📢 For the past 18 months I have been serving on a Government Taskforce - looking at how we can supercharge Women-led *High Growth* Businesses (inc. a few trips to Number 10 Downing Street)... 📈 This builds on much of the great work already started by The Rose Review & Rose Review Board which looks at *all* women led businesses, and the valuable data collection led by the British Business Bank, British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA), Diversity VC Level 20 and The Treasury with the Investing in Women Code. This Taskforce was specific to *High Growth* Women-Led Businesses - and was led by one - the indomitable Anne Boden. Anne founded Starling Bank in 2014 and has since scaled it to 3.6m customers, £353m in revenue last year and £195m in profit.* She truly embodies the potential of High-Growth Women-Led Businesses and we need 10,000x more Starlings in order to power our economy forward. Being on this Taskforce was not without its challenges as the topics we're tackling are so vast and complex. I wish we had the time and resources to do much more. However - today we launch our (92 page!) final report, including recommendations on how to break down barriers and support the economy. The key recommendations are: Recommendation 1: Investors should better monitor the proportion of funding they invest in female founded businesses. Recommendation 2: Firms should set their own voluntary targets for the number of women in senior investment professional roles and report against them on their websites. Recommendation 3: Increase signatories to the Investing in Women Code, particularly for private debt funds and Limited Partners, to boost investment in women-led enterprises. Recommendation 4: Drive inclusive behaviour in the investment ecosystem. The FCA should reduce the threshold for companies below 251+ employees to incorporate venture capital firms to drive greater diversity in the companies and, thus, their decision making. Recommendation 5: Roll out Female Founder Growth Boards across England. Recommendation 6: Inspire girls and women to become high-growth entrepreneurs. Recommendation 7: Improve data collection on the number of female founders. Thanks to my fellow Taskforcers ●     The Chair, Anne Boden MBE, founder of Starling Bank ●     June Angelides MBE: Investment Manager, Samos, and CEO and Founder, Mums in Tech ●     Judith Hartley: former CEO of British Patient Capital and British Business Investments, British Business Bank ●     Zandra Moore: CEO and Co-founder, Panintelligence ●     Deepali Nangia, Partner, Speedinvest and Co-founder Alma Angels ●     Jan Putnis: Partner, Slaughter and May ●     Angela Scott: Founder, TC BioPharm Ltd ●     Helen Steers: Partner, Pantheon ●     Sam Smith: Founder and former CEO at finnCap Cavendish Group Plc I couldn't have been part of this Taskforce without support from Matt Penneycard & the team at Ada Ventures. 🙏 @adaventures @AnneBoden @JuneAngelides @zandramoore