AFC presents: Coffee with Giant Leap for Women's Entrepreneurship Day

AFC Presents: In Conversation - Three Founders, Honestly Speaking

Did you know it’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Day on Thursday the 19th of November? We’re kicking off the day with coffee, pastries and a conversation with Giant Leap, talking fundraising and investing as a female founder.

📅 Key Event Details

Date: Thursday 19 November

Time: 9am - 10:30am

Location: Stone & Chalk Melbourne

Free to attend

The ConversationGiant Leap backs visionary founders reimagining the industries that matter most, and impact investing is their focus. Over coffee, they’ll talk through what they’re seeing across their portfolio (women-led businesses are running at 55 to 60%, well above the market average), where female founders tend to thrive in the VC landscape, and what actually makes someone investable. Then it’s open to the room, so bring your questions on fundraising, impact investing and early-stage bets.

What You’ll Learn

What impact investors are actually looking for in a founder

Where female founders have an edge in the VC landscape

What it takes to be investable, straight from the people writing the cheques

Coffee Sponsor: Giant Leap

Giant Leap backs visionary founders reimagining the industries that matter most. Since 2016, we’ve invested in over 35+ companies across climate, health, and people. We back businesses built to reshape systems, transform industries and deliver outstanding financial returns alongside measurable impact on the world.

Venue Sponsor: Stone & Chalk Melbourne

We're hosted by Stone & Chalk, one of Australia's largest innovation hubs and home to hundreds of startups, scaleups, and the people building them. Their Melbourne space sits in the heart of the city's startup community, and we're stoked to be running this one in their room.

AFC is backed by Innovation Victoria

Innovation Victoria is the newly merged organisation combining LaunchVic and Breakthrough Victoria, bringing support, capability building and investment together in one place to grow Victoria's startup ecosystem. Their backing is what lets us run these events.

Grateful to have them backing us.