Invest into ANZ’s best women-led start ups
What is the Scale Venture Fund 1?
Scale Venture Fund 1 is our newest product that provides access to a diversified portfolio of women-led startups.
Scale Investors is on a mission to maximise investor returns by investing into the best startups across ANZ. We have been in market for 10 years, starting as an angel syndicate. We're now raising our first $50m fund to take advantage of our "fund zero" and the incredible arbitrage opportunity that exists to invest in gender-diverse teams.
We invest in seed-stage startups; we have invested $20m into 46 startups since inception, and the portfolio is currently valued at a total of $500m+, with two significant exits.
How does the Scale Venture Fund work?
Scale Venture Fund 1 is a differentiated, flexible way of investing, designed to save you time and overheads. We manage the fund on GXE.com, giving you increased security, management efficiencies and performance insights.
Supported by an Investment Committee, which is composed of a collective of experienced institutional-grade venture capitalists and angel investors.
Who are the members of the Investment Committee?
Our investment committee is led by well-known venture capital and angel investment experts, as well as operators and successfully exited founders.
Melissa Widner
CEO of Lighter Capital
Former Managing Director, NAB Ventures
Former partner, SeaPoint ventures (US VC Active angel investor; portfolio of 40 startups)
2 x founder
10 and 15X return to investors
Co-founder and Chair of Heads Over Heels
Tracie Clark
Head of Wealth, Carbon Group
Active angel investor
Former Chair of Perth Angels
Former Macquarie Investment Banker
2 x founder successful financial services companies
Neil Stanford
Executive at Breakthrough Victoria
Former head of Private Equity and VC, Hostplus
Pioneered venture investing at Hostplus in 2014
Former asset consultant, JANA Investment Advisers
Phil Dolan
Executive Director Melbourne University - Future of Business
Experienced financial services executive
Experienced private equity investor
15+ years heading up Macquarie Investment Research
Senior management of educational institutions, especially Business Schools. PhD finance, economics, accounting and statistics at Stanford
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Together, we can give Australian women entrepreneurs support to succeed.