Working Capital is an early stage venture fund that invests in scalable innovations to meet the growing corporate demand for more transparent and ethical supply chains—addressing the urgent need to protect vulnerable workers and source responsibly. It was created by Humanity United, part of The Omidyar Group, a diverse collection of organizations, each guided by its own approach, but united by a common desire to catalyze social impact.
Location: United States
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2018
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 10
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 10.05.2023 | Prewave | prewave.co... | $30.55M | Austria, V... |
| 07.03.2022 | Provenance | provenance... | $4.98M | United Kin... |
| 26.04.2018 | Quizrr | quizrr.se | $1.3M | Sweden, St... |
| - | OpenSC | opensc.org | $4M | - |
| - | Altana Tra... | altana.ai | $122M | United Sta... |
| - | SupplyShif... | supplyshif... | $10M | United Sta... |
| - | Phylagen | phylagen.c... | $14M | - |
| - | Sundar, In... | sundar.io | $1.3M | United Sta... |
| - | Kenzen | kenzen.com | $5M | United Sta... |
| - | Ulula | ulula.com | $1M | United Sta... |
Persons 5
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Dan | Viederman | - | linkedin.c... | - | d********n... | - |
| - | Ed | Marcum | Managing D... | linkedin.c... | - | e*****m@wo... | - |
| - | Paarul | Dudeja | Managing P... | linkedin.c... | - | p*****a@wo... | - |
| - | Evan | Okun | Investment... | linkedin.c... | - | e***n@work... | - |
| - | Ivy | Olsen | Operations... | linkedin.c... | - | i****n@wor... | - |
News 23
| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.06.2020 | Innovative Finance to Address Bonded Labor in Supply Chains | The Working Capital Fund seeks to scale innovative approaches that solve longstanding problems of la... |
| 23.06.2020 | Corporate Social Investing: Our Reflections From Implementin... | We noted with appreciation the article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on The Rise of the C... |
| 16.04.2020 | WCIF Portfolio Companies Helping To Mitigate COVID-19 Impact... | Several WCIF portfolio companies are making services available to help mitigate COVID-19 impacts. Al... |
| 16.04.2020 | Vulnerable And At-risk Workers Can Protect Themselves With T... | Hundreds of millions of workers around the globe face dangerously hot conditions in their workplaces... |
| 16.04.2020 | Institutional Changes At The Working Capital Fund | We hope this communication finds you, your loved ones and your colleagues safe and healthy, and your... |
| 19.12.2019 | Perspectives on Impact: A Discussion at SOCAP | The annual SOCAP Conference is the place where impact investors come together to share, learn, and i... |
| 24.09.2019 | Assessing potential impact before making an investment | We invest in companies that will decrease worker vulnerability to exploitation and increase respect ... |
| 16.09.2019 | Working Capital Among Leading Seed Investors for OpenSC | Working Capital is delighted to announce its investment in OpenSC’s $4 million round of seed funding... |
| 24.07.2019 | The Sustainability Consortium announces partnership with Sup... | We are very pleased to announce that The Sustainability Consortium has selected SupplyShift, one of ... |
| 18.06.2019 | The Need to Invest in Transparency Schemes and Risk Assessme... | In our last newsletter, we mentioned that we’d be taking a closer look at some of the themes that em... |
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Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 06.02.2024 | SAP and Working Capital Fund Announce Partnership to Build E... | Working Capital Fund Logo SAP partners with Working Capital Fund, investing strategically to create ... | einpresswi... |
| 21.09.2022 | Vienna-based Prewave rakes in €11 million for supply chain r... | As businesses manage globally distributed suppliers, the need for transparency across the entire sup... | tech.eu/20... |
| 16.03.2022 | London-based startup procures $8.2 million to make supply ch... | Despite being core to how all businesses operate, there is far too much friction in the process of p... | tech.eu/20... |
| 07.03.2022 | Greenwashing, no more! London platform raises $5 million for... | Four out of every five shoppers are changing their purchase preferences based on sustainability. How... | tech.eu/20... |
| 18.06.2020 | Three AgFunder portfolio companies selected as World Economi... | We’re proud to announce that The World Economic Forum has named three AgFunder portfolio companies t... | agfunderne... |
| 14.02.2019 | Thiel-Backed Breakout Ventures Invests in Phylagen $14m Seri... | Microbiome data analytics company Phylagen has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Peter Thie... | agfunderne... |
| 11.09.2018 | Working Capital Closes Supply Chain Innovation Fund, at $25.... | Working Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based early stage venture fund that invests in innovative solut... | finsmes.co... |
| 26.04.2018 | QuizRR raises $1.3 million to improve working conditions in ... | Stockholm, Sweden – QuizRR, an Edtech company offering innovative training solutions to advance corp... | workingcap... |
| - | London-based startup procures $8.2 million to make supply ch... | Despite being core to how all businesses operate, there is far too much friction in the process of p... | tech.eu/20... |
| - | Greenwashing, no more! London platform raises $5 million for... | Four out of every five shoppers are changing their purchase preferences based on sustainability. How... | tech.eu/20... |