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 […]
Category: Thinking
Only the Decisive Survive
Over the past 7 years, our fund has invested in some 30 early-stage startups in India, and through our global partners, another 30+ in other emerging markets. Many are thriving, some are challenged but still growing, and some are just hanging on. None have Softbank-level funding, yet -- meaning that the impending shock to the business climate of […]
COVID-19 Will Affect You; What’s Your Plan?
The CDC suggests that America needs to prepare for a global pandemic. The Harvard professor of epidemiology Marc Lipsitch predicts that some 40 to 70 percent of all people around the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 (also known as Coronavirus). But, he clarifies emphatically, this does not mean that all will have severe […]
The “Fund Manager’s Fund” filling the missing middle has forked out a fresh USD $8Mn for funders in emerging markets
The “Fund Manager’s Fund”, Capria, which claims to be the largest network of emerging market fund managers, has announced that it would be investing up to USD $8 Mn in specific countries in emerging markets, including African countries like Uganda, Senegal, Côte d’Ivore, Tanzania and Ethiopia. When Capria first launched in 2015, it […]
How Latin American entrepreneurs are changing the region, one business at a time
Latin America’s growing startup ecosystem stands out because of how the region is using the combination of technology and business to build a foundation for a future that is better than what countries in this region have historically seen. International VCs like Sequoia Capital, Capria Network, Naspers and Didi Chuxing are heavily investing in […]
How entrepreneurship can help Chile and LatAm – My reflections on a risky visit to Santiago during protest week five
I first traveled to Chile in 2005 on Microsoft business and then again in 2011 for a family holiday. In my work for Capria, I’ve been to Santiago at least five times over the past three years, focused on fundraising for our global efforts and on selecting and supporting a great local fund manager to be a part of the Capria Network (we found one - […]
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 […]
The “Advancer” takes impact to the next level
Uma Sekar, Director, Impact & ESG, Capria has some lessons for other players in the impact investing space. Uma leads the impact investment strategy implementation and framework development at Capria and Unitus Ventures. She believes aligning a CEO’s long-term vision to impact through integration as a part of their business strategy, is […]
Limited no more – how the ‘Abraaj Effect’ is rewriting the role of LPs and GPs against a new investment paradigm
In part 1: https://capria.vc/dsa of this two-part series, we explored the changing dynamics between Limited Partners (LPs), private fund investors, and General Partners (GPs), private fund managers, in an investment fund. In part 2, we look at how a significant event has resulted into LPs driving accountability from GPs, and GPs responding with […]
No longer limited – how the dynamics of LP-GP relationships are evolving amid shifting investment paradigms
For the longest time, the role of investors in a private investment fund, also known as “Limited Partners” or “LPs”, was exactly that – limited. They gave their money to professional fund managers (aka General Partners or GPs) and received quarterly reports on how their investments were doing. That is now changing. A growing number of LPs […]
Funds Accelerator from the US preparing office in Chile to lead Latin America
The firm, which is backed by Bill Gates, plans to invest in local funds and co-invest in local companies Capria invested in FEN Ventures and has an association with LarrainVial for local investors were there is Del Río family and Mustakis Foundation Almost everything is ready for Capria, the American investment funds accelerator that […]
Latin America VC latest trends
With almost 700 million population, 20 diverse countries, 15% of the land on earth, 80% of its citizens living in cities (most urbanized continent), and a total GDP reaching USD $6 trillion, it is no news that Latin America is becoming a wealthier region. Venture capital is significantly contributing to this trend by helping scale upcoming […]
