While the tech industry is a domain that has long been criticised as being a sexist boy's club, female entrepreneurs say they are starting to see change.

Young entrepreneur Jessica Wilson has had incredible success after inventing a designer clothes shopping app called Stashd, which has thousands of users and big-name retailers on board.

"We work with 3,000 brands, we've got users in 94 countries now ... kind of like Tinder for shopping," Ms Wilson said.

"When I first started it was hilarious.

"I'd go to a networking event with one of my interns who happened to be male and they'd be like [to him] 'Hi, so you're the founder of Stashd?', and they'd be looking directly at my intern," Ms Wilson said.

"I'm like 'No, I'm the CEO, nice to meet you'," she said.

Ms Wilson said she had encountered changes and challenges within the tech industry since she started her company 18 months ago.

"Now it's becoming a lot more even," she said.

Ms Wilson is based at Fishburners, a Sydney technology hub which is encouraging women to join Australia's fledgling start-up scene to promote gender diversity in the tech industry.

About 150 workers and budding CEOs rent space to work on start-ups within the centre.

The space is becoming known as Sydney's Silicon Valley, and there is now a waiting list for rented desks there.

More women are renting desks at Fishburners and finding investors for their apps and websites.

Entrepreneur Corrine Watt said she was about to launch her start-up - a booking service for health retreats - and said more women were joining the scene thanks to word-of-mouth.

"I think women are really good at networking and also really good at sharing and referring, so I think once the community gets aware of places like [Fishburners] it tends to take on a life of its own," Ms Watt said.

Freya Hunter said she was new to the tech world, after leaving her previous career working in public relations firms to take up a role as a communications manager for a new start-up named Recomazing.

She said while the start-up scene was predominantly male, she and her colleagues are trying to set up support networks for women.

"There's actually a really supportive culture, it's really nice."

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Sydney-based entrepreneur Tom Walenkamp left a stable job in corporate finance a few years ago to start his own company. He now runs a successful online wine store from Fishburners.

"I realised the corporate world wasn't for me. I wanted a lot more autonomy in my work hours, what I thought was important, what I wanted to prioritise and basically structure a life that I would be excited living," he explained.

Mark Cowper launched his app called Recomazing a week ago and said it has been a leap of faith.

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"Our new service essentially helps businesses ask their customers for recommendations, and those recommendations are then delivered to all of the customer's social contacts," he said.

"Right now certainly we're seeing the rise of the entrepreneur. I think it's really important to ensure that, before you really set your heart on doing it, because it's really hard work and you're working under the clock, that you have some kind of validation that it's a genuine problem, that people are willing to pay to solve that problem."

Mr Cowper said most start-ups are destined to fail and many young companies would appreciate extra grants or support from the government.

"Depending who you speak to, they would say there needs to be a hell of a lot more support," he observed.

"Certainly we see a lot more support overseas when compared with Australia in terms of encouraging people to actually invest in start-ups, in innovation and actually the government rebates that get given to those people who do take risk on actually building the economy through innovative tech start-ups like us."

Turnbull 'very supportive' of tech sector

Ms Wilson met with Malcolm Turnbull before he became Prime Minister and told him she thought the Government needed to implement a coding curriculum at primary school.

"I actually met him when he was doing interviews for Girls in ICT [information and communications technology] Day," she said.

"He agrees that we need to set role models for different girls as they're growing up - different education, teaching kids how to code.

"Making it normalised for our youth as well, educating our youth, making women in tech more of as a norm in industry. So he's very supportive."

Sam Chandler, the Australian founder of now San Francisco-based PDF software company Nitro, said that he has already told the new Assistant Minister for Innovation, 25-year-old Wyatt Roy, that improving technology education to create a bigger talent pool is a key to bringing Australia's tech ex-pats home.

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"I'd love for us to have a bigger presence in Australia - we're expanding in San Francisco, we're expanding in Dublin at the same sort of rate, but we're not expanding in Australia because of the lack of talent," he told RN Breakfast.

Start-up founder Tom Walenkamp said giving young people an extra hand will have enormous benefits for the economy.

"You need that kind of innovation to be staying on the forefront of developed nations," he argued.

"That's why America is able to keep doing so well, they've got such innovative companies popping up there, and Europe's doing really well, countries like Israel are doing really well because their innovation entrepreneurship is so high."

Mr Chandler told RN Breakfast that tax rates also play a big role once companies are larger and making money.

"If you look at Ireland today, Nitro's scaling there, LinkedIn is scaling there, Facebook is scaling there, every company I know that looks like Nitro is scaling in Ireland because the government originally made it very compelling from a tax point of view to be established there as early as I think the '80s," he said.