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There’s a Market for Social Change, So Why Not Invest In It?
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...
The Fund’s 2021 Annual Meeting
-- 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...
Working Capital Innovation Investment Fund (WCIF) makes pioneering Investment in Honest Job Holdings LTD
-- 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...
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Working Capital Innovation Fund Named as One of ImpactAssets’ Tenth IA 50 Impact Fund Listing
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...
Our Views: Upstream Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector
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...
Transparency: Theory of Change Spotlight
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...
Leadership by Gender at Working Capital Investment Fund
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...
How Innovation Can Help End Forced Labor in Global Supply Chains
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...
2020 Impact Report Press Release
Working Capital Innovation Fund Releases 2020 Impact Report Media Highlights: The Working Capital Innovation Fund supports systemic improvements in the protection of labor rights in global supply chains.Working Capital's 2020 Impact Report outlines the process for...
2019 – 20 Annual Report
Click the links below to download and view Working Capital's 2020 Impact Report and affiliated documents. 2020 Impact ReportDownload 2020 Impact Report SummaryDownload 2020 Impact Report Press ReleaseDownload
WCIF Webinar: Pioneering Technology to Engage Workers
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...
FinTech With a Labor Lens
September 17th, 2020 Financial technology – “FinTech” – is an area where investment has led to impact on a large scale. As a former fintech investor, I’ve seen FinTech cover a diversity of interventions: digital-first banking, payments, insurance, alternative lending,...
COVID-19: An opportunity for equality
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Author: Ed Marcum, Managing Director, Working Capital Fund 19 Aug 2020 Read on BHRRC Website: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/covid-19-an-opportunity-for-equality/ COVID-19 has highlighted and exacerbated the...