{"id":138358,"date":"2025-09-15T07:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138358\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:16:10","slug":"forrest-zampatti-families-back-scale-investors-first-venture-capital-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138358\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest, Zampatti families back Scale Investors first venture capital fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The families of Andrew and Nicola Forrest and the late fashion designer Carla Zampatti have poured millions of dollars into a new venture capital fund that exclusively invests in female-led businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Scale Investors has secured $26 million for its debut venture capital fund, which is aiming to reach $100 million. The fund is backed by the children of Zampatti, the Forrests\u2019 Minderoo Foundation, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/property\/residential\/tpg-s-thickins-joins-pe-trophy-home-ranks-with-15m-coogee-pad-20241127-p5ktzy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thickins Family Office<\/a>, founded by Celina Thickins and her husband, Joel Thickins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/financial-services\/joel-thickins-knows-better-than-the-bankers-20231031-p5egco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the head of private equity firm TPG Asia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The families of Andrew and Nicola Forrest and the late fashion designer Carla Zampatti have poured millions of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[84,4203,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-138358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}