Join the Founding Pilot Cohort
The Equity Clear Standard is entering its next phase of implementation.
Equity Clear is inviting investors and other capital allocators to participate in a national pilot designed to improve visibility across the funding pipeline and strengthen ecosystem evidence.
Participation is intended to fit within existing systems and workflows and does not require immediate data submission or formal commitment.
Who should participate?
The pilot is designed for organisations involved in investment decision-making, capital allocation and founder progression across Australia's innovation ecosystem.
Designed to fit within existing systems and workflows
Participation is intended to require minimal additional time or resources from reporting organisations. Data will continue to be collected through existing systems and workflows and mapped to the Common Data Model.
Why participate
For years, investors, policymakers and ecosystem leaders have sought to understand why funding outcomes remain heavily concentrated in men-only founding teams.
While outcome data is improving, the ecosystem still lacks visibility into how opportunities move through the funding pipeline and where opportunities may be missed.
Confidential Benchmarking
Compare pipeline composition and progression patterns with peers.
Operational Insight
Understand how opportunities move through your own processes.
Market-Level Evidence
Access insights that do not currently exist in a comparable form.
Founding Participant Recognition
Be recognised as part of the first cohort helping establish the next phase of reporting infrastructure.
Optional Working Group
Organisations wishing to play a more active role can participate in an optional Working Group focused on refining definitions, implementation guidance and future iterations of the Standard.
Participation in the Working Group is not required to participate in the pilot.
Privacy & Reporting Principles
Aggregated Reporting
Public reporting is aggregated.
Anonymised Outputs
No deal-level data is published.
No Public Firm-Level Disclosure
Firm-level results are not made public.
Confidential Benchmarking
Insights are provided privately to participants.
What happens next?
The pilot will test the practicality, credibility and value of the Equity Clear Standard across a diverse range of participating organisations.
Insights from the pilot will inform future refinement of definitions, reporting processes, governance settings and implementation pathways.
Stay connected to Equity Clear and learn more about pilot participation, future reporting opportunities and the next phase of implementation.
Registering interest does not require immediate data submission or formal commitment.