Dame Venturus

At Dame Venturus (DV) business creators join forces to make higher-purpose innovation™ happen. Led by Dame Sheila B. Driscoll, our mission is to quietly uplift the health & welfare of humanity. Expertise lives at the nexus of media & entertainment, product development, food security, and philanthropy. From Ireland to the USA, DV's inventive roots span 150+ years. Sheila is the great granddaughter of Jeremiah Driscoll, the visionary Irish patriarch who came to California in 1853 to sow berries and whose sons established Driscoll’s in 1907 to nourish their neighboring communities. In the echoing footsteps of her forebears, Sheila's career path was seeded with this unwavering ethos of serving the higher good. Driscoll’s burgeoned into a berry empire while Sheila, ever the maverick, became a beacon in education not to mention titan in Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial and philanthropic world. She now stands as one of America's most esteemed innovative spirits with a myriad of intellectual pursuits and capital ventures in agriculture, product invention, cinematic arts, educational reforms for a US President and co-founding a well-known philanthropic forum amongst others. Fuelled by Sheila's ingenuity and unwavering ethos, every endeavor pioneered under the DV banner - guides investors and family offices from mere success to enduring significance.