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 […]
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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 […]
Capria Fund Invests in India’s Arkam Ventures, a INR 700 Cr technology fund
Seattle, Washington. June 8, 2020 Capria has invested in Arkam Ventures, an early stage technology fund based out of Bangalore, India. As a part of this investment, Arkam Ventures has joined Capria Network, world’s largest network of emerging market fund managers collaborating to deliver superior returns and scaled impact. Capria’s Second Venture […]
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 […]
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 […]
8 Months at Cruising Altitude: My 2019-2020 Capria Fellowship
Daniel Kranzler, the Senior Partner under whom I worked for the last 8 months, has a metaphor he likes to use when describing what it is like to be at Capria. When you are an entrepreneur at an operating company, more often than not you are in the thick of things – engulfed in the mud, the weeds, the jungle, the dense and complex environment of […]
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 […]
Capria bets on Chile after social outbreak: “The fact is that the country will survive”
Its founder, Will Poole, says the company will manage USD $ 1 billion worldwide. In November, Will Poole, one of the founders of the international social impact investment accelerator Capria, traveled to our country to encourage investment in venture capital and meet with his Chilean partners, including LarrainVial. Accompanied by the […]
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 - […]
