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Scale Investors is Australia’s first and only network of Angel Investors commited to investing in and uplifting exceptional female founders.

12/10/2026

If first close is not in The Fin did it even happen!? 👀 Thanks for the write up The Australian Financial Review in today’s paper. A big shoutout to our investors who came into first close. We are so excited to back the best startups in the country! Watch this space for more 🌟

15/09/2025

The wait is over. The Scale Venture Fund 1 has secured over $26 million in commitments, a monumental leap in our evolution from Australia’s first gender-lens angel syndicate to a pioneering VC fund. This milestone validates our core investment thesis: backing high-performing, women-led companies for top-quartile returns.
Our fund is positioned to capitalise on a significant arbitrage opportunity that exists because women-led teams consistently outperform yet remain severely underfunded. We are seizing this market inefficiency with support from incredible cornerstone investors like the Minderoo Foundation’s Strategic Impact Fund and the Carla Zampatti family, as well as other as well as other significant investors including the Thickins Family Office, founded by Celina Thickins and her husband Joel Thickins, head of private-equity firm TPG Asia.
With our proven track record of exits and experienced team, we are ready to invest, to build, and to change the game. Join us.

Special thanks to Tess Bennett for her AFR linked below. Investor inquiries can be directed to [email protected].
https://www.afr.com/technology/forrest-zampatti-families-fund-vc-to-back-women-start-up-founders-20250909-p5mtn5

15/05/2023

Co-CEO's Samar Mcheileh and Chelsea Newell and CIO, Roo Harris are incredibly proud to be leading Scale Investors through this next chapter as its new owners!

This incredible opportunity would not have been made possible without the formidable founders, Susan Oliver AM, Carol Schwartz AO, Annette Kimmitt AM and Laura Mckenzie, as well as the former board Catherine Robson, Vicky Papachristos, Adam Pascoe and Penny Heard.

Special thanks to our fantastic transaction partners, who made the Management Buyout deal an absolute pleasure:Tuanh Ngugen at Norton Rose Fulbright, Adam Pascoe and Adam Colley at PwC, and Nicholas Edwards at Hamilton Locke.

We think the time is now to smash the early stage gender investment gap and with our new Scaling Women’s Fund, we’re ready to do just that. As the official new owners of Scale, we can’t wait to get started!

Read our media release https://scaleinvestors.com.au/management-buyout

28/11/2022

🙋‍♀️ Women founders, it's not too late to invest in yourself this year...

Thank you to all the women who have invested in our brand new capital-raising 101 program - FoundEd, so far. We're thrilled to see so many of you take your first, next step on the journey to future capital-raising success!

To say thank you, we have decided to extend our $99 program offer for today only!

Give the gift of knowledge this Xmas 🎄. Spread the word amongst your fellow women entrepreneurs looking for a self-paced, digestible and investor-backed way to tackle the very basics of capital raising and the investment landscape.

FoundEd is also well suited for women in the startup and/or investment space wanting a refresher!

Our Cyber Monday offer ends 12am AEDT! So don't miss your chance to sign up at our special offer price 👋

Sign up now & learn more via the LINK IN BIO! ⬆️

23/11/2022

🗣 Straight from the founders mouth! Our FoundEd program is the answer to your capital-raising questions...

Lee R. Co-Founder at , was one the very first partipants of our FoundEd pilot program earlier this year.

"Being a program for women by women, the Scale team are a super supportive bunch and pretty incredible women themselves – with a clear purpose to improve the access women have to capital."

At Scale, we believe an essential piece of the 'access' puzzle is to equip women with the tools to nail the basics, so that they can thrive in the complex world of capital raising.

How?

We've created the first, next step - with FoundEd! 🪜

Our brand NEW founder education course is here, and it's expertly designed for women-founders at the very early stages of their capital raising journey.

Learn straight from the best in the startup ecosystem and master the very basics of raising capital, how to maneuver through the investor ecosystem and more.

Swipe through to meet the modules and take advantage of our current $99 Black Friday offer!

LEARN MORE & REGISTER VIA THE LINK IN BIO! ⬆️

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23/11/2022

🗣 Straight from the founders mouth! Our FoundEd program is the answer to your capital-raising questions...

Lee Roulston, Co-Founder at was one the very first partipants of our FoundEd pilot program earlier this year.

"Being a program for women by women, the Scale team are a super supportive bunch and pretty incredible women themselves – with a clear purpose to improve the access women have to capital."

At Scale, we believe an essential piece of the 'access' puzzle is to equip women with the tools to nail the basics, so that they can thrive in the complex world of capital raising.

How?

We've created the first, next step - with FoundEd! 🪜

Our brand NEW founder education course is here, and it's expertly designed for women-founders at the very early stages of their capital raising journey.

Learn straight from the best in the startup ecosystem and master the very basics of raising capital, how to maneuver through the investor ecosystem and more.

Swipe through to meet the modules and take advantage of our current $99 Black Friday offer!

LEARN MORE & REGISTER VIA THE LINK IN BIO! ⬆️

Get the answers. Get .

31/08/2022

Thank you to all who attended our Scale ConnectEd event today at PwC!

Held in collaboration with our partners at Artesian, this in-person investor forum and networking session introduced our ecosystem to 2 new female-founded companies and strengthened our connections across and within the Scale community.

It was fantastic to have so many of you there on a beautiful Melbourne day (thankfully!). We thoroughly enjoyed hosting you all and look forward to our next event soon.

If you’d like to find out how you can join the Scale Network and be included in events like this in future, please email us at [email protected].

- The Scale Team

30/06/2022

‎Show Connect to Capital, Ep Alexandra Clunies-Ross of Artesian Investments infects us with her enthusiasm - 23 June 2022

24/06/2022

The gift of our Female Leaders VC Fund alongside Artesian keeps on giving!

Enjoy a 5 minute highlight video of our recent launch event held at the Artesian offices in Richmond.

Huge thanks again to our amazing cornerstone investors Hostplus CIO Sam SICILIA, legalsuper Head of Investment Strategy Linda Trusler, and Partner and Head of Operations Mei Lee and Porfolio Manager Alexandra Clunies-Ross at Artesian for their support and hard work behind the scenes!

Final thank you to our Scale team, MC for the evening Catherine Robson and our fantastic founders Susan Oliver AM, Carol Schwartz AO, Annette Kimmitt AM, Laura McKenzie, Ariane Barker, Amanda Derham and Lynne Thornton for their long-standing dedication to Scale, allowing us to lead the future of equality through investment. 👩‍💼

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