About us

Bringing together the public and private sector to drive progress. The Invest in Women Taskforce is made up of organisations that share the desire to drive economic growth by addressing the gender funding gap and providing the support women need to succeed in business.

To deliver this ambition, the Invest in Women Taskforce operates through a three-part governance model that drives impact at every stage of the funding and growth journey: The Partners Board, The Capital-Raising Board and The Ecosystem Working Group. Together, they are focused on accelerating progress where it matters most. 

The Partners Board

Having mobilised a large global funding pool, capital is being unlocked for two crucial levers of change - funding the female and mixed fund managers and funding the founders of female and mixed teams.

The Partners Board will: 

  • Monitor the pipeline, deployment and quarterly reporting
  • Encourage collaborations between partners 

Capital-Raising Board 

Exploring new sources of capital commitments, the Capital-Raising Board will: 

  • Target additional capital commitments to the Invest in Women Taskforce funding pool to achieve required scale across sectors and regions 
  • Report on progress and champion increased levels of investment and ease of access for female founders

Ecosystem Working Group

To create an environment for female founders to start and scale high growth businesses in the UK. The Ecosystem Working Group runs four subcommittees to ensure maximum impact by focusing on:

  • Increasing the pipeline of high growth female founders 
  • Conditions to scale for high growth female founders 
  • Driving systemic change
  • Using data for good
Find out more about the Ecosystem

Making the UK the best place in the world to be a female entrepreneur

£250bn

could be added to the UK economy if women were to start and scale their business at the same rate as men.

- Rose Review

<2%

Fully female founded businesses receive less than 2% of equity investment

- Beauhurst x Invest in Women Taskforce

2x

Female investors are 2x as likely to back female entrepreneurs

- Kauffman Fellows

35%

higher returns on Investment are generated by teams with a female founder compared to all male teams

- Kauffman Fellows
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Our funding partners

The Invest in Women Taskforce is proud to work with leading investors that are committed to backing female investors and entrepreneurs across the UK.