August 10, 2023 Originally published on the VC Include blog. Good Scout Capital is a 2023 VC Include Fellow for Impact Fund I Managers. Karlo Marcelo and Rupal Patel first met in the early 2000s, while working as student activists and campus leaders at University… Read More »How the Midwest, Maize and Blue, and Economic Mobility Form the Foundation of Good Scout’s Worldview
Originally published February 10, 2023, in The Confluence Philanthropy Blog. By Rupal Patel There is no denying that American capitalism has built the modern world. Consider that 7 out of the top 10 public companies in the world are U.S. companies, while out of the top… Read More »Capitalism’s Better Angels Have Emerged to Revive the American Dream
As we reflect on the close of Women’s History Futures[!] Month, Good Scout Capital (GSC) recently convened a group of emerging female BIPOC fund managers focused on a future of capital markets that fully includes women and leverages their unique talents and perspectives to generate… Read More »What It’s Like to be Women Emerging Fund Managers in 2022
Good Scout Capital (GSC) recently sat down with leaders from three organizations focused on the future of cooperative economics to discuss the outlook of the sector and specific ways that policy can help advance GSC’s vision for inclusive capitalism that prioritizes worker ownership. These conversations… Read More »How Can Policy Advance Worker Ownership?
An interview with our founders With the launch of our new website, we thought it was time to check in with our two founders, Rupal Patel and Karlo Marcelo. The following comments explore the driving motivations behind Good Scout Capital and what we think is… Read More »Risk Built the United States. It’s Time to Bring Risk to Social Impact Investing
Preserving the American Dream Requires a Focus on the ‘Social’ of ESG Investing Capitalism in America is broken. The gaps between rich and poor are deepening as the labor market struggles to remain innovative in the face of a changing global economic landscape. On the… Read More »The Market Can Fix American Capitalism
The Middle Class Needs Enterprise Investment to Achieve the American Dream Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, the international economy has moved steadily towards globalization in one form or another. From the late 1970s onwards, globalization became an official doctrine in Western countries as… Read More »Inclusive Capitalism Is the Next Trend in ESG Investing