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.
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 […]
Meet the Investor: Steven Grin, Lateral Capital (Disrupt Africa)
Steven Grin has been angel investing in Africa since 2013, and now he is significantly scaling up his interests through his VC firm Lateral Capital. Grin spent the first half of his career back home in the United States (US) developing real estate, energy and infrastructure projects, but the last decade has been focused on […]
Why management fee for emerging-market VC funds should be predictable (VCCircle)
The traditional private equity-birthed model for management fees does not align interests for limited partners (LPs) and general partners (GPs) for emerging market venture capital and early-growth PE funds that are under $100 million. As a global emerging market fund investor, we evaluate more than 200 VC/PE fund proposals per year across Africa, Latin America, […]
Learnings from FLII – Latin America Impact Investing Forum Building a “GLOCAL” community
FLII (“Fondo Latino de Inversión de Impacto”) has become a definitive event for impact fund managers, entrepreneurs and investors in Latin America. With over 400 attendees every year, the event is pivotal to everyone interested in impact investing. Representatives from all over Latin America were joined by participants from North America and Europe, all coming […]
A new paradigm for scaling early stage impact investing in South Africa (VentureBurn)
The world is facing diminishing natural resources, a growing population and an increasing economic inequality. But impact investing can help solve these issues. Impact investing seeks to create both a financial return, alongside a positive social or environmental impact. As governments and civil society struggle to achieve the UN’s Social Development Goals (SDGs), the trillions of […]
Capria Network’s Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund) invests in Predible Health – AI Powered Cancer Radiology Platform
Predible Health aims to do about ~500 million scans by December 2020 to bring unmatched accuracy to diagnosis and treatment of these cancers 1 March 2018, Bengaluru. Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund), India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early-stage startups innovating for the masses, today announced an investment in Predible Health, an AI powered cancer radiology […]
Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund) eyes first close of $46m second fund in few weeks (DealStreetAsia)
Unitus invested in 23 companies from its first fund, and has already committed to six more startups from its second fund taking the warehousing route. Seattle and Bengaluru-based early-stage investor Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund) is set to make the first close of its second fund at Rs 100 crore ($15.4 million) in the next few weeks. […]
