FAQs
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If you're a man wanting to support, please click HERE to add your details. Men are invited to participate as investors, allies, and advocates.
The best thing you can do is to fund more women and meaningfully help them to grow their businesses. We also invite you to do your part to amplify women’s voices and create more diverse leadership teams.
If you’re a male investor, please access the database to find more women-founded companies to invest in. If you’re a male founder, use the list to bring diversity to your cap table, advisory network, or board.
If you want to support or partner with Capital X, please get in touch.
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No! Solving the gender gap in tech isn’t just a women’s issue; it's a collective one. The platform remains focused on elevating women founders and leaders.
Men are invited to participate as supporters, allies, and advocates - helping fund women and grow their businesses, amplify women’s voices and create more diverse leadership teams.
If you’re a male investor, please access the database to find more women-founded companies to invest in. If you’re a male founder, use the list to bring diversity to your cap table, advisory network, or board.
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Judging by the feedback we've had, the answer is yes. We need an easier way to find and connect with women in the tech and startup ecosystem, and to make women founders and investors more visible and easier to contact.
Capital X is just a starting point. It isn’t just about adding your name and walking away. Meaningful impact will only be achieved through active participation and collaboration.
We encourage you to get in touch with your ideas for how you can contribute.
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By using LinkedIn and Bridge for connections, we are aiming to ensure that members have control over who can contact them, minimising unwanted outreach. We’ve opted for these platforms precisely because they offer a higher level of privacy than open email lists, and we’re open to feedback from users to improve these safeguards.
Please use common sense and respect when engaging with members of the Capital X network.
Naturally we ask that you don’t mass-market or harass.
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We admire all entrepreneurs. For now, Capital X is focused on supporting founders of tech, tech-enabled and high growth startups, including consumer products. Early-stage founders are encouraged to join.
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Yes. If you identify as a a woman, Capital X is for you.
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If you identify as a woman founder of a tech or tech-enabled startup, an investor in startups, or a mentor, advisor or director with experience in startup and tech, we encourage you to join Capital X.
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We’ll measure success by more than just connections. Success stories (including women founders securing funding or joining boards) will be collected and shared.
We’re in the early stages but will actively build on the platform and seek to measure our impact.
The network can be activated in a number of ways, including:
By women founders to raise funding, find mentors and other roles
By investors of all genders to find deal flow from women founders
By founders of all genders to increase the diversity of their cap tables advisory panels and boards
By women to find new investing roles
By media and event organisers to find and profile voices that reflect our ecosystem
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The name Capital X is a celebration of of women, but also recognition of our collective responsibility to create the future we want to live in.
X is the chromosome we all share. Men have it, but wom have twice as much.
Capital can take many forms, including financial and social. Both are critical to closing the gender funding gap for women in startups.
X marks the spot. The X factor. The word we use when we can’t find the words.