WorkerTech I

The challenge

Across the UK, two million people earn below the Real Living Wage and millions more are in low-paid or insecure work with little control over their hours, income or progression. [1]

While government and employer policies have focused on minimum standards, there remains a critical gap in creating roles that are secure, fairly paid, and fulfilling. Workers from low-income backgrounds are often excluded from innovation and entrepreneurship, lacking access to the networks and capital needed to get started.

The result is a cycle of inequality - workers face rising insecurity while innovation bypasses their needs. Breaking this cycle requires investment in ventures that can reshape the future of work, building fairer systems that improve pay, power, prospects and wellbeing for those most affected.

Our approach

By backing early-stage ventures that deliver improved tools and services for workers, Resolution Ventures aims to reshape the system of work from the ground up. It aligns with our commitment to support pioneering managers who combine deep social insight with commercial discipline, while contributing to our efforts to build an ecosystem that scales innovative ways to tackle entrenched inequalities.

The team’s focus on founders with lived experience ensures innovation is rooted in the realities of those most affected by work insecurity, driving change from within the system. This approach has the potential to influence employers, shape policy and ultimately improve financial resilience and wellbeing for millions of workers.

The Fund

Resolution Ventures is a first-time fund launched in collaboration with the Resolution Foundation, a key partnership that provides access to leading research on the UK labour market and strengthens the fund’s ability to identify ventures with meaningful impact. Through early-stage, impact-first investment, the fund supports technology-driven solutions that seek to improve individual livelihoods while influencing employer practices and public policy.

Over the life of the fund, it aims to help more than one million workers achieve better outcomes, such as securing a new job, receiving a pay increase, re-entering education or training, improving working conditions or experiencing a measurable boost in wellbeing.

• Fund size

  £6.7 million first close, with a £9m final close target

• Better Society Capital commitment

  £1 million