Early in her career Capria’s Susana Garcia-Robles was on the forefront of developing the private equity and venture capital markets in Latin America and the Caribbean while working with the Inter-American Development Bank. She recalls skeptical governments asking—so often she lost count—“[Is] innovation, entrepreneurship, and venture capital […]
Category: Impact Investing
Southeast Asia has several cowboy VCs, says Capria Ventures’s Dave Richards
Southeast Asia is no American Wild West, but it does feel a little like it sometimes, says fund manager Capria Ventures’s managing partner Dave Richards. Two years after announcing its plans to invest in two to three funds in Southeast Asia, Capria finally marked its debut investment in venture debt firm Genesis Alternative Ventures this […]
Managing mission drift and driving impact in emerging markets: a roadmap
Impact drift challenges nearly all impact funds. When a fund stops delivering impact, or drifts from its intended impact, investors grow wary. It’s especially daunting for first-time fund managers in emerging markets where impact drift is less a matter of “if” but “when.” Fund managers with a roadmap for proactively managing evolving impact […]
Capria is Among First Adopters of IFC’s New Impact Principles
Capria and 59 other investors commit to managing USD $350B assets in line with the recently launched Operating Principles for Impact Management 12th April 2019, Seattle, WA: Capria, a global investment firm leading the largest network of fund managers collaborating to deliver superior returns in emerging and frontier markets, announced that it […]
Scaling Impact while enhancing financial returns via Impact Management – Part I
Impact investing has solidified itself into a global industry of exponential growth since the concept emerged in 2007. According to GIIN's recent "Sizing the Impact Investment Market" report, which collected data from over 1,340 impact investors, the market is now just over half a trillion dollars US worldwide. Impact continues to build an […]
