Elizabeth Galbut Perelman is a venture capitalist based in New York City. ^[5]She is a Managing Partner at SoGal Ventures a female-led millennial venture capital firm. ^[4]Galbut was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2018 for the Venture Capital category. ^[2]

Elizabeth was born two months pre-mature and spent her childhood in and out of hospitals.

Both of her parents were physicians.

^[4]When Galbut was three, her mom was diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis and later founded a non-profit. ^[4]Elizabeth would volunteer for it in her youth in order to support hundreds of disabled individuals and their families. ^[6]

Ga;but attended graduate school at Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art for this brand-new program that's an MBA/MA in Design. ^[4]Her focus was innovative products in the healthcare space and would go on to found an entrepreneurship club at Johns Hopkins. ^[5]

During Grad School, Elizabeth's father was diagnosed with cancer and found out that errors were made reading previous biopsies.

^[5]At the same time, the co-leader in the entrepreneurship club that she started was working on a startup called Proscia which developed digital pathology tools in the cloud.

^[4]Because of this, the startup became a personal passion of Elizabeth's and she joined their team.

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Due to being in Baltimore, the company was limited in investing leads and the digital health investment ecosystem overall was minuscule at the time.

^[4]This led Elizabeth to start her own student led fund in grad school, A-Level Capital where she raised money from a couple dozen JHU alumni as limited partners.

The CEO of Proscia was David West was an undergraduate at the time.

^[4]A-Level Capital was Proscia's first outside investor 5 months before their seed round.

The week West graduated, he secured a $1 million seed round investment and raised $3 million overall.

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One of A-Level Capital’s investors and advisors is Dave McClure from 500 Startups, which led Elizabeth to Stanford’s VC executive education program.

^[5]It was at the program where Elizabeth met her future partner at SoGal Ventures, Pocket Sun. ^[4]They founded the firm in July 2015 as a female-led millennial venture capital firm, with an investment focus on exceptional, diverse founding teams that tackle major consumer or healthcare problems in the U.S. and Asia. ^[5]

Elizabeth resides in New York City with her husband, Eric Pearlman.

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