Monarch Collective Raises $100M for Women’s Sports Investments – Sportico

                        By  <a class="c-link  lrv-a-unstyle-link" href="https://www.sportico.com/author/jason-clinkscales/"             >   Jason Clinkscales</a>                       <br>Reporter/Editor, Breaking News<br>  Monarch Collective, a private equity fund dedicated to women&rsquo;s sports, has expanded its fund size to $250 million from an <a  href="https://www.sportico.com/business/finance/2023/monarch-collective-nortman-robinson-1234717318/"  data-type="link"  data-id="https://www.sportico.com/business/finance/2023/monarch-collective-nortman-robinson-1234717318/"  target="_blank"  rel="noreferrer noopener"  >initial $150 million</a> used at founding in 2023.<br>  Much of the $100 million raise comes from Monarch&rsquo;s original investor pool, which includes Melinda French Gates&rsquo; Pivotal Ventures, former Netflix executives Cindy Holland and Annie Imhoff, and Hello Sunshine CEO Sarah Harden. New investors in the latest round are Elizabeth Yee, EVP of programs for the Rockefeller Foundation, and Beth Brooke, the former global vice chair of public policy for Ernst &amp; Young.<br>    &ldquo;This [raise] is to stay with our core strategy that we launched Monarch with,&rdquo; said managing partner Jasmine Robinson in a video interview, &ldquo;so that Kara [Nortman] and I and the rest of our team can be really hands on to help to build and scale those opportunities, and really to continue focusing on those things that we view as most mature.&rdquo;    <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1">                     <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300">                  <div style="min-width:300px;min-height:275px;"     class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text"   data-priority="10" >    <div id="gpt-sprt-dsk-tab-midarticle-uid0"      class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad="">         <script type="application/javascript">

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