Advancing the next generation of local impact fund managers in emerging markets
What We Do
We partner with fund managers in emerging markets who deploy early-stage or early-growth capital to promising start-ups as well as small and growing businesses (SGBs).
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INVESTMENT
We provide capital tailored to meet the needs of fund managers investing in high-growth emerging markets of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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NETWORK
We bring together and facilitate engagement across all Network members who deeply collaborate to achieve superior returns.
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COLLABORATION
Consider us part of your extended team. We provide in-depth, strategic, and customized services designed to enhance your performance and scale your investment firm.
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Our Affiliations
Capria is part of a diverse global community of organizations interested in deepening their engagement with the impact investment industry. Here are some of our prominent partnerships:
If you are a fund manager in an emerging market, we'd love to learn more about your team and investment strategy. We evaluate funds on an ongoing basis.
Selected funds will receive an investment, access to the Capria Network, and benefit from deeply collaborating directly with the Capria team.
About Us
We have deep experience securing, deploying, and returning capital with some of the world’s most prominent individual and institutional investors backing us.
Dave Richards
Managing Partner – “The Operator”
Will Poole
Managing Partner – “The Scaler”
Jack Knellinger
Principal – “The Pioneer”
DAN KRANZLER
Venture Partner – “The Communicator”
We believe in investment strategies that produce both superior financial returns and scaled impact. Local professional investing teams are the key to unlocking both.
Recent Updates
Information, tips, and industry insight on impact investing and fund management.
Venture Capitalists Beware: Here’s What Not To Share With Potential LPs (Forbes)
Quality limited partners will respect your boundaries on what you don’t share prior to their commitment to enter full due diligence on your fund. Recently, in a first meeting with an institutional LP, I was asked “How are you exactly allocating the fund’s carry amongst the team?” I responded, “We would be happy to share important […]
18 Impact Investing Trends You Haven’t Seen Before And 1 You Have (Forbes)
Below are 19 trends in the impact investing world that are most likely unknown to you, because they are developing in pockets and corners of the arena where most people don’t have visibility. One or two of these may be familiar to readers who work in the space. One thing is generally recognized. Impact investing […]
IFC to Invest in Capria Fund to Address the $1 Trillion Global “Missing Middle” Investment Opportunity
IFC makes second investment in Capria’s new “network fund” to invest in and provide support to more local fund managers in emerging markets. Seattle, Washington, July 31, 2018 — International Finance Corporation (IFC), the for-profit investment arm of the World Bank, has published its intent to invest up to $13M in Capria Fund, a new $100 million […]
Saved by a ‘SAFE’: Three Lessons from a Broken Impact Investing Deal (Next Billion)
We don’t like SAFEs, but this one saved us. Many in the tech investment sector are familiar with the acronym SAFE. It refers to the “Simple Agreement for Future Equity,” and was first coined by the seed-stage accelerator, YCombinator (YC). SAFE instruments have become popular with early-stage founders in Silicon Valley, and for good reason. […]
Capria Announces Partnership with Australian Government to Expand Early-Stage Investing in Southeast Asia
Targeted support to back local fund managers providing growth capital for fast-growing young businesses July 09, 2018. Seattle, Washington. Capria, a global investment firm advancing the next generation of impact fund managers in emerging markets, today announced a partnership with the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to expand Capria’s global investment platform […]
Policies to Promote Impact Investing in Chile
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with President Sebastián Piñera of Chile who was interested in hearing a global perspective on impact investing and discussing ideas that Chile could consider to promote both foreign and domestic impact investing. President Piñera was recently elected to his second term, so he is no stranger to […]
Why Silicon Valley’s Money Can’t Solve Africa’s Tech Problems (Wired)
Parachute investing is a problem. If you’re investing in early-stage companies from an airplane, you should consider philanthropy. When Mark Zuckerberg went to Kenya and Nigeria in 2016, he proclaimed that the future would be built in Africa. That same year, Y-Combinator accepted startups with African roots for its much sought-after accelerator program. But is […]
How Social Entrepreneurs Begin To Measure Impact (Forbes)
This is the first in a series of articles about impact measurement for social entrepreneurs. There are two keys to becoming a good social entrepreneur. Intentionality, that is intending to have a positive social impact rather than merely delivering one incidentally, is how you become a social entrepreneur. Accountability, measuring the impact, is how you […]
Capria Network’s Unitus Ventures invests in i3 Systems, An AI-Powered Insure-tech Platform
Aims to facilitate Mediclaim reimbursements in 1hr and process underwriting of 1 million insurance policies by March 2019 7 May 2018, Bengaluru. Mumbai-based i3 Systems, which is transforming India’s health insurance industry with its digital solutions and AI products for automation of medical underwriting and claims, today announced that it has raised USD $1 million […]
Impact Action and Opportunities in Southeast Asia
Global impact investment firm Capria is doubling down on its efforts to advance local fund managers in South and Southeast Asia. Capria’s goal is to invest in 2-3 funds in Southeast Asia and 1-2 additional funds in India, where it already operates the leading early-stage venture fund Unitus Ventures. Dave Richards, Capria Co-Founder and Managing […]
Capria Network’s Unitus Ventures Raises INR 100 Crore Towards First Close of Fund II
30 April 2018, Bengaluru. Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund), India’s leading impact venture fund investing in startups innovating for the masses, today announced that it has raised INR100 crore towards first close of its INR300 crore ($46 million) second fund. Prominent investors include Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Bill Gates, Hemendra Kothari, Ajay Parekh, Pradeep Singh, Pramod […]
Capria Network’s EdgeGrowth Invests in Giraffe – A Game Changer in the Recruitment Industry (VentureBurn)
SA startup Giraffe announced today that it has closed a second funding round, with a lead investor participating in the round revealing that its own share of the contribution was valued at “between R10-million and R20-million”. In a press release today the startup, which runs a web platform that matches job seekers with job placements, said it had closed a second […]
