Following our series of posts on global trends in impact investing, let's take a deeper dive into the reasons behind the global trends we highlighted and how they vary from country to country. We'll examine the same three categories of Impact Investment Activity, Investment Ecosystem Readiness and Entrepreneurial Activity to provide more context […]
Category: Thinking
Thinking about tax-efficient structures post Panama Papers
As the debate over offshore vehicles rages in mainstream media, fund managers have been painfully aware of the complexities of structuring investments across multiple jurisdictions for some time now. In our previous post, we briefly touched upon some of the diligence you’ll need to be prepared to encounter as you engage international investors […]
Global Trends in Impact Investing: Entrepreneurial Activity
As we searched for candidate fund managers to join our accelerator, we simultaneously conducted a study on the impact investment ecosystems in a subset of countries in Latin America, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. We noticed recurring global themes across the countries in the study, which we categorized into three sections: […]
Global Trends in Impact Investing: Investment Ecosystem Readiness
This is the second of a three-part series on global themes in impact investing. We conducted a study on the current stage of the impact investment ecosystems in a subset of countries in Latin America, South/Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. For more information on our methodology and the countries profiled in this study, check out parts one […]
Global Trends in Impact Investing: Investment Activity
Since launching in September 2015, Capria has received an incredible amount of interest from fund management teams across the globe. In our first nine months, more than 500 impact fund managers with varying backgrounds and experience have requested to apply to our accelerator program from over 60 countries. Capria's mission is to invest in, support […]
Women in Impact Investing: The Network Effect
The network effect is powerful and far-reaching. It allows people to learn from each other, share experiences and it is essential to professional development. “Simply being in an open network instead of a closed one is the best predictor of career success,” writes author and entrepreneur Michael Simmons. A 2015 report found that while both women […]
Why We Need More Women in Impact Investing
It’s Women’s History Month, and newsfeeds are ablaze with articles, videos and infographics on how to smash that glass ceiling and get more women into venture capital. Sheryl Sandberg is telling us to “Lean In” and Melinda Gates is teaching us about the link between time and poverty. Meanwhile, white males everywhere, who manage over 97% of […]
Raising Global Capital: Considerations of Potential LPs
As we engage with our Cohort 1 participants and applications continue to come in for Cohort 2, we get a lot of questions on raising international capital. If you've been out attempting to raise capital or have already done so, you know there are a myriad of challenges you will face as an impact fund manager looking to secure capital from […]
Reflections on 10+ Years of Building Impact Funds in Emerging Markets
"There are lots of great entrepreneurs in high-growth emerging markets in Africa, Latin America and Asia and very little early-stage risk capital available, so their businesses aren’t realizing their potential in areas such as agriculture, healthcare, education and technology. The cause isn’t the lack of capital. What’s needed are on-the-ground, […]
New Research Shows Expansion of Sidecar Funds for Accelerators
Our sister company, Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund), recently released research results from a "Global Best Practices" survey of incubators and accelerators. They found that the concept of creating sidecar investment funds to invest in the best companies in each cohort is catching on faster than expected, with 90% of the accelerators reporting that they have […]
Impact Fundraising 101
Tips for How to Raise your First Impact Fund If you’re planning to raise money for your new impact venture fund, get ready for a long, challenging and uncertain road. From our successful efforts with Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund), and our colleagues’ efforts with Elevar Equity and Unitus Impact, I can tell you it’s a very competitive world out there. In fact, […]
What is Impact?
What does "Impact" mean in the context of the Capria Accelerator? The term “impact investing” has been around for about 10 years. Since the field is still young, impact is a broadly used term, with different meanings to different people. There are many types of impact investors including some with specific definitions such as: Improving […]
