The F5 Collective Fund One has achieved a successful portfolio exit. Established as a gender-lens venture capital fund, Fund One invested in women founders building high-growth technology companies across Australia, the UK and the US. Our mandate required a woman on the founding team with a meaningful equity stake, ensuring capital flowed directly to female leadership and ownership.

Fund One also became one of the most important learning experiences in F5 Collective's history. Working alongside founders gave us a front row seat to the realities of women's entrepreneurship. While venture capital was the right solution for a small number of businesses, it became clear that most women were building different types of companies with different capital needs and different pathways to growth.

That insight reshaped everything.

Fund One did more than invest in exceptional founders. It provided the evidence that has informed everything F5 Collective has built since: a broader vision of capital that supports women not only to raise investment, but to build, acquire, grow and own businesses across the full economy.