Closing the investment gap? Start with VCs committing to the challenge

Just 15 per cent of private investment in Australia went to startup teams with at least one female founder in 2024.Through this limited Women's Agenda series, we're exploring solutions for actually closing this gap -- solutions that go beyond "fixing" women.In Part 1, we got to some of the issues facing female founders as well as founders from diverse backgrounds.Now in Part 2, we're getting started on solutions: starting with those who typically hold access to capital: Venture Capitalists!Venture capitalists, or VCs, are investment decision makers, and it's a profession that is typically dominated by men, and continues to lack cultural diversity.This matters when it comes to what's driving the gender gap in private investment, and it matters in terms of what we can solve as a country.In this episode, we learn some of the ideas available for shifting the balance: especially some of the "low hanging fruit" options that are easily available to VCs, that legitimately want to be a part of the solution. This series, What We Could Solve, is hosted by Angela Priestley, produced by Allison Ho, and published by Agenda Media, also the publisher of Women's Agenda.You can find more on this series and our guests at Women's Agenda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.