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A Response to openDemocracy's 'The blindness of using venture capital to fight human trafficking'    WORKING CAPITAL FUND TAKES ON THE PROBLEM OF FORCED LABOR AND EXPLOITATION IN GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS WITH VENTURE CAPITAL.openDemocracy published an article titled ‘The blindness of using venture capital to fight human trafficking.’ As the only...

-- 5TH Annual Working Capital Virtual  Event  SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2021 In late September we hosted our fifth Annual Meeting of Limited Partners and portfolio companies. We heard presentations from WCIF’s newest investments. We also convened three Workshops on topics that are central to our continued impact, and on which we have opinions. WORKSHOP 1...

-- Partnership Seeks to Disrupt Exploitative Labor Recruitment And Reduce Risks of Forced Labor in Supply Chains San Francisco, September 2nd, 2021- The Working Capital Innovation Fund (WCIF) announced today a $500,000 investment in Honest Jobs Holdings Ltd, a Hong-Kong based responsible recruitment holding company. Honest Jobs will use the...

Portfolio Spotlight WCIF sat down with Quizrr Co-Founder Sophie Nordstrom, and Head of Product Management, Sandra Granath, to understand what makes Quizrr unique in its field and how global events have generated innovation and expansion for this education technology pioneer. One Million Digital Training Sessions WCIF Investee, Quizrr, has...

In the webinar linked below, Working Capital Innovation Fund is introducing ‘cool, innovative and practical solutions’ to the problem of child labor, to an audience of SMEs and multinational corporations associated with the International Organization of Employers. Watch to learn more about these tools and how they can be used to address child...

Over the last year, the developmental evaluation (DE) team worked with four investees – Provenance, QuizRR, Ulula, and OpenSC – to support their impact measurement and management (IMM) activities. All investees have been forced to confront the challenges of the pandemic context, which has presented both opportunities and constraints to IMM. In this article, we are sharing selected insights and implications related to their IMM approaches, journeys, and learning along the way.

This ‘Emerging Impact Manager’ supports scalable solutions for workers in global supply chains   View the Offical Press Release Here   BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 23, 2021—ImpactAssets has named Working Capital Innovation Fund as one of the ImpactAssets 50 2021 (IA 50), a free online database for impact investors, family offices, financial...

As apart of the 2021 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector, Managing Partner Dan Viederman moderated a session entitled 'Upstream Due Diligence'.   A message from Managing Partner, Dan Viederman Thanks to the good people at the OECD Responsible Business Conduct unit, I had the pleasure of moderating a conversation...

At Working Capital Fund (WCF), we invest in innovators. Our partners pioneer ways to disrupt complex supply chains that enable the exploitation of vulnerable workers, in accordance with our Fund’s Theory of Change (ToC).         We invest in companies which disrupt supply chain exploitation with the following tools: Transparency and Traceability,...

Fewer than one-quarter of venture investments in the US go to start-ups with a female founder, and only one out of every seven goes to a female-led company, according to the latest All In report from Pitchbook and Microsoft.[1] At Working Capital Fund, our portfolio reflects a significant improvement on this industry statistic. We want to share...

This post is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ blog series on human trafficking, in which CFR fellows and other leading experts assess new approaches to improve U.S. and global efforts to curb trafficking and modern slavery. This post was authored by Dan Viederman, Managing Director of the Working...

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Technology is revolutionizing manufacturing and logistics in the global supply chain, but workers in the field and on the factory floor still suffer threats to their livelihoods, safety, and wellbeing. They lack information about their rights and the law, about health exposures, and about how to express concerns or access remedies to the...