Become the decision maker
Learn to lead through real projects, customers, teams and budgets. Bring your curiosity; develop your judgement.
Female ambition deserves
a bigger stage.
A new generation of women leading enterprise, shaping investment and building a more abundant world. Beginning in Brisbane. Open to possibility.
A bold proposal. A community to build. A future to lead.
Explore the planning material →If equality were
being designed now...
What would women want and need from the places, workplaces and systems around them?
Begin with women's own experiences. From the outback to the city, across cultures, body types, ages and ways of living, the answers can shape what we build together.
Explore the big question →
Talent is everywhere.
Opportunity should be too.
More women shaping what gets built, what gets funded, and what comes next.
500 Queens Venture Capital is a proposal to connect women with the capital, practical experience and relationships to become CEOs, enterprise leaders and decision makers.
Start with something useful. Build a business, take an existing one forward, lead a research team or help a community thrive. You do not need to arrive with a startup. You need room to begin.
Discover the vision →500+
Women developing leadership in the Australian starting ambition.
120
Original enterprise ideas to explore, question and develop.
24
AI Queen mentor concepts, alongside experienced people.
Your ambition belongs here.
An invitation to future founders, returning workers, experienced leaders, researchers, mentors and backers.
Build something that matters
Explore enterprise ideas spanning care, energy, intelligent tools, culture and the biggest scientific questions.
Help opportunity grow
Contribute mentoring, a place to work, a practical project or backing for a clear result.
A different kind
of royal ambition.
Joyful Responsible Abundance.
A rewarding life. Responsibility for consequences. Prosperity that reaches more people.
Here, being a Queen is about the confidence and capability to lead. The ambition extends from a first paid leadership role to resilient communities, shared intelligence and civilisation-scale challenges.
Meet the bigger vision →
From a first spark
to real responsibility.
Find your people
Meet others through learning, culture and a useful problem.
Explore your direction
Choose an enterprise idea and work with mentors to test it.
Practise leadership
Make decisions about customers, money, people and delivery.
Build the next chapter
Pursue paid responsibility, grants, ownership or business succession.
A funding gap.
A leadership opportunity.
These figures describe founding teams. Our ambition goes further: women with meaningful authority over strategy, budgets, hiring, ownership and investment.
The original vision seeks a 50/50 funding balance. The practical work begins with leadership development, useful enterprises and a delivery community.
Explore the proposed funding model →Brisbane beginnings.
Open horizons.
Born in Brisbane, imagined for Australia and connected to a wider world. The starting vision grows from at least 500 women in Australia to international ambitions of 10,000 and 50,000.
Local people shape local programmes. Knowledge, mentoring and useful tools travel between them.
Follow the wider horizon →
A Council of archetypes.
A world of possibility.
Meet 24 ageless AI Queens, each a distinct expression of cultural identity, mastered intelligence and vitality. Their original archetypes inspire individual clothing, colours and forms, from athletic to voluptuous. Follow each Queen into her domain, learning sessions and connected enterprise ideas.
The future needs
your kind of ambition.
Bring something you want to learn, a problem worth solving or experience to share. Find a place in the idea and help shape what happens next.