Elizabeth Funk

Business leader, Business mentor, Change agent, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Parent, Philanthropist, Project manager, Real estate professional, Single, Social entrepreneur, World traveler

Elizabeth Funk is founder and CEO of Dignity Capital, a collection of Impact Investing funds and projects. She is the Senior General Partner at Dev Equity www.devequity.com an innovative fund providing for-profit venture-style investment funding to social enterprises in Latin America. Elizabeth was one of the early pioneers in impact investing. She created the Dignity Fund in 2004, one of the first for-profit funds mobilizing investment capital for the Microfinance industry. Elizabeth was one of the earliest employees of Yahoo!, the founder of Yahoo! Shopping, and was a Product Manager for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office. Elizabeth graduated from Stanford University with honors Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar.

I am currently working on a way to make a radical impact on the homelessness crisis in California. It's simply unacceptable. We're obviously not doing something right. I've spent the pandemic doing a deep dive into the situation and have partnered with other passionate CEOs and business leaders to reimagine homelessness solutions at scale.