As a venture capital investor in the Global South, we see a very different opportunity for generative AI (GenAI) than in the Global North. While the Global North investors focus primarily on the opportunity for GenAI to reduce costs through more automation, the big opportunity unlocked in the Global South…
Following last quarter’s email about our generally bullish outlook for 2023, my Partners and I would like to share what we’re seeing first-hand across the Global South. Will Poole: My two most recent trips have been to Brazil and India. I had not been back to Brazil since a few days before…
Not long after ChatGPT popularity reached high orbit and became seemingly unstoppable, companies began realizing that the massive data-sucking monsters created by OpenAI and others were happy to hoover up data offered from within corporate firewalls, and to train on that as well, making the resulting knowledge readily available for
It is no understatement to say the world is spinning faster – 1.59 seconds milliseconds in 24hrs one day last year. It sure feels faster. In the last two years, we saw record VC inflows and crazy valuations in 2021, the first need for inflation control in 40 years, the…
I asked ChatGPT: Please write me 1000 words on what kinds of companies will be needed to help retrain and empower knowledge workers whose jobs will be reduced or eliminated due to advances in generative AI like ChatGPT. ChatGPT’s verbatim answer [**with my not-too-snarky commentary inserted in brackets**]: The increasing…
Following up on my comments last quarter, the velocity of emerging market venture transactions have adjusted to what one might say is a corrected and sane pace – but the best deals are still commanding similar revenue multiples at the early-stage. More on that via our view from the field,…
Following up on my comments on headwinds from three directions last quarter, I have two dismal topics, and one uplifting topic to discuss: 1. our recent survey confirms that the well-publicized VC slowdown is in the emerging Global South in addition to the North, 2. inflation risks in the USA…
Just shy of two years ago, Capria partners sounded the alarm bell loudly – declaring that only the decisive will survive – in response to the growing pandemic. Investors and CEOs around the globe worked together to cut costs, find new sources of revenue, get bridge rounds done, etc. As…
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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.
