Giant Leap's FY24 Impact Report

Small Steps Vol. 111: Sharing our portfolio's impact on people and planet 👐 🌏

Since our inception, Giant Leap has been committed to backing mission driven founders solving the world’s most pressing problems across climate, health and people. We’re sharing this year’s Portfolio Impact Highlights Report to showcase how our portfolio companies are building the future we want to believe in.

The Report underscores our commitment to measuring and sharing the impact of our investments and highlights the inspiring achievements of our portfolio companies.

We’ve also shared a review of our DEI metrics and carbon footprint, with the aim of encouraging greater accountability and industry-wide change. We’re committed to leading the way in fostering diversity and genuine inclusion in the startup ecosystem, as well as reducing our environmental impact. There is always room for improvement and we’re actively on a journey of continuous progress — if you have any feedback on what we’ve shared, we’d love to hear it.

Impact Highlights

Our portfolio companies have taken bold steps to solve the world’s most pressing problems across climate, health and people. Some highlights include:

🌏 Addressing climate change and the environmental crisis: Our portfolio companies are building solutions in the built environment, supporting renewable energy adoption and enabling the circular economy. They’re helping reduce carbon emissions not just in Australia, but globally.

❤️‍🩹 Enabling better access to improved health outcomes: Our portfolio companies have improved health outcomes by creating digital programs that meet the needs of complex and vulnerable patients.

👐 Driving systemic change in education and the workplace: Through innovative education and jobs platforms, our portfolio companies are creating economic opportunity and positively shifting company cultures for underrepresented groups.

These highlights only scratch the surface, and we’re incredibly proud of what each portfolio company has accomplished.

Looking forward

Although we’re all feeling the effects of the uncertain times we’re living in, we see positive forces driving change across our themes of climate, health, and people.

Key developments, such as new climate-related disclosure laws, government investments in green technology, and the release of gender pay gap data from nearly 5,000 Australian employers, are creating opportunities for sustainable, high-performing businesses.

Looking to the future, we’re excited about the opportunities to deepen our impact and back founders committed to creating systemic change.

We hope you find the report insightful. You can download the full report here.

From the Giant Leap team 👋