femaleleaders.vc ↗
Sydney, AU · 1 known investors
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Artesian Capital Management is a venture capital firm investing in high-growth startups led by women across Series A & B stages, with focus on climate tech, agrifood, healthcare, and female economic empowerment across Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and China. The firm also manages sector-specific funds including climate tech and agrifood investments, and operates Scale Investors, an angel group backing female founders at pre-seed and seed stages.
Also known as Artesian Female Leaders Fund · Female Leaders Fund · Female Leaders VC Fund
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Female Leaders Fund (femaleleaders.vc) is a venture capital fund operated by Artesian that invests in women-founded and women-led companies. Its stated remit is to fund what it describes as unique perspectives, unexplored business opportunities and underinvested talent among women founders, targeting companies that are overlooked by other venture investors and underrepresented in Artesian's existing portfolios.
The fund invests at Series A and Series B stages in high-growth, women-led startups. Its public materials frame the opportunity around market statistics it attributes to third parties: that 2% of venture capital goes to women founders (PitchBook, 2023 and 2024), a $3 trillion opportunity to invest in women (Forbes 2023), and that women control 80% of household spending (Bloomberg 2023). Alongside investment, the fund states it supports portfolio founders through advice, introductions and network access, and it publishes press articles and an impact report through a news section on its website.
Business model
Female Leaders Fund operates as a venture capital fund under Artesian, deploying capital raised from cornerstone investors into equity stakes in women-led startups at Series A and B.
Traction
The website lists a portfolio of companies whose founders include Julie Tylman and Ali Linz (GroupTogether), Charlotte Bradshaw, Nicole Robinson (LYRO), Amal Wakim, Joanna Marsh and William Cosby, Dr Elise Jenkins and Dr Ben Woodington, Jen Keane and Ben Reeve, Bernadette Olivier, Genevieve Hohnhen and Kellie Hush, Grace Brown, Lucinda Revell and Gordon Peters, Hana Janebdar, Lara Vandenberg, Nicola Gunby and Jason Iliffe, and Paloma Newton and Jackson Gritching. Founders of GroupTogether and LYRO provide testimonials describing fundraising support and network introductions.
Latest developments
The fund's news section lists an Impact Report 2022/23 published in September 2023, and press coverage from March 2023 on the launch of 'The Female Founder Series' with Wavemaker, B Capital and 1982 Ventures, on the gender distribution of Australian startup funding, and from November 2021 on an Australian VC signing a pledge to invest in more female-founded start-ups.
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Market position
The fund positions itself within a segment of venture capital dedicated to women founders, citing data that approximately 2% of venture capital funding reaches women founders.
The fund targets women-led companies it describes as overlooked by other venture investors and underrepresented in Artesian's other portfolios, and states that it provides portfolio companies with advice, introductions and access to Artesian's network in addition to capital.
Go-to-market
Women founders and women-led, high-growth startups raising Series A and Series B rounds, together with limited partners and cornerstone investors backing the fund.
Compiled by commissioned research from 4 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsThe fund published its Impact Report for 2022/23 in its news section.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 4
primary sources listed
- femaleleaders.vc ↗femaleleaders.vc · web
4 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does femaleleaders.vc ↗ do?
- Venture fund by Artesian investing at Series A and B in women-led, high-growth startups.
- Who founded femaleleaders.vc ↗?
- femaleleaders.vc ↗ was founded by Jeremy.
- Who are femaleleaders.vc ↗'s investors?
- femaleleaders.vc ↗'s investors include Artesian.
- Where is femaleleaders.vc ↗ headquartered?
- femaleleaders.vc ↗ is headquartered in Sydney, AU.