Giant Leap Fund

Giant Leap 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.

Investment Mandate

• Positive impact from every sale that is measurable and aligned with Giant Leap’s Impact Themes
• Ability to generate 10x returns in 4 – 7 years
• Tech-enabled impact businesses (sector agnostic)
• Late seed / early Series A (post-revenue)
• Initial cheque of $100k or $500k (depending on the stage of the business) with potential to follow-on
• Investee Valuation Range: $2m to $20m

Themes

The fund is sector agnostic, but looks for impact in line with three broad themes.

• Empowering People – education, increasing access to products/services, addressing diversity and inclusion challenges, etc.
• Sustainable Living – clean-tech, waste reduction, agriculture, water, etc.
• Health & Wellbeing – aged care, mental health, medical innovations, etc.

What to include in your pitch deck

We suggest you include the following information in no more than 10 slides:

• The problem you’re solving
• The size of the market opportunity
• Your vision / solution, including value proposition and business model
• Impact
• Traction, including historical revenues
• Projected revenues and pathway to achieving growth
• Funding ask (and what you will use the funds for)
• Your team and experience