Thursday's Detroit Homecoming features a conversation with two rising stars – one on screen and one in the business world – who have collaborated to become social entrepreneurs and angel investors and have made a strategic decision to invest in the City of Detroit.
Nia Batts is the managing director & COO of Union Heritage, one of the nation’s leading minority-owned, diversified investment management companies. She is also a general partner of its venture arm, Union Heritage Ventures; the only majority African-American owned, and majority women-owned venture capital firm in the state of Michigan.
Sophia Bush is an American actress, activist, entrepreneur, and investor. Sophia is a member of the Directors Guild of America and has starred in various independent projects, shows and movies such as the hit comedy John Tucker Must Die, Incredibles 2, The CW’s hit drama One Tree Hill, and starred as Detective Erin Lindsay for 4 seasons on Dick Wolf’s Chicago PD. In 2020, Sophia appeared in NBC’s drama This is Us and joined the cast of Hulu’s, Love, Victor, playing Veronica. Sophia can currently be seen starring in the CBS drama, Good Sam, as Dr. Sam Griffith.
As an investor, Sophia was an early angel investor in companies such as Uber, Seed, Dirty Lemon, CrowdRise, StyleSeat, Better Battery Co., AllVoices, Detroit Blows, Bev and Genexa. She is also an investor and co-owner of LA-based women’s soccer club, Angel City FC. And in 2021, she joined Union Heritage Venture Partners as a general partner.
The duo, alongside Billie Jean King and Allyson Felix, serve as strategic advisors to First Women’s Bank; a first-of-its-kind, purpose driven bank with a mission to grow the economy and advance the role of women within it. The Bank is the only women-founded, women-owned and women-led commercial bank in the country with a strategic focus on serving the women’s economy.
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