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The Nigerian entrepreneur Luther Lawoyin’s fourth startup is a food cooperative platform, PricePally, through which several households can place a joint order of groceries, and benefit from lower prices. The total venture capital for African startups grew to $1.31 billion
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Just shy of a year ago, I sent an email to our global fund manager partners and to our direct portfolio CEOs titled “Only the Decisive Survive”. At that time, not many outside of China were concerned about COVID. However,
- By Will Poole
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Capria Ventures is a global investment firm leading, partnering with and funding the largest network of emerging market fund managers collaborating to deliver superior returns and scaled impact. Capria brings venture capital innovation and global best practices to local venture
- By Capria Ventures
- BlogsCapria Ventures, like many African VC firms, aims to advance enterprise-led economic development and foster technological innovation in the region, while also making returns on investment.
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As we approach the end of 2020, which many of us would prefer to just do over again, there are many things on my mind, but three stand out from the perspective of investing in emerging markets: embracing remote due-diligence
- By Will Poole
- BlogsThe pandemic has affected the financial sector as well. Fund managers are finding it hard to raise money for a first or final close; those who have dry powder face the challenge of allocating it wisely, and investors in funds
- By Capria Ventures
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As a global network of fund managers looking to continue their investing despite lockdowns and travel restrictions, we’ve all been exploring the best tools and processes for investing without travel — embracing remote due diligence. At the same time, the
- By Will Poole
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Throughout her life, and after two decades developing Latin America’s venture capital industry, Susana García-Robles has learned that women’s empowerment is not something you talk about — it’s something you do. Growing up in Argentina with two sisters raised by
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Languages : Spanish | English UNESCO Montevideo interviewed Susana Garcia-Robles, a leading woman in the field of global entrepreneurship who also participated in the colloquium “Entrepreneurship Ecosystems of Latin America and the Caribbean”, within the cycle “Science in Motion”, promoted
- By Capria Ventures
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I’v started a personal blog that I’ll post every quarter or so, sharing topical learnings and observations from my perch co-managing a $100M family of investment funds and a network of 20 fund managers who invest in more than 25
- By Will Poole
- BlogsCOVID introduced an unexpected variable in the investment scenario
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Face masks and frequent hand-washing are the new routine. But how can a company be safer in the new normal? “Good contractual hygiene,” says Joe Wallin, principal at Seattle-based Carney Badley Spellman. In particular, companies should be sure to understand
- By Capria Ventures
- BlogsEl reciente reporte 2019 de Acafi reveló que a diciembre de 2019 los 44 fondos vigentes de private equity y venture capital con financiamiento Corfo han invertido US$ 574,6 millones, 10% más que en el ejercicio previo.
- By Capria Ventures
- BlogsCapria Ventures operates a $100-million Capria Emerging Managers Fund with up to $20 million set aside for Southeast Asia. This fund also deploys into emerging markets across Asia, Africa and Latin America.
- By Capria Ventures
- BlogsTwice a month Capria holds COVID-19 workshop meetings with its fund managers.
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- BlogsThe impending shock to the business climate of India caused by COVID-19 is going to put startups across the country, into severe distress.
- By Will Poole
- BlogsThere are still a lot of unknowns corresponding with the long term, global health consequences, but COVID has already affected the way people are doing business.
- By Capria Ventures
- BlogsI was in when I began, there is no better way to fully understand the picture of how the world of overseas investing towards impact operates, and how one can contribute to its advancement.
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- BlogsThe firm has already backed a number of fund managers in Africa with some of those funds and there’s more to follow sooner rather than later.
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- BlogsWhat helps some successfully raise funds? What was remarkable about their pitch that it stood out from the lot?
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