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What We Do
Flow invests in and incubates for-profit social enterprise start-ups.
Social enterprises are companies with social goals. Like all for-profit companies. they sell products or services in exchange for revenues, which results in profits. Unlike for-profit companies, social enterprise have a second mission of creating social values by providing socially beneficial products, or by hiring or serving disadvantaged groups.
Social enterprises try to solve social problems with business solutions.
Grameen Bank, founded by the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, is a good example.
While there are many social ventures in Europe and the US, they are not common in Asia. Flow wants to create a social enterprise sector in Asian countries.
Once the new sector emerges, it can work with governments, for-profit companies, and NGOs to solve social problems.
Flow believes that this self-sustainable sector can attract otherwise submerged philanthropic dollars and talents. Like water, Flow wants to bring those resources onto the surface.
To create such a sector, Flow will build a few social enterprise of its own. In addition, it plans to invest in and incubates other people’s start-ups.
Social enterprises are companies with social goals. Like all for-profit companies. they sell products or services in exchange for revenues, which results in profits. Unlike for-profit companies, social enterprise have a second mission of creating social values by providing socially beneficial products, or by hiring or serving disadvantaged groups.
Social enterprises try to solve social problems with business solutions.
Grameen Bank, founded by the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, is a good example.
Our Vision
Once the new sector emerges, it can work with governments, for-profit companies, and NGOs to solve social problems.
Flow believes that this self-sustainable sector can attract otherwise submerged philanthropic dollars and talents. Like water, Flow wants to bring those resources onto the surface.
Our Mission