Venture capitalist Theresia Gouw is “smart, opinionated and the only woman in the room,” says Heather Fernandez, cofounder and CEO of healthtech startup Solv and former executive at real estate tech firm Trulia, which Gouw backed in 2005.
She’s also become a woman of many firsts. Born in Indonesia to parents of Chinese descent, Gouw immigrated to the U.S. when she was three. She later became the first person in her high school to attend Brown University, the first female partner at venture capital powerhouse Accel and cofounder of one of the first female-led VC firms in Silicon Valley. “The American dream is so central to my personal story,” she told Forbes in 2023.
She now has another “first” to add to her list. Gouw is America’s first female billionaire venture capitalist, worth an estimated $1.2 billion.
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