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Our commitment to investing in women-led startups

In 2022, only 3% of VC funding in Australia went to solely women-founded businesses. As an industry, we need to do more to find, invest in and support incredible women building the next generation of great Australian companies.

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The Stats

Let's be honest

Recently, our friends at Giant Leap, Scale Investors and other great funds in the Australian ecosystem committed to putting their gender diversity stats front and centre in an effort to provide complete transparency around how their investments have been allocated. We feel it’s important to also hold ourselves accountable, and be open and honest about where and how we can improve, so we've joined Equity Clear.

Skalata Portfolio Diversity FY23
  1. Investment benchmark data has been taken from State of Australian Startup Funding Report 2022 (Cut Through Venture)
  2. We define women to include all women, regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth, and acknowledge that gender is a spectrum. Mixed teams currently include non-binary founders. We will provide further segmented data at the end of FY24.
  3. Where possible, we want to ensure that gender data is self-reported. For this reason, we have added a field to our Pitch Form which requests (optional) gender identification.
Skalata Investment Team Diversity FY23
  1. Investment team benchmark data has been taken from Snapshot of Gender Diversity in Private Capital 2023 (Australian Investment Council)
  2. Investment team (11) comprises 5 women: Sarah Morgan (Investment Committee Chair). Maxine Lee, Shahirah Gardner, Justine Lum, Claire Bristow, and 6 men: Rohan Workman, Anthony Glenning, James Crowe, Tom Smalley, Tuong Tran, Rob Greco.
Economic impact

It just makes sense

Research shows that women-led businesses generate 12% higher revenues annually, using an average of a third less capital than their male counterparts. If women and men participated equally as entrepreneurs, global GDP could increase by 6%, boosting the global economy by $5 trillion.

  1. Investment team benchmark data has been taken from Snapshot of Gender Diversity in Private Capital 2023 (Australian Investment Council)
  2. Investment team (11) comprises 5 women: Sarah Morgan (Investment Committee Chair). Maxine Lee, Shahirah Gardner, Justine Lum, Claire Bristow, and 6 men: Rohan Workman, Anthony Glenning, James Crowe, Tom Smalley, Tuong Tran, Rob Greco.
Lewi Software co-founders Geraldine Terada-Bellis and Vishnu Avudainayagam