From hands-on AI projects to a full-time engineering career, Praful John reflects on how the Capria Fellowship helped him build practical experience, confidence and the skills to take the next step. Sometimes, the most important career opportunities do more than help you build technical skills. They give you the confidence,…
AI has changed from a software business to an infrastructure business. That changes how the industry is financed and where the risk accumulates. For thirty years, big tech proved it did not need debt. Microsoft issued its first corporate bond in 2009. Google in 2011. Meta in 2022. These were…
India’s robotics ecosystem is advancing rapidly, but its biggest bottleneck remains the precision manufacturing layer beneath the AI. In 2000, a Bengaluru company built a robotic arm where every joint was independently intelligent and networked. It was a feature that would not become a standard in collaborative robots globally for…
Every technological revolution creates new infrastructure. The greatest economic value, however, is often created by entrepreneurs who adapt that infrastructure to the realities of the markets. This is a story that has defined Latin America’s innovation journey for decades. A handful of AI companies now account for an extraordinary share…
On a 3-week tour of Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Mexico City, as I listened to founders, LPs, fund managers, and family offices across the region, I kept coming back to one conclusion: Latin America does not need to become Silicon Valley. And perhaps the biggest mistake we make is…
Inside Capria’s approach to building a successful AI-native investment process. When Capria decided to become an AI-native fund in 2023, we made one commitment above everything else: AI would adapt to us, not the other way around. We would never outsource our thinking to it, let it reshape our thesis,…
The Playbook behind legendary Investors How does one person — investing alone, with no analyst team — repeatedly back Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Figma before most institutional firms did? Elad Gil’s track record is comparable to the best venture funds of the last decade, built with no partners, no investment…
When that changes, entirely new categories open up — healthcare navigation, companionship, consultative sales, personal assistance, financial guidance. Six dimensions separate where Voice AI stands today from where it needs to go. Here is an honest map of each one. Last month, I made a simple mistake. Booked two hotel…
Behind Latin America’s digital economy lies an infrastructure that still operates in the analog era. A new wave of startups is using AI to rebuild it from the ground up. Latin America’s next generation of startups will be different from the last. The first wave of venture-backed innovation in the…
For the 3M+ SMEs in Egypt operating offline, e-commerce has long felt out of reach. The challenges are basic and structural: unreliable delivery, high return rates, cash-on-delivery constraints, and limited access to working capital. When Mohamed Mossaad and Enas Siam set out to build Flextock, their aim was to remove…
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Unitus Ventures, a leading venture capital firm in India, is joining forces with its US affiliate Capria Ventures, a Global South specialist, to operate with a unified global strategy under a single brand, Capria Ventures.
