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Precision Medicine through a female lens

We are Europe's only dedicated women's health investment fund. Investing since 2021 and now raising a £100mn fund, we invest in pioneering technology businesses built to offer personalised healthcare to the four billion women worldwide.

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Goddess Gaia Ventures (GGV) is capitalising on the $1.1 trillion women’s healthcare market by investing in five core pillars - women's fertility; women's cancer; women's wellness; women's lifestyle diseases and Femtech products and services.

Women-centred healthcare has been historically overlooked and underfunded, despite women accounting for 51% of the population. With only 4% of all healthcare research and funding going to women’s health, and 65% of that is focused on fertility, there is a clear need to have a differentiated and specialised approach towards the healthcare needs for women.

Through our pre-series A investments, we invest in founders who want to build extraordinary companies that will be impactful and change the world.

We are always looking for the next big idea. Get in touch. We'd love to meet you.

About

Team

PRIYA OBEROI

FOUNDING GENERAL PARTNER

Priya is the General Partner of Goddess Gaia Ventures (GGV). Priya conceptualised and started to build GGV in 2021 after a long-held belief that women’s healthcare is greatly underserved and underfunded and there remains huge, untapped market potential in this investment vertical.

Priya is an avid angel investor and has demonstrated access and a winning formula when investing in promising start-ups.

Priya is also the founder of Oberoi Capital Partners. She built, managed and ran the investment firm for over ten years, providing fund raising expertise, strategic business advice and multi-channel scale-up positioning across different asset classes and distinct investment strategies.

Priya is a finance and derivatives lawyer by background and training, attaining of-counsel recognition in 2010 at a magic circle law firm.

Priya holds a B.A. (Hons) and MA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford.

AYA SUZUKI, CFA

HEAD OF OPERATIONS, PARTNER

Waseda Alumni | Chartered Financial Analyst | Ex Capital Markets Banker | Cross Border Transactions | Working Mother

Aya is an experienced banker, having worked for 12 years at UBS Investment Bank in London and Tokyo. Aya worked as a Debt Capital Markets professional focusing on deal execution, business development and client relationship management experience.

Aya not only has an exceptional technical background, but also understands the importance of collaboration, out-of-the-box thinking, technology, mentorship and D&I.

She was most recently responsible for the origination, distribution and execution of private placements for a broad range of institutional clients worldwide and has extensive experience delivering cross-border solutions for her clients. She is bilingual in English and Japanese.

Aya holds a B.A. in Economics from Waseda University, Japan.

MARISSA K FAYER

GGV INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER

Marissa has spent the last 22 years growing Medical Device companies into world-class organizations with a distinct blend of Engineering, Operations, Quality, Product Development, and tactical skills. She is a strategic advisor and board member of several venture-backed private companies and has taken on executive leadership in several of the companies she has worked with. Marissa is a UCSC Miller Center Social Entrepreneur Fellow and has been listed as one of the Top 100 Women in Medtech.

Marissa holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Boston University and an MBA from the University of Connecticut.

MARIA MOLLAND

GGV INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER

As the former CEO and Board Member of Thinx, a feminine hygiene company specializing in period underwear, Maria transformed a struggling $10M business into a thriving $130M+ global brand. Under her leadership, Thinx achieved disruptive success with a robust culture, a top-tier product available in various distribution channels, and a strategic sale to Kimberly Clark in early 2022. Maria adeptly managed challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic and a class action lawsuit, while securing a $25M Series A fundraise.

Maria serves on multiple boards, advises startups, and partners with a European venture capital firm to scale their health and wellness portfolio globally. She is a prominent speaker on entrepreneurship, capital raising, and profitable scaling. Passionate about female leadership, women's health, and sustainability, Maria brings extensive experience to her diverse roles.

Maria holds a Bachelor in Economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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