WHY JOIN?

Because real change requires real action.

​Our industry, like many others, is systemically broken when it comes to gender parity. Startups 100 Index research has shown that men get 6.2x more funding than women in 2023.

​Being venture-backed brings more than funding to the founder; it brings mentors, customers, board members, strategic support and an exponential network of potential growth levers to pull at various stages of the startup journey. Yet with women significantly underrepresented in VC (a European Women in VC report recently showed that only 15% of decision-makers in the UK are female), a mere 3% of funding is going towards female-led companies.

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