VC funding

Just 3.9 per cent of venture capital (VC) funding for student startups in Australia has gone to women-only founders in the last decade.

Toby-Thomas Smith, the co-founder of startup Kiki, said he was “extremely naive” when he announced Kiki’s controversial “girls club”

Kiki, a startup with an all-male founder team, has announced a pivot away from its invite-only subletting platform model to focus on launching a “girls only” club.

Carol Schwartz said she decided to invest in women-owned VC funds in order to see more funding flow to women entrepreneurs.

There I was, a 32-year-old entrepreneur with two small kids, a media company bootstrapped and thriving, made to feel as small as a thumbtack.