Meghan Markle is placing her cash the place her mouth is.
The Duchess of Sussex has invested in a girls’s well being start-up known as Midi Well being, Fortune reported Tuesday.
Markle’s stake within the firm, which provides a digital platform to these 35 and over experiencing menopause-related signs, follows the lead of celebrities together with Amy Schumer and Connie Britton, who beforehand participated in a $63 million funding spherical that introduced its complete to $103 million.
The “Fits” alum informed the enterprise journal that girls “don’t should be afraid to speak about finance.”
“Girls have to see that they will construct,” she stated. “… And I feel the extra monetary literacy we’ve got, the stronger we’re going to be.”
Fortune referred to Markle, 43, as an “angel investor,” a time period sometimes used to explain a person with a excessive internet price investing in trade for a stake within the firm.
Her rep didn’t instantly reply to Web page Six’s request for remark.
Midi Well being revealed in September 2024 that greater than 80 individuals had invested in its clinic, with investments starting from $10,000 to greater than $500,000.
The enterprise described the group as “high-powered … girls leaders and icons spanning leisure, skilled sports activities, media, magnificence and style, well being and wellness, expertise and enterprise.”
The assertion famous that the traders “consists of girls aged 35 to 60+ and 40 p.c individuals of shade.”
Different notable names embrace designer Tory Burch and former Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece Maya Harris.
Markle’s contribution shouldn’t be the primary time she has invested in a female-led enterprise.
The previous actress invested in espresso model Clevr and haircare model Intellectual Hippie in 2020 and 2024, respectively.
Final week, Markle debuted her “Confessions of a Feminine Founder” podcast to debate how her “feminine entrepreneurs and mates … flip[ed] small concepts into billion-dollar companies.”
The enterprise is one in every of many current launches for the royal, from her “With Love, Meghan” Netflix collection premiering in March and her As Ever way of life model dropping its first drop of merchandise the next month.
Markle shrugged off critics hating on her for working a lot since she and husband Prince Harry give up their royal duties and moved to the US in 2020.
“I have to work, and I like to work,” she informed the New York Instances earlier this month.
Markle identified that she has had a job from the age of 13 till assembly Harry, 40, in 2016.
