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 realities of the pandemic have caused many in our network to re-look at their investment […]
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AQ top 5 champions of gender equality: Susana García-Robles
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 their mother and grandmother, “nobody ever told me there was such a thing as advocacy […]
Entrevista: América Latina liderará el emprendimiento femenino en el mundo
Languages : Spanish | EnglishUNESCO 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 CILAC. In this note, she relates where the regional […]
Women investors: interview with Susana Garcia-Robles
COVID introduced an unexpected variable in the investment scenario Many entrepreneurs had to rethink their goals or directly look for new ideas. Knowing the investors and looking at the situation from their perspective is a necessary compass to chart a path in the middle of a complex scenario. Juan Manuel Barrero interviewed Susana García […]
The force of force majeure in a pandemic world
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 – and where possible, standardise – force majeure language across all their legal […]
Fondos de fondos, volver a lo básico, educación, salud y agro entre los retos del venture capital
El buen 2019 para la industria del venture capital en Chile explica, en gran parte, la actividad que ha seguido teniendo este año el ecosistema, pese a la compleja situación económica y social por la que atraviesa el país y el mundo entero a raiz de la emergencia sanitaria que ha generado la pandemia del coronavirus en estos ocho meses. Y las […]
Collaboration enables Impact Investing firm Capria to support thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems, even amid a global pandemic
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 […]
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 […]
Making carbon neutral a reality
Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. But a big challenge to becoming carbon neutral is data, especially for global enterprises and municipalities. Systems that manage energy production and consumption often don’t share data. So ReEngen developed a platform that both aggregates data across multiple […]
Bringing economic opportunity to the unbanked
In Latin America, ~250 million people don’t have access to financial services. Most lack a documented history of payment behavior. And many are saddled by past-due debt to predatory lenders. In Chile, 50% of people have past due debt. In Mexico, it’s more like 60%. Often they don’t know how much they owe. Sometimes they simply don’t realize they […]
New jobs make healthcare affordable
In Mexico, 11,000,000 people need access to a physiotherapist every day but there are only 10,000 physiotherapists. That means 90% of patients have to go to more expensive nurses and doctors, or go without treatment. The situation is expected to worsen as demand for physiotherapists doubles in the next 5 years. To solve this problem of lack of […]
Susana Garcia-Robles joins Capria as a Venture Partner
Susana comes with 20 years of experience investing in seed and VC funds in LAC (Latin American and Caribbean) and building entrepreneurial ecosystems working in partnership with LAC governments and the private sector. Here is her outlook on the challenges that lie ahead and her plan - What is your professional background that is relevant to […]
