and fund-level performance metrics remain private. Portfolia's structural distinction lies in its investor-activation model: rather than raising capital from a small number of institutional limited partners, it aggregates participation from a broad base of individual accredited investors—overwhelmingly women—who gain both access and education through the platform. This creates a sourcing advantage for companies targeting women-led households and diverse consumer segments that traditional venture firms often overlook.