Blackbird explains its recent male-founder dominated investment announcements
Despite gender diversity pledge, Blackbird Venture's last 11 public investments have been into all-male founding teams. What's going on?
Five steps to achieving gender parity in Australia’s entrepreneur community
Gender bias in funding opportunities echoes the gender bias we see in employment and carries the same missed opportunities for growth and success.
Building barriers or creating space? A closer look at the Boosting Female Founders Initiative’s tight eligibility criteria
The government’s Boosting Female Founders Initiative comes with some pretty strict eligibility criteria attached.
Just 22.3% of Australia’s founders are women: How universities could tackle entrepreneurship’s gender gap
Australia's economic recovery would be greatly helped along by the inclusion of more talented female founders in our startup ecosystem.
Male leaders dominate Australian startup scene, as women-led startups receive little funding
The startup sector in Australia is still overwhelmingly male-dominated, and women are receiving just a teeny-tiny proportion of overall funding.
“It’s not over yet”: Glaring gender disparity remains in tech, as engineering job ad receives 200 applications, but not one from a woman
You can imagine Olympia Yarger’s disappointment when her job ad for a head engineer received 200 applications, but not one from a woman.
No IPOs for tech bros, says Goldman Sachs. But is it enough?
Goldman Sachs is refusing to take a company public if it doesn’t have at least one woman or otherwise ‘diverse’ board member.
How 23-year-old Samira Tollo is challenging the status quo and scaling a fintech
Samira Tollo might be only 23 years old, but the cryptocurrency marketplace company she co-founded is celebrating its second round of capital investment.
Blazing trails and dreaming big: StartupSmart’s 12 startups to watch in 2020
These rising startup stars are taking global markets by storm, tapping into emerging trends, and making a real difference to Australian communities.
The ‘little and subtle things’ keeping women out of startups — and what to do about them
Many 'little and subtle things' work together to keep women out of startups, according to Jacqui Barrett, a partner at Hall & Wilcox’s Frank Lab startup accelerator.
“If I don’t do it, who else is going to?”: Meet Caia, the medtech striving to provide personal healthcare squads for Aussie women
Australian medtech startup Caia is setting out to get women talking about — and getting to know — their bodies.
“You’re fighting fewer battles”: The women leaving corporate life for startupland
While we often hear stories of men ditching their cushty corporate roles to take a stab at startup life, it’s less of a common theme among women.
