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For women in leadership · Healthcare, AI & life sciences
Investing for Women
Investing for women often stops at retirement accounts, public markets and real estate. The LSM Group opens a different door: learn how early-stage healthcare, AI and life sciences companies are evaluated and funded, and invest in the ones you believe in, each reviewed by a domain expert first.
The LSM Group is an invitation-only investor network. Membership is free, and you decide company by company whether to participate.
Apply for membership
Membership is free.
- No Membership Fee
- Companies Reviewed by Domain Experts
- Invitation Only
- Accredited Investors Only
- No Membership Fee
- Companies Reviewed by Domain Experts
- Invitation Only
- Accredited Investors Only
Why we built this
Why Investing for Women Should Include Venture Capital
Many women already use the skills early-stage investing requires. You weigh whether a product will hold up in real use, judge the people behind a business, and decide where money will have the most impact. In venture capital, that same judgment is applied to young companies before they are proven.
Yet investing for women rarely goes beyond retirement accounts, public markets and real estate. The traditional routes into venture capital are hard to start with: a large commitment to a fund, little visibility into how companies are chosen, and no way to learn before you invest.
The LSM Group offers a more practical starting point. Membership is free, you attend founder presentations and read a domain expert’s assessment of each company, and you decide company by company whether to invest. You learn how deals are evaluated first and invest only when you are ready, alongside other women investors backing the companies shaping healthcare and AI.
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Membership is free.
Membership
What Membership Offers Female Investors
Membership is free. There is no subscription and no commitment of capital.
Invest
Decide on each company individually. Investment terms, including the minimum, are shared only with members who opt into a specific company. There is no membership fee and no obligation to invest.
Contribute
Your operating experience is useful to founders. Members with deep functional expertise may be invited onto the domain expert panel for companies in their field.
How it works
Women Investing With The LSM Group: How It Works
01
Apply
Applications are reviewed personally, and we respond within five business days.
02
Attend presentations
Once or twice a month, a company presents to the network and answers member questions. Attend the ones that interest you.
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Review the Signal Report
Each company arrives with a written assessment from a domain expert in its category.
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Decide
After each presentation, you indicate whether you are interested. Members who opt in receive the pitch deck, investor memo, raise details, minimum, and closing date.
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Invest and follow
If you invest, documents, funding, reporting, and tax forms are handled through one secure investment platform.
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Membership is free.
Expert review
How Companies Are Reviewed Before You See Them
Four stages are complete before a company presents to the network.
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Identification
Sourced through relationships across the network.
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Domain Expert Review
A specialist in the company's category assesses it and writes the Signal Report.
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Acquirer and PE Signal
We assess likely acquirers and exit paths.
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Follow-On Signal
We assess whether investors are positioned to fund the next round.
Signal Report list:
01Technical and Clinical Validation
02Competitive Positioning
03Regulatory Risk
04Market Timing
05Expert Recommendation With a Stated Confidence Level
Who it is for
Who This is For
The network is designed for women in senior corporate roles, including executives, functional leaders, and operators, whether or not they have invested in private companies before. Participation in any investment is limited to accredited investors under SEC Rule 501. No background in healthcare or venture is required.
It is equally open to women outside the corporate world: founders, business owners, professionals of every kind, and women investing on their own or alongside family. Women in medicine often find that their clinical experience gives them an edge, which is why investing for physicians is such a natural fit for doctors who join. If you are accredited and want to learn how early-stage companies are evaluated before deciding whether to invest, membership is built for you.
Focus areas
Healthcare, AI, and Life Sciences
- Diagnostic technology and clinical operations
- Specialty pharmaceutical assets, post-development with validated clinical data
- Applied AI in regulated environments
- Longevity and healthspan therapeutics and diagnostics
- Data security for healthcare and life sciences infrastructure
About the founder
Yenvy Truong, Founder
Yenvy Truong has spent two decades in healthcare. She trained as a biomedical engineer, built diagnostic laboratories, and founded and exited multiple healthcare companies across genomics, longevity, remote patient monitoring, digital musculoskeletal care, telomere science, and metabolic medicine.
The LSM Group co-invests alongside members in the deals it brings to the network.
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Terms
Membership is free. Investment terms are shared only with members who opt into a specific company.
- Membership
- Free. No fee, no subscription, no commitment.
- Minimum to participate
- Disclosed in each company’s offering documents.
- Administration
- An investment platform handles documents, funding, reporting, and tax forms.
- Commitment
- None. You opt into each company individually.
- Eligibility
- Accredited investors under SEC Rule 501.
Fees apply per investment and are disclosed in full in the offering documents before you commit any capital.
Apply
Apply for Membership
There is no cost to apply and no obligation. Applications are reviewed personally, and we respond within five business days.
- No membership fee
- Invitation only
- Companies reviewed by domain experts
Membership is free. Fees apply only to capital you choose to invest and are disclosed in full in the offering documents.
Private investments are illiquid, involve a high degree of risk, and may result in the total loss of invested capital.
Questions
Questions Women Investors Ask Before Applying
An accredited investor is a person the SEC considers financially able to take on the risk of private investments: for example, someone with income above $200,000 in each of the past two years ($300,000 with a spouse or partner) and the same expected this year, a net worth over $1 million excluding their primary home, or a Series 7, 65 or 82 license in good standing. The LSM Group network is open to accredited investors, and because the SEC can update these thresholds, the application always carries the current definition.
This page is for informational purposes only. It is not investment, tax or legal advice, and it is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Any offering is made only to accredited investors through definitive offering documents. Private investments are illiquid, involve a high degree of risk, and may result in the total loss of invested capital. Past performance does not indicate future results.