MEET THE FOUNDER 

Katie Kirsch 

Operator-turned-venture-capitalist working at the intersection of global health, venture capital, and founder support.

I started my career building things, not investing in them. Co-founding Sisu Global Health taught me what it actually takes to bring a life-saving medical device a WHO-approved blood transfusion technology - from prototype to market across Africa and Southeast Asia, raising more than $6M along the way. That operator's-eye view is what I now bring to every founder and fund I work with. 

Today I invest as a Venture Partner at Mindshift Capital, a global women-run VC investing in post- seed and early-stage companies across the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Through my own practice, Hello Katie Kirsch LLC, I advise founders and ecosystem-builders on medical device and biotech market evaluation, international strategy, and entrepreneurial ecosystem development. I also co-founded Founder Forward Michigan, a year-long fellowship supporting high-growth founders across Detroit and Grand Rapids. 

Yellow Cherry Capital brings all of that together: a home for the investing, advising, and connecting I do at the intersection of women's health and wealth two areas I believe are chronically undervalued and enormously overdue for capital.