Let's do something good together.

Our Thesis

FUND1: Faith & Founder Focus I Growth I Impact Beyond Profits

Purpose

To fund early-stage growth companies that are:

  • Managed by a Christian owner
  • Established and achieving (or near to achieving) positive cashflow
  • In need of equity capital to fund an expansion strategy
  • Pursuing a strategy that includes Gospel priorities through its products / services and / or people priorities.

Investment Criteria

  • Equity contributions between $0.25M and $2.0M
  • A clear exit plan for our investment
  • All industries except gambling, drugs, defence and businesses adverse to human rights
  • Businesses with at least 12-months demonstrable progress.



Target Companies

  • The founder has an active Christian faith
  • The business is scalable and is (or will soon be) cash flow positive
  • The business strategy includes gospel priorities demonstrating Christ's love, grace and service.

Focused on Founders.


We seek to do you good.


We're people orientated. We’re looking for businesses that are able to excel financially while driving positive change in the lives of the people around them — their employees, their customers, their suppliers. They're truly people orientated and want to see good in others’ lives. This philosophy guides our investment approach.


At the end of the day, the early-stage company is the Founder, and that’s why we have a relational approach to get to know and walk with the founders we invest in. We seek to do them good.

A good company.


There’s this factory in Puerto Rico that makes high quality shoes.

This factory is geographically situated in a very high unemployment area, particularly between the ages of 15 – 24.


One of the Founder’s (Sophia) main drivers is to make a significant dent in that statistic, so she decides to turn her already-successful company into an asset for social good.


Sophia starts recruiting from this disenfranchised age bracket and makes a commitment to leave her new employees in a better place than when they joined her company. Instead of simply delegating menial roles in the shoe manufacturing factory, Sophia provides education and training to qualify them. She does this so extensively, some even start taking jobs outside her shoe factory — a milestone Sophia celebrates!

However, she notices that some of her team are in a detrimental spending cycle. When paychecks are handed out, entire pays are wasted on alcohol and gambling, usually on a Friday night. Despite this having little-to-no impact on her operations, Sophia sees how it impacts each individual financially and socially. She decides to extend her good work into the community with help from a local church. The company financially supports employees so they can attend this church’s Friday night youth events for free. Over time, this gathering has helped alleviate some of the spending spiral.


Sophia’s company is changing its community for good. She’s got a heart to help people live in a better place, and that heart is exercised through job creation, workplace training, and seeing some of the social cycle broken on Friday nights. All while making serious bottom line profit.



This is exactly the type of company GoodWork Investments is looking for.