Early in her career Capria’s Susana Garcia-Robles was on the forefront of developing the private equity and venture capital markets in Latin America and the Caribbean while working with the Inter-American Development Bank. She recalls skeptical governments asking—so often she lost count—“[Is] innovation, entrepreneurship, and venture capital […]
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Southeast Asia has several cowboy VCs, says Capria Ventures’s Dave Richards
Southeast Asia is no American Wild West, but it does feel a little like it sometimes, says fund manager Capria Ventures’s managing partner Dave Richards. Two years after announcing its plans to invest in two to three funds in Southeast Asia, Capria finally marked its debut investment in venture debt firm Genesis Alternative Ventures this […]
Capria Fund Invests in India’s Arkam Ventures, a INR 700 Cr technology fund
Seattle, Washington. June 8, 2020 Capria has invested in Arkam Ventures, an early stage technology fund based out of Bangalore, India. As a part of this investment, Arkam Ventures has joined Capria Network, world’s largest network of emerging market fund managers collaborating to deliver superior returns and scaled impact. Capria’s Second Venture […]
The “Fund Manager’s Fund” filling the missing middle has forked out a fresh USD $8Mn for funders in emerging markets
The “Fund Manager’s Fund”, Capria, which claims to be the largest network of emerging market fund managers, has announced that it would be investing up to USD $8 Mn in specific countries in emerging markets, including African countries like Uganda, Senegal, Côte d’Ivore, Tanzania and Ethiopia. When Capria first launched in 2015, it […]
How Latin American entrepreneurs are changing the region, one business at a time
Latin America’s growing startup ecosystem stands out because of how the region is using the combination of technology and business to build a foundation for a future that is better than what countries in this region have historically seen. International VCs like Sequoia Capital, Capria Network, Naspers and Didi Chuxing are heavily investing in […]
Capria bets on Chile after social outbreak: “The fact is that the country will survive”
Its founder, Will Poole, says the company will manage USD $ 1 billion worldwide. In November, Will Poole, one of the founders of the international social impact investment accelerator Capria, traveled to our country to encourage investment in venture capital and meet with his Chilean partners, including LarrainVial. Accompanied by the […]
Managing mission drift and driving impact in emerging markets: a roadmap
Impact drift challenges nearly all impact funds. When a fund stops delivering impact, or drifts from its intended impact, investors grow wary. It’s especially daunting for first-time fund managers in emerging markets where impact drift is less a matter of “if” but “when.” Fund managers with a roadmap for proactively managing evolving impact […]
Capria to invest from new USD $100M fund with emerging market managers to capitalize on highest growth economies
22nd October 2019, Seattle: Capria, the largest network of emerging market fund managers, recently announced it would be investing another USD $15M in emerging markets (EMs - Asia, Africa & Latin America). As a global investor with a uniquely collaborative network of partners, Capria’s efforts will focus on supporting local fund managers to […]
The “Advancer” takes impact to the next level
Uma Sekar, Director, Impact & ESG, Capria has some lessons for other players in the impact investing space. Uma leads the impact investment strategy implementation and framework development at Capria and Unitus Ventures. She believes aligning a CEO’s long-term vision to impact through integration as a part of their business strategy, is […]
Limited no more – how the ‘Abraaj Effect’ is rewriting the role of LPs and GPs against a new investment paradigm
In part 1: https://2021.capria.vc/dsa of this two-part series, we explored the changing dynamics between Limited Partners (LPs), private fund investors, and General Partners (GPs), private fund managers, in an investment fund. In part 2, we look at how a significant event has resulted into LPs driving accountability from GPs, and GPs responding […]
Capria is Among First Adopters of Operating Principles for Impact Management
Capria and 59 other investors commit to managing USD $350B assets in line with the recently launched Operating Principles for Impact Management 12th April 2019, Seattle, WA: Capria, a global investment firm leading the largest network of fund managers collaborating to deliver superior returns in emerging and frontier markets, announced that it […]
Scaling Impact while enhancing financial returns via Impact Management – Part I
Impact investing has solidified itself into a global industry of exponential growth since the concept emerged in 2007. According to GIIN's recent "Sizing the Impact Investment Market" report, which collected data from over 1,340 impact investors, the market is now just over half a trillion dollars US worldwide. Impact continues to build an […]
