After working for TA Associates in Boston as an analyst, she graduated from the Harvard Business School.

[8] She worked for 22 years at Menlo Ventures before starting her own firm, The Perkins Fund.

[11] Forty percent of the angel investments made by Sonja Hoel Perkins have been in companies started by women.

[13][7] Rather than investing as a group, they use their collective networking resources to bring in entrepreneurs - both male and female - who may be of interest to individual members.

[1][2][3] Perkins lives in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California.