Vested Angels

Vested Angels 

A syndicate for women, built so professional women can access high-quality early-stage deal flow in impact tech and participate in it with the same rigour as any professional investor.

17% of VC partners in Australia are women. All-female founding teams received 2% of Australian venture capital in 2024 — down from 4% the year before. In Q3 2025, 100% of Series B+ rounds went to male-only founding teams.

These numbers are connected. We believe that when women don't hold seats at the investment table, different founders get overlooked, different problems go unsolved, and a measurable amount of capital gets misallocated. Vested Angels exists to change who invests — and by extension, who gets funded.

What We Back

Values-led, impact-driven companies at pre-seed and seed stage. Primarily Australia and New Zealand, with deal flow access across Europe and Southeast Asia.

We look for startups solving real problems at the intersection of technology and human outcomes: women's health and health science, financial inclusion, climate, the care economy, education, and the future of work. At pre-seed and seed, the fundamentals we care about are early customer evidence, a problem worth solving at scale, an MVP and, founders who understand their market deeply enough to iterate fast when the first version doesn't work. A polished deck is not the signal. How a founder thinks is.

We have a strong preference for teams with women in leadership. This is a deliberate weight in our evaluation, not a prerequisite. Companies with at least one female founder performed 63% better than all-male founding teams (First Round Capital's ten-year portfolio study). Female-led teams generate 78 cents in revenue per dollar invested, compared to 31 cents for male-led teams (BCG/MassChallenge, 2018). The market hasn't priced this in. That is our opportunity.

After each investment, members receive regular updates on every portfolio company; what's working, what's changed, and what hasn't performed as expected. You'll know what's happening between capital events, not only when there's a problem.

The composition of a cap table matters beyond the cheque. Research shows that startups backed by well-networked, experienced angels are significantly more likely to secure follow-on VC financing. For women-led companies that already face a steeper climb to Series A, a cap table of influential investors with relevant skills and networks is a structural advantage. That is what Vested Angels is designed to build. 

Who This Is For

Professional women who are ready to put their capital to work. Whether this is your first angel investment or your fifteenth, there is a place here.

Angel investing does not have to stop at the cheque. Many of our members bring domain expertise — in health, enterprise technology, government, finance, or operations — that is directly valuable to the founders we back. Syndicate members who want to go deeper can formalise that relationship as a startup advisor, typically compensated with equity that vests over two years. It is how an investment portfolio becomes a portfolio career: capital working alongside skills, network, and time.

For women who have spent decades building professional expertise, this is one of the more direct ways to put that expertise to work in a context where it genuinely moves outcomes — and where the founders receiving it are often the ones who need it most.

Vested Impact is the learning and research platform that sits alongside this syndicate, covering gender bias in startup funding, how early-stage investing works, and the evidence base behind the thesis. Learn with Vested Impact. Invest with Vested Angels.