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Paarul Dudeja

Managing Partner at Working Capital Fund

Washington, District of Columbia

Overview 

Paarul Dudeja is a Partner at Working Capital Fund, focusing on impact investing to build equitable and sustainable supply chains. With a background in hedge funds and private equity, Dudeja has held significant roles at organizations like Accion and the International Finance Corporation. Dudeja's career highlights include founding Zuna Asset Management and being a Managing Partner at Working Capital Fund, demonstrating expertise in financial modeling and investments in sectors like FinTech and Human Capital/HRTech.

Work Experience 

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Working Capital Fund

  • Managing Partner

    2020 - Current

    Working Capital Fund is a venture capital firm investing in technology to reduce inequality and build responsible, sustainable global supply chains. It was incubated 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.

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Virohan Institute of Allied Health & Management Sciences

  • Founding member, Advisor

    2016

    Virohan Institute is a social enterprise that provides technical skill training and educates future healthcare workers. The Institute also offers professional development programs for doctors. The Institute works with the Indian Government through its National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) programs in its objective to train 150 million people. http://virohan.com/

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Accion

  • Director - Investments, Accion Venture Lab

    2017 - 2020

    Venture Lab is Accion's seed-stage investment fund, making equity investments and providing management support to financial technology start ups around the world.

Accion Serving San Diego is a local microlender.

Raised $300,000.00 from Wells Fargo.

us.accion.org
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IFC - International Finance Corporation

  • Investment Officer

    2013 - 2016

    IFC, through its debt and equity investments in private and public companies, enables sustainable growth and addresses development challenges. In this role, I made market-return generating impact investments. As transaction lead, I led the entire investment process from evaluation, due diligence, structuring, negotiations to closing for a committed deal volume of over $400 million in South Asia. I also actively managed a portfolio of investments of over $350 million in financial institutions and related entities. This included enabling value addition programs to enhance returns, manage risk and measure impact. Emphasis was placed in implementing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards to assist portfolio companies in achieving their goals.

IFC's Venture Capital group invests in ventures and growth stage companies.

ifc.org

Zuna Asset Management

  • Founder and Portfolio Manager

    2011 - 2012

    Zuna Asset Management is a start-up global equities investment fund that seeks to preserve capital while maximizing absolute returns over an extended period of time.

Vinik Asset Management, LLP

  • Investment Professional

    2006 - 2010

    Jeff Vinik, former manager of Fidelity’s Magellan Fund, founded this over US $8 billion hedge fund. Track record of consistently generating significant alpha over benchmark.

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Lehman Brothers

  • Investment Banking Division, Analyst

    2003 - 2004

    Equity, debt, merger and acquisition transactions.

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Standard & Poor's

  • Corporate Valuation Consulting, Associate

    2001 - 2003

S&P Global is a market intelligence company that provides financial information and data analytics services.

Raised $750,000,000.00.

spglobal.com

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