TIE COUNCIL MEMBER

Andrea Turner Moffitt

Co-Founder, Plum Alley Investments & General Partner, Plum Alley Venture Fund I

Moffitt

Biography

Andrea has been at the forefront of investing at the intersection of venture, disruptive technologies and applying a lens of intentional investing. Her experience spans 20+ years as an investor and capital raiser across venture, project finance, hedge funds and tech investment banking with a long-term commitment to back companies advancing world positive outcomes and building inclusive cultures. Andrea has invested across climate tech, sustainable industry, agtech & future of food, automation & robotics, AI/ML, future of work, among other areas.

She is the co-founder of Plum Alley Investments, where she led the firm to nearly $100M of committed capital invested across 30+ portfolio companies. She is currently a General Partner for Plum Alley Venture Fund I, and she was previously the President of Plum Alley, Inc. launching the firm’s direct syndicate investor platform. Notable investments include Air Protein, Arix Technologies, Diligent Robotics, Einride, Helaina, Innerplant, Mammoth Biosciences, Node (exited), One Concern, ThinkCERCA and Tinkergarten (exited).

Prior to Plum Alley, Andrea founded fintech start-up Wealthrive, a content driven platform engaging women investors in private and public markets. Andrea is also an accomplished author and thought leader on intentional investing and diverse investors. In 2015, she published the book Harness the Power of the Purse: Winning Women Investors. Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc., Fortune, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal.

She is an honors graduate of Columbia University’s Business School and the School of International and Public Affairs and earned her BA from Tulane University. Andrea is a board member of Columbia Business School's Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and she serves on the investment committee for Tulane Ventures Fund, a seed fund to bolster innovation in the south targeting underrepresented entrepreneurs in New Orleans and the greater Louisiana region. She is a previous Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.