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●SERENA WILLIAMS 16 UNICORNS BACKED●REESE WITHERSPOON $900M MEDIA EXIT●OPRAH WINFREY $43M WEIGHT WATCHERS●GWYNETH PALTROW $250M GOOP VALUATION●RIHANNA $1B SAVAGE X FENTY●JESSICA ALBA HONEST CO. · NASDAQ IPO●HALLE BERRY BACKS WOMEN'S HEALTH●BEYONCÉ LEMON PERFECT BACKER●JENNIFER LOPEZ HIMS & HERS BACKER●KIM KARDASHIAN SKKY PARTNERS PE FUND●SELENA GOMEZ GOPUFF STRATEGIC PARTNER●PRIYANKA CHOPRA BUMBLE EARLY BACKER●DEEPIKA PADUKONE KA ENTERPRISES INVESTOR●SHAKIRA ISIMA HAIRCARE FOUNDER●NATALIE PORTMAN ANGEL CITY CO-FOUNDER●KERRY WASHINGTON ANGEL INVESTOR●MINDY KALING ANGEL INVESTOR●EVA LONGORIA CASA DEL SOL CO-FOUNDER●CAMERON DIAZ AVALINE CO-FOUNDER●DREW BARRYMORE FLOWER BEAUTY FOUNDER●KATE HUDSON FABLETICS CO-FOUNDER●BLAKE LIVELY BETTY BUZZ FOUNDER●VENUS WILLIAMS ELEVEN FOUNDER●NAOMI OSAKA HANA KUMA CO-FOUNDER●MARIA SHARAPOVA PROLIFIC WELLNESS ANGEL●TYRA BANKS FIERCE CAPITAL FOUNDER●KARLIE KLOSS BEDFORD MEDIA FOUNDER●ISSA RAE TOPICALS & HILLTOP BACKER●KATY PERRY DE SOI CO-FOUNDER●KYLIE JENNER $1.2B KYLIE COSMETICS●BETHENNY FRANKEL SKINNYGIRL FOUNDER●MELINDA FRENCH GATES PIVOTAL VENTURES●CATHIE WOOD ARK INVEST CEO●MELLODY HOBSON ARIEL INVESTMENTS CO-CEO●KIRSTEN GREEN FORERUNNER VENTURES●SALLIE KRAWCHECK ELLEVEST CEO●MARY MEEKER BOND CAPITAL FOUNDER●ARLAN HAMILTON BACKSTAGE CAPITAL●BARBARA CORCORAN SHARK TANK INVESTOR●SHERYL SANDBERG EX-META COO●SARA BLAKELY FOUNDER OF SPANX●KATHY XU CAPITAL TODAY FOUNDER●JENNY LEE GRANITE ASIA PARTNER●SOLINA CHAU HORIZONS VENTURES●KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW BIOCON FOUNDER●FALGUNI NAYAR NYKAA FOUNDER●MARÍA ASUNCIÓN ARAMBURUZABALA TRESALIA CAPITAL●OLIVIA WILDE $500K–$2M CHEQUES●EMMA WATSON 2 DOCUMENTED DEALS●PARIS HILTON 20+ STARTUP BETS●THE FOSTER SISTERS BUMBLE AND MIRROR EARLY●GRACE BEVERLEY £6.2M IN TALA'S FIRST YEAR●AILEEN LEE COINED "UNICORN"●ANN MIURA-KO SEED INVESTOR IN LYFT●EMMA GREDE 8% OF SKIMS●NAMITA THAPAR 100+ COMPANIES BACKED●SERENA WILLIAMS 16 UNICORNS BACKED●REESE WITHERSPOON $900M MEDIA EXIT●OPRAH WINFREY $43M WEIGHT WATCHERS●GWYNETH PALTROW $250M GOOP VALUATION●RIHANNA $1B SAVAGE X FENTY●JESSICA ALBA HONEST CO. · NASDAQ IPO●HALLE BERRY BACKS WOMEN'S HEALTH●BEYONCÉ LEMON PERFECT BACKER●JENNIFER LOPEZ HIMS & HERS BACKER●KIM KARDASHIAN SKKY PARTNERS PE FUND●SELENA GOMEZ GOPUFF STRATEGIC PARTNER●PRIYANKA CHOPRA BUMBLE EARLY BACKER●DEEPIKA PADUKONE KA ENTERPRISES INVESTOR●SHAKIRA ISIMA HAIRCARE FOUNDER●NATALIE PORTMAN ANGEL CITY CO-FOUNDER●KERRY WASHINGTON ANGEL INVESTOR●MINDY KALING ANGEL INVESTOR●EVA LONGORIA CASA DEL SOL CO-FOUNDER●CAMERON DIAZ AVALINE CO-FOUNDER●DREW BARRYMORE FLOWER BEAUTY FOUNDER●KATE HUDSON FABLETICS CO-FOUNDER●BLAKE LIVELY BETTY BUZZ FOUNDER●VENUS WILLIAMS ELEVEN FOUNDER●NAOMI OSAKA HANA KUMA CO-FOUNDER●MARIA SHARAPOVA PROLIFIC WELLNESS ANGEL●TYRA BANKS FIERCE CAPITAL FOUNDER●KARLIE KLOSS BEDFORD MEDIA FOUNDER●ISSA RAE TOPICALS & HILLTOP BACKER●KATY PERRY DE SOI CO-FOUNDER●KYLIE JENNER $1.2B KYLIE COSMETICS●BETHENNY FRANKEL SKINNYGIRL FOUNDER●MELINDA FRENCH GATES PIVOTAL VENTURES●CATHIE WOOD ARK INVEST CEO●MELLODY HOBSON ARIEL INVESTMENTS CO-CEO●KIRSTEN GREEN FORERUNNER VENTURES●SALLIE KRAWCHECK ELLEVEST CEO●MARY MEEKER BOND CAPITAL FOUNDER●ARLAN HAMILTON BACKSTAGE CAPITAL●BARBARA CORCORAN SHARK TANK INVESTOR●SHERYL SANDBERG EX-META COO●SARA BLAKELY FOUNDER OF SPANX●KATHY XU CAPITAL TODAY FOUNDER●JENNY LEE GRANITE ASIA PARTNER●SOLINA CHAU HORIZONS VENTURES●KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW BIOCON FOUNDER●FALGUNI NAYAR NYKAA FOUNDER●MARÍA ASUNCIÓN ARAMBURUZABALA TRESALIA CAPITAL●OLIVIA WILDE $500K–$2M CHEQUES●EMMA WATSON 2 DOCUMENTED DEALS●PARIS HILTON 20+ STARTUP BETS●THE FOSTER SISTERS BUMBLE AND MIRROR EARLY●GRACE BEVERLEY £6.2M IN TALA'S FIRST YEAR●AILEEN LEE COINED "UNICORN"●ANN MIURA-KO SEED INVESTOR IN LYFT●EMMA GREDE 8% OF SKIMS●NAMITA THAPAR 100+ COMPANIES BACKED
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Halle Berry

Berry has moved into health and wellness investing, taking an equity stake in probiotics company Pendulum Therapeutics (where she also became Chief Communications Officer) and backing women's-health startups. In 2024 she launched her own midlife-women's wellness brand, Respin.

Halle Berry portraitBacks women's health
Less than $5MRespin total raised
~$17BGlobal menopause market (2024)
~$24BProjected menopause market by 2029
~1.3MU.S. women entering menopause each year
Fewer than 2,500Menopause-certified physicians in the U.S.
~$126MPendulum Therapeutics total funding
Watch

Halle Berry in her own words

Halle Berry's Journey to Women's Health Advocate · via New York Times Events

The thesis

How Halle Berry invests

Berry's investing is a recent, focused second act built around health problems she has lived through. Undiagnosed for a decade in perimenopause and managing type 2 diabetes, she backs and often joins companies serving underserved health markets, women's midlife health above all. She founded Respin, invested in and became an executive at microbiome company Pendulum, backed intimate-health brand Joylux and was the largest individual investor in canned-wine startup Bev. The track record is thin and mostly post-2022, and she has been candid that convincing largely male VCs that menopause was a real market was hard.

it was really hard to get people, largely men, at some of these venture capital companies to believe that menopause was a real thing.
Fortune, 2025 ↗
It's my second act in life. And I want to back startups that focus on common health issues that are not being well addressed. Menopausal health is one area that's been overlooked by the medical community.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce ↗
This is my greatest act.
Forbes, 2025 ↗
As an entrepreneur, it's important for me to invest in companies that share my values and are utilizing their platforms to drive real change.
Fortune, 2022 ↗
The portfolio

What Halle Berry has backed

4 documented positions — each sourced to named reporting.

01

Respin

Women's midlife-health platform offering menopause telehealth visits, coaching, community and content.

When
Founded 2020 as a wellness site; relaunched February 2025 as a menopause-focused health company Berry owns and leads.
Why
Berry spent roughly a decade in perimenopause without knowing it, was misdiagnosed, and wanted a one-stop resource for menopause care.
Status
Has raised less than $5 million from Khosla Ventures, Night Ventures, Range Media Partners, Precursor Ventures and Able Partners; subscription and telehealth services with revenue still early-stage.

Forbes, 2025 ↗Fortune, 2025 ↗

02

Pendulum Therapeutics

Microbiome biotech whose flagship Glucose Control probiotic is aimed at helping people with type 2 diabetes manage blood sugar.

When
Equity owner and investor; joined as Chief Communications Officer in February 2023.
Why
She had been a paying customer using Glucose Control to manage her own type 2 diabetes.
Status
Company has raised around $126 million from backers including Sequoia, Meritech and the Mayo Clinic.

Forbes, 2023 ↗U.S. Chamber of Commerce ↗

03

Joylux

Intimate and pelvic-health company for peri- and postmenopausal women, known for its vFit red-light device.

When
Invested in 2023 and also serves as brand ambassador and co-product developer.
Why
Direct fit with her women's midlife-health focus and underserved-market thesis.
Status
One of roughly six companies Berry has backed as an investor.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce ↗

04

Bev

Female-founded canned wine brand based in Venice, California (founder Alix Peabody).

When
Became the largest individual investor in Bev's Series A and led the strategic portion of the round (2022).
Why
She was sent the product, liked that it was zero-sugar and mission-driven, and wanted to back a female-founded brand challenging a male-dominated industry.
Status
Direct-to-consumer and retail canned-wine brand founded in 2017.

Fortune, 2022 ↗

Photo: Harald Krichel / WikiPortraits — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

What the record doesn't say

Read this with the gaps in mind.

The amounts she invested in Pendulum and Joylux weren't disclosed, and Respin's own funding details are thin in public reporting.

Frequently asked questions

What has Halle Berry invested in?
Halle Berry has backed Respin, Pendulum Therapeutics, Joylux, Bev. Each one is listed on this page with what the company does and a link to named reporting.
How much has Halle Berry invested?
Cheque sizes are almost never disclosed, and Halle Berry's are mostly private. Where a round size, stake or valuation has been reported we cite the source; otherwise we flag it as undisclosed rather than guess.
How does Halle Berry invest?
Berry's investing is a recent, focused second act built around health problems she has lived through.