On a recent Spring day in Seattle, five budding fund managers raised a glass in the upstairs private dining room of a bustling, 300-seat Asian fusion restaurant. Over plates of family style chicken satay and baby bok choy, they swapped stories from the month-long boot camp they had just completed. The beginner venture capitalists, who hail from […]
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Inside the Bill Gates-backed Accelerator that’s training the Next Generation of Venture Capitalists
In an airy converted furniture store in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, five novice impact fund managers from Zimbabwe, Guatemala and the Netherlands are rehearsing the sales pitches they’ll make the next day to 60 mostly institutional investors, representing $10 billion in capital. (Also see more recent Forbes article "This $100M Fund Is […]
Who is applying to Capria Accelerator?
Here are some statistics on applications for both Cohort 1 and Cohort 2, which provide a snapshot of our applicant pool. The infographics show the percentage of Capria applicants targeting the regions, sectors, and fund sizes shown below. We have also shown the applicants' fundraising status and the gender breakdown, again by percentage of Capria […]
New Research Shows Expansion of Sidecar Funds for Accelerators
Our sister company, Unitus Seed Fund, recently released research results from a "Global Best Practices" survey of incubators and accelerators. They found that the concept of creating sidecar investment funds to invest in the best companies in each cohort is catching on faster than expected, with 90% of the accelerators reporting that they have […]
What is Impact?
What does "Impact" mean in the context of the Capria Accelerator? The term “impact investing” has been around for about 10 years. Since the field is still young, impact is a broadly used term, with different meanings to different people. There are many types of impact investors including some with specific definitions such as: Improving […]
