Swizzle Ventures raises $5 million for women’s health and wealth seed fund

There’s a new venture fund in town. Swizzle Ventures, founded by former Bamboo marketing agency executive Jessica Kamada, raised just over $5 million for Fund I. According to an SEC filing. There was no target increase amount.

Firm, which It quietly opened in 2023is an early stage firm looking to invest in companies that address some of the most pressing issues facing women including care, health and wellbeing and finance. It has invested in at least one company so far, according to PitchBook: mental health platform Mavida Health.

Kamada did not respond to a request for comment.

Coma published a year ago he said he left after seven and a half years at Bamboo with no plans for what to do next. At the company, he was vice president of growth marketing before becoming COO and joining the board of directors. She also worked as a growth consultant at RedDrop, which provides menstrual education to teenagers. Bamboo is known for working with startups and tech firms like Great Jones, Lemonaid and Dropbox, he says.

Swizzle enters the industry at an important time for innovation targeting women. The care industry is going crisis for the costs of maintaining sick family members; women are facing a historic boom in finance from the expected upcoming “wealth transfer”; and women’s health has always been a hot topic, now even more so Overruling of Roe.