2022 Sonja Hoel Perkins

“Investing in a way that everyone wins” inspires the career of Charlottesville native Sonja Hoel Perkins (Albemarle High School, UVA McIntire ’88). After nearly three decades of venture capital investment success at Menlo Ventures and TA Associates, Ms. Perkins founded The Perkins Fund concentrating on “people and companies that matter.” She became part of the  C200,  Women Moving Millions and The Maverick Collective. Ms. Perkins established Broadway Angels, a venture capital group of world class investors who all happen to be women, and Project Glimmer.  Project Glimmer inspires every girl to envision and realize her full potential through its “Gifts and Goods” programs, “Days of Empowerment” and coaching. Her story is featured in Julian Guthrie’s book Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime.