{"podcast":{"title":"Day One®","slug":"day-one-7096683","podcast_index_feed_id":7096683,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/n/dayone/","website_url":"https://dayone.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/40765218-5b56-4d16-871f-1645ea227655/Day-One-3000-All-Rights-Reserved.png","author":"Day One","episode_count":500,"summary":"We're for founders & operators. https://dayone.fm/shows","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/day-one-7096683"},"episode":{"title":"Closing the Gender Investment Gap with Data with Noga Edelstein","slug":"closing-the-gender-investment-gap-with-data-with-noga-edelstein","published_at":"2026-05-04T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/day-one-7096683/closing-the-gender-investment-gap-with-data-with-noga-edelstein","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/day-one-7096683","url":"https://dayone.fm/show/first-cheque/","audio_url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2f1470b8-6890-4076-a32a-5a5d455a43a6.mp3","summary":"Episode Summary Noga Edelstein is the lead of the Equity Clear initiative, a not-for-profit effort to get Australian investors tracking pipeline diversity data with a common standard. She's also a former General Counsel at Yahoo, a multi-time founder, and has had her fingerprints across the Australian startup ecosystem for over a decade. In this episode, Cheryl and Maxine unpack why pre-seed funding to women is at its lowest level ever and how Equity Clear is building the data infrastructure to finally see where diverse founders are falling out of the pipeline. Noga shares what the UK's five-year head start has revealed, including that angel groups with at least 15% women invest in 10X the number of women-led companies, and why the mere act of tracking your own pipeline drives better outcomes. You'll also hear how a broken website form accidentally proved that women disproportionately use cold inbound to reach investors, why male founders and LPs should be asking their investors about diversity tracking, and what sport can teach us about leveling the playing field through systemic tweaks like funded childcare for founders. Noga closes with her Big Cojones moment: quitting her General Counsel role at Yahoo with a newborn to go all in on a startup. Time Stamps 00:00 Intro 02:27 – Noga's first investment: dollar-mite savings accounts in primary school 10:02 – What is Equity Clear and why pipeline data is the missing piece 14:40 – Why closing the gender gap matters now: productivity, economics, and AI bias 19:27 – Pre-seed funding to women is at its lowest ever despite lower barriers to building 24:44 – Why collecting diversity data feels hard but isn't 28:32 – Lessons from the UK: what five years of tracking has revealed 32:02 – Maxine's accidental experiment: when a brok…","meta_description":"Episode Summary Noga Edelstein is the lead of the Equity Clear initiative, a not-for-profit effort to get Australian investors tracking pipeline diversity…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3630,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/day-one-7096683/episodes/closing-the-gender-investment-gap-with-data-with-noga-edelstein/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/day-one-7096683/closing-the-gender-investment-gap-with-data-with-noga-edelstein.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}