Impact Fund Giant Leap Makes Giant Impact Supporting Showcase

Giant Leap is an impact venture capital fund that backs game-changing founders using business as a force for good. Giant Leap Fund is Australia’s first venture capital fund that is 100% dedicated to investing in impact startups – rapidly scalable businesses that blend financial returns with real and measurable social and environmental benefits. We invest across the following themes:

Sustainable Living: Eg. Clean-tech, waste reduction, sustainable agriculture & water use

• 6,210 Tonnes of CO2-e emissions avoided (equivalent to 1,351 cars off road); 248,741 cumulative tonnes*

Health and Wellbeing: Eg. Aged care, mental health, medical innovation, longevity

• 247,714 Employees impacted by improved workplace policies; 346,389 cumulative employees

Empowering People: Eg. Education, social equity, addressing diversity & inclusion challenges

• $47.4 Million savings to the healthcare system; $74.4m cumulative healthcare savings

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We are so excited to have Giant Leap come aboard to sponsor our Melbourne Climate Tech Showcase. A huge, solar powered thank you from us at Climate Salad for your support!

Giant Leap Partner Rachel Yang will deliver an opening address at the showcase. Rachel is also the Co-Chair of Startup Victoria, a non-profit, grassroots organisation supporting startup founders succeed. She is a member of the Victorian State Government’s Innovation Taskforce. Her background is in management consulting and corporate finance, and she previously co-founded a non-profit organisation to raise funds and awareness for Motor Neurone Disease.

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Want to learn more?

Subscribe here to Small Steps -  a newsletter run by Giant Leap. It’s a fortnightly update on stories, insights, and trends for the impact founders (or future founders) using startups as a force for good. Little by little, we can tackle the world’s biggest problems. Topics include:

• Deep dives into topics we’re thinking about
• News that stopped us in our tracks over the last few weeks
• Job opportunities and updates from our portfolio companies (keep an eye on our jobs board here)
• Handy/interesting/funny tidbits we’ve collected on our journey

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And if you haven't already bought tickets, come along to our Melbourne Climate Tech Showcase on April 6. Tickets and more info available here:

https://events.humanitix.com/climate-tech-showcase-melbourne

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