Founded in 2017, Happiness Capital is a global venture capital firm based in Hong Kong, China. Its mission is to make the world a happier place by investing in startups and VC funds that create innovations for making people happy around the world. Happiness Capital considers financial return and “Happiness Return” equally important from their portfolio companies.
It has established investment hubs in U.S., Europe, Israel and China for sourcing the best investments worldwide. Their current investments focus on innovations in Food, Health, Trust, Climate Change and Reduced Inequalities. Happiness Capital encourages entrepreneurs to innovate new products and services that can improve the “Happiness Return” for different stakeholders. Their focused areas are well-aligned with United Nation’s Sustainability Development Goals.
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Publication on Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
The article Can Venture Capital Be Optimized for Happiness? co-written by Happiness Capital was published in June 2024 on Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR).The article introduced the “Happiness Return Framework”, which is a metric to measure how investments can be used to begin to systematically incorporate the happiness and well-being of all stakeholders into investment decisions.
Publication on The Journal of Impact & ESG Investing
The paper Investing in Happiness: A Venture Capital Assessment Framework co-written by Happiness Capital was published in mid-August by The Journal of Impact & ESG Investing, a global professional and technical journal based in the US. It presents the “Happiness Return Framework” as a credible way for measuring the happiness generated by venture investments for the major stakeholders of the portfolio companies.