About Sengo

Talent is everywhere. Access is inherited.

Who gets to build wealth in private markets comes down to proximity: to capital, to the right rooms, to relationships, to the language. Sengo exists to close that inheritance gap for founders and for the people who back them.

The problem

The gap runs both ways.

Founders

5.5Mbusinesses start in the U.S. every year.
<3%of them ever receive venture funding.
<2%of VC dollars go to women and founders of color, who start nearly half of all new businesses.

Investors

49MAmericans can legally invest in private companies.
<2%of them actually do.
$14.9Tin private markets, with the gains flowing almost entirely to institutions and the already wealthy.

Exclusion on both sides feeds a $14 trillion racial wealth gap. Communities are shut out of the wealth they help create.

Sources: McKinsey Global Private Markets Report 2025; Bain Global Private Equity Report 2026; SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, 2025.
戦後
The name

After the war

In Japanese, Sengo (戦後) means after the war: the era of renewal and rebuilding that followed World War II. We carry that idea into capital markets. A new era where communities become capital engines and building wealth is shared work.

Ila Corcoran · NYU
Founder & CEO

Meet Ila Corcoran.

At 13, Ila started searching for homes online to help support her family. Real estate and alternative assets became her way forward, and by 24 she had closed more than $100M in transactions.

But success usually meant winning alone, inside systems built for individual gain and designed to extract wealth rather than sustain it across generations. Sengo is what she built instead: a place where wealth, opportunity and ownership are shared.

  • $100M+in real estate transactions by age 24
  • $90Min institutional capital managed as a former GP at Bay Street Capital Holdings
  • Series 65licensed
  • Tulsa, OKwhere Sengo is based

Recognition: Nasdaq Milestone Makers (2026) · WomenInvestEU (2026) · Gradient Incubator, Tulsa (2026) · Black Girl Ventures Fellowship (2025) · W.E. Build, Tulsa (2025)
Press: Forbes · Business Insider · Authority Magazine

What we are building

Education, community and access in one place.

Founders

Learn to raise alongside a cohort, send investor updates that are ready in 24 to 48 hours, and get in front of angels who are actually looking.

For founders
Angels

Learn how private markets work, then see vetted deal flow and founder updates every week before you write a check.

For angels
Partners

Institutions, funds and brands partner with Sengo to reach capital-ready founders and a growing base of new investors.

Partner with us
So far

Built in community, measured in outcomes.

11,176founders, angels and builders
$11M+raised by our grant recipients
$37.5Kin grants to 20 founders
30+events, virtual and in person
Where we are going

A world where capital flows as freely as community.

Every founder has the resources to build. Every funder has a transparent way to invest. Every community shares in the wealth it helps create. From exclusion to access, and from individual gain to collective wealth.

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