Elevate Investment Initiative
Discover and Invest in the Future of Women’s Health
The Elevate Investment Initiative leverages the Milken Institute’s platform to provide emerging and prospective fund managers with engagement opportunities across the Institute’s events and network to channel new, diverse capital to women's health.
Initiative Overview
How the Elevate Investment Initiative Connects Capital to Women’s Health Innovation
What is The Initiative
The Elevate Investment Initiative is a platform access program that gives emerging women's health fund managers visibility and networking opportunities across the Milken Institute's global convenings and investor networks.
Why It Matters
Emerging fund managers committed to women's health have historically lacked access to the institutional investors and capital allocators needed to grow and scale their funds. Elevate directly addresses this by opening doors.
How It Creates Impact
By providing engagement opportunities between capital allocators and emerging fund managers, Elevate channels new, diverse capital into women's health—advancing our goal of catalyzing $1B in net new capital allocated to the sector.
How to Join the Elevate Investment Initiative
Engage with Milken's network
Fund managers participating will receive exposure to our flagship convenings, engagement opportunities with our network of institutional investors, family offices, and asset managers, as well as access to Women’s Health Network deal rooms.
Applicant Evaluation Criteria include, but are not limited to:
- Fund focus: Existing portfolio investments in women's health, or a demonstrated commitment to expanding into or carving out a women's health allocation
- Fund stage: Managers actively fundraising for Fund II or beyond (regardless of whether prior funds were women's health-focused)
- Fund size: AUM of up to $250M preferred
- Sector: Experience investing across life sciences, health, technology, infrastructure, consumer, and/or other sectors
- Asset class: Can include venture, private equity, credit, and other alternative asset strategies
- Team: Diversity of management and investment professionals
HOW IT WORKS