Just 2%! The funding gap for women founders and how it can change

The overwhelming majority of startup funding went to male founders in 2024 with the results actually going backwards for women. So why is this still happening, given all the rhetoric from governments, investors and founders on the need for change to support more women in startups?Today, we discuss the numbers in the State of Startup Funding Report for 2024, released in early February and documenting the year that was for startups in Australia. Noga Edelstein joins the discussion, sharing her perspective as a founder herself, an investor and an advisor to startups. Noga offers some great ideas on why the gender funding gap persists and what can be done to change the ratio in the future. She also shares more on the "soul destroying" process she went through raising capital for her own startup UrbanYou, which she later successfully exited in 2017. Finally, Noga wraps up the episode with advice for women looking to build a startup in 2025. You can learn more about the State of Startup Founding report here. The Women's Agenda Podcast is produced by Agenda Media, publisher of Women's Agenda. You can subscribe to our daily lunchtime update here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.