Real Change Does Not Happen Inside One Organisation
Creating meaningful change for women takes more than capital. It requires policy that shifts systems.
Systems Change
From the beginning, F5 Collective has believed that commercial action and structural advocacy must work together if we are serious about closing the funding gap for women in business.
That belief led us to co-author and pass California Senate Bill SB 54, landmark legislation requiring venture capital firms in the world's largest venture capital market to publicly report the diversity of the founders they fund. For the first time, the industry is being held to account with transparent data rather than assumptions. What gets measured gets managed.
SB 54 has since set an important precedent for other jurisdictions exploring how transparency can accelerate a more inclusive capital market. F5 Collective was formally acknowledged on the floor of the California State Senate for its contribution to this work.
Where We Are Currently
Today our advocacy continues through policy and reform conversations in Australia and internationally, including engagement across G20 and United Nations initiatives. For us, policy work is not separate from our commercial mission.
It is part of the same commitment to creating greater economic participation and ownership for women.
For F5 Collective, advocacy is not separate from our commercial work. It is part of the same vision, creating generational change through economic participation and ownership for women.