Within the last decade, Africa has emerged as a dynamic frontier for innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation. With a growing population, increasing mobile penetration, and an expanding pool of young, tech-savvy talent, the continent presents an attractive destination for venture capital investment. According to reports, the African Venture Capital market will…
Magma, a B2B industrial solutions provider, has raised $5 million in a round led by Capria Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Accion Venture Lab, and WEH Ventures. The funds will boost core factory offerings, backward integration, and tech investments as Magma targets rapid revenue growth and sector expansion. This…
Ahmedabad, India — April 16, 2025 — Magma, a leading B2B industrial solutions provider, has successfully closed a $5Mn Series A funding round led by Capria Ventures. The funding round comprises a mix of equity and debt financing. The round also saw participation from existing backers General Catalyst, Accion Venture…
India’s $36 billion industrial materials industry is the unsung enabler of sectors like construction, packaging, textiles, and agriculture — powering everything from adhesives in tile manufacturing to coatings in packaging materials. As industrial demand accelerates and global players look beyond China, India’s chemical manufacturers are well-positioned to expand their international…
Surya Mantha, Managing Partner at Capria Ventures, joined an expert panel at #ETEntrepreneurSummit 2025 alongside Vivekananda Pani (Reverie Language Technologies), Ankit Solanki (Clear), Anirudh A. Damani (Artha Venture Fund), and Madhusudan Shekar (Google Cloud) to explore how AI is transforming the startup landscape. Moderated by journalist, Soumik Ghosh, the panel…
When Vietnam-based agritech firm TechCoop dropped news of its US$70 million series A raise in February, eyebrows went up — after all, peers like eFishery and TaniHub hit rough waters recently. But investors appear to be rallying behind the three-year-old startup, which was founded in 2022 by Hao Diep, a…
PEGN explica o processo de encerramento de operações das startups e prestação de contas com investidores. Empreendedores que passaram por isso dão dicas e conselhos Nos últimos meses, startups como Mercado Diferente, Plure e Apprenty anunciaram o fim de suas operações. O mercado de inovação envolve riscos e, em um cenário de capital…
With a billion new consumers and transformative local solutions, emerging markets demand investors to pair bold ambition with cultural fluency to unlock their vast potential and shape global progress. Emerging markets—spanning India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa—represent the next frontier of global investment. With over a billion new consumers,…
Conversations on AI startups building wrappers on foundational models have been ongoing for the past few years. The debate about the value of startups centred on these wrappers is more complicated than it initially appears, with no conclusive verdict reached so far. In the recent Google Cloud report titled ‘Future…
VCs look to invest in Indian AI startups that offer nuanced solutions that big-tech companies cannot deliver. Sridhar Vembu, former CEO of Zoho Corp, recently highlighted the need to stop glorifying English in India’s R&D ecosystem. “There is a lot of R&D talent in India if we get rid of…
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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.
