Africa is the second-fastest-growing region in the world after Asia and home to six of the fastest-growing economies worldwide. According to AVCA, the total number of VC deals in Africa hit a six-year record high with a total of 139 VC deals worth USD1.4 billion in 2019 alone. Read the complete article on Private Equity Wire > […]
Category: Global Trends in Impact Investing
Unitus Ventures plans to step up investments in Indian job-tech firms
Early-stage venture fund Unitus Ventures is scouting to invest more in job-tech firms and at least for the next five years, they will continue to invest more in this vertical. India’s jobs crisis and aspiration to shift from informal to formal work is creating a big opportunity for new entrepreneurs and making it a key investment theme, Surya […]
A story of resilience: How has the LatAm Venture Capital ecosystem grown?
During the last five years, I have been working with the LatAm ecosystem both as an insider and as an outsider. This has provided me with insights about the spectacular evolution of the venture capital ecosystem in the region and how we got to the massive explosion of investments in the first place! To better dimension the opportunity both […]
Africa-focused VC firm Atlantica Ventures raising $50m fund for seed-onwards tech investments
Africa-focused venture capital (VC) firm Atlantica Ventures is raising a US$50 million fund that will invest in tech and tech-enabled businesses from seed stage onwards. Founded in 2019 by Aniko Szigetvari and Ik Kanu, who have previously worked for the likes of IFC, Helios and Convergence and have extensive angel investing experience, Atlantica […]
Fondo internacional de venture capital Capria elige a Chile como hub para América Latina
“La oportunidad llama y hay que tomarla”. Eso dice la senior partner de Capria Venture, Susana García-Robles, al explicar la decisión de abrir una oficina para América Latina, siendo Santiago su sede. Con más de 20 años de experiencia en el Banco Interamericano del Desarrollo, la ejecutiva es parte del vehículo, que en su red global tiene […]
Startups in Africa confront the pandemic
The Nigerian entrepreneur Luther Lawoyin's fourth startup is a food cooperative platform, PricePally, through which several households can place a joint order of groceries, and benefit from lower prices. The total venture capital for African startups grew to $1.31 billion (€1.08 billion) in 2020, up from $1.27 billion in 2019, according to […]
California and business continuity
Just shy of a year ago, I sent an email to our global fund manager partners and to our direct portfolio CEOs titled “Only the Decisive Survive”. At that time, not many outside of China were concerned about COVID. However, I was obsessed. Hearing stories from fund manager friends with operations in China, I knew things were worse than what the […]
Small Foundation invests in Capria Ventures to boost sustainable innovation in Africa
Capria Ventures is a global investment firm leading, partnering with and funding the largest network of emerging market fund managers collaborating to deliver superior returns and scaled impact. Capria brings venture capital innovation and global best practices to local venture capital, private equity and innovative debt funds, managed by local […]
Meet the Investor: Eunice Wambui, Capria Ventures
The way it strives to do all this, however, is slightly different. Instead of making direct investments in entrepreneurs, Capria Ventures instead mostly invests in emerging market fund managers, collaborating to deliver superior returns and scaled impact. It does also do warehouse investments as well. “Capria was born from the belief that […]
Africa accelerating
Our collective world has gone through rapid change since we set out on the journey we did 4 years ago, but boy did 2020 keep us on our toes! Our confidence that world-class companies are being built in Africa has entered a new phase as we witness the scale potential of our most successful portfolio companies. Rewind to 2017 and a handful of […]
Angel Ventures invierte en Done Properly a través del Fondo de la Alianza del Pacífico AVPAF II
Done Properly concluyó con éxito su ronda de inversión con la participación de Angel Ventures y Endurance Investments. La compañía busca el escalamiento industrial de su tecnología para poder abastecer la demanda global que tienen las empresas líderes de alimentos en el mundo. En noviembre de 2020, Done Properly fue reconocida como la empresa […]
Capria Ventures invests USD $2 Mn in Angel Ventures Pacific Alliance Fund to boost Innovation in emerging markets
Capria completed three investments in LATAM in under a year, including its co-investment in Argentina-based Agrofy and its LP investment in Brazil-based SP Ventures. Angel Ventures will focus on addressing gaps in financial inclusion, food security and access to education and information in the Pacific Alliance region. Seattle, January 2021: […]
