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We're Hiring! Working Capital is looking for An INVESTMENT ASSOCIATE AND A 2022 Summer ASSOCIATE Please refer to the attached JDs. Interested candidates should email their resumes to [email protected]. Thank you for your interest! WCIF Summer Associate WCIF Investment Associate/Analyst
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...
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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...
Webinar: ENGAGING SUPPLY CHAIN WORKERS USING TECHNOLOGY – A CONVERSATION ABOUT PATHWAYS TO IMPACT AT SCALE
A WEBINARHosted by Working Capital Fund How does worker engagement supported by technology lead to an improvement in respect for labor rights and improvement in working conditions, at scale? How is technology being used to support supplier responsibility and...
Portfolio Company Spotlight: Phylagen Featured on The Today Show
New test allows employers to protect workers by swabbing for coronavirus on workplace surfaces: Phylagen has launched its Surface Test, enabling businesses (and others) to take a swab of a surface and detect if COVID-19 is present and in what concentrations. The...
Portfolio Company Spotlight: Provenance Wins 1 Million Euro Prize
Provenance wins 1 million euro prize from the European Commission for ‘Blockchains for Social Good’ WCIF heartily congratulates the team at Provenance, a pioneer in using blockchain and other technologies to support the responsible business. This game-changing Award...
Our Reflections From Implementing A CSI Initiative
Corporate Social Investing June 2020 To the Editor of SSIR, I was pleased and encouraged to see your piece on The Rise of the Corporate Social Investor by Karoline Heitmann et al. New CSI approaches offer the potential to reimagine relationships between corporations...
Webinar: Innovative Finance to Address Bonded Labor in Supply Chains
June 2020 The Working Capital Fund seeks to scale innovative approaches that solve longstanding problems of labor exploitation in supply chains. One of the most persistent and egregious causes of labor exploitation in global supply chains is the requirement that...
WCIF Portfolio Companies Helping To Mitigate COVID-19 Impacts
April 16, 2020 Several WCIF portfolio companies are making services available to help mitigate COVID-19 impacts. All are well-suited to support a transition to a scalable, impactful, digital future of supply chain social responsibility As you can see from the...
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