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…
En solo dos años, la inteligencia artificial (IA) pasó de ser un experimento interesante a convertirse en una capacidad crítica para los negocios. Sin embargo, gran parte de la conversación dominante sigue asumiendo infraestructura relativamente estable, datos limpios y talento abundante. Esa suposición se rompe rápidamente en los mercados emergentes….
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…
The semiconductor ecosystem is a $793B market that grew 21% in 2025; it underpins everything in modern IoT systems, from AI infrastructure and data centers to electric vehicles, 5G networks, and consumer electronics. Yet the industry remains bottlenecked by constraints that have persisted even as chip design races ahead. Chip…
Will Poole likes to joke that he picked the wrong time to leave Microsoft. It was 2008, the global financial crisis was beginning to bite, and the world’s most profitable business, Windows, was the last thing anyone would walk away from. But Poole had seen this cycle before. Downturns, he…
El capital de riesgo en Latinoamérica atraviesa un momento de redefinición. Después del boom de 2020 a 2022, los fondos y emprendedores enfrentan una realidad más compleja: rondas más exigentes, contracción del fundraising, menor disponibilidad de capital extranjero y una presión creciente por demostrar eficiencia y rentabilidad. Las startups jóvenes,…
In the latest episode of Outside of the Classroom, Capria Managing Partner, Susana Garcia-Robles shares insights from a career dedicated to helping entrepreneurs across the Global South. From early roles in development banking in Argentina to influential work in Washington, New York, and now across Latin America, the Middle East,…
When Moniepoint raised $110 million in October 2024 to become a unicorn, not only its early investors made money from selling shares to new investors. At least two senior employees also sold part of their shares in the round, making $20,000 and $850,000 (₦1.3 billion), respectively, according to documents seen…
El auge de la inteligencia artificial ha llevado al desarrollo de múltiples startups que se basan en modelos de lenguaje de gran tamaño (LLM). En este contexto, se ha generado un intenso debate sobre si las empresas que simplemente construyen «wrappers» alrededor de estos modelos pueden sostenerse a largo plazo…
SeamlessHR raised a new round from the Gates Foundation and Helios Digital Ventures. The company raised its $10 million series A in 2022. According to two sources familiar with the company’s operations, the company plans to use the new funding to drive its expansion across Africa, which may include acquisitions….
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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.
