Early stage venture fund Unitus Ventures said its 24 portfolio companies impacted over 12.2 million bottom-of-the-pyramid lives in 2020 – an increase of 34 per cent from 8.9 million in 2019. The cumulative revenue of the portfolio companies improved by 26 per cent through 2020 at $141 million. Masai School, Gigforce, DriveU, Blowhorn, GoCoop, […]
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Capria Ventures invests USD $2 Mn in Angel Ventures Pacific Alliance Fund to boost Innovation in emerging markets
Capria completed three investments in LATAM in under a year, including its co-investment in Argentina-based Agrofy and its LP investment in Brazil-based SP Ventures. Angel Ventures will focus on addressing gaps in financial inclusion, food security and access to education and information in the Pacific Alliance region. Seattle, January 2021: […]
Global Ventures announces partnership with Capria Ventures
Global investment firm Capria Ventures makes first investment into the MENA region London, UK, December 17, 2020: Global Ventures, a UAE-based venture capital firm, is excited to partner with Capria Ventures (“Capria”), a Seattle-based global investment fund-of-funds. Capria has approved its investment in Global Ventures’ second fund, which […]
Remote Due Diligence for Investors in a Pandemic World
“When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” It is a famous quote attributed to John F. Kennedy, and while not true, it’s a great conversation opener. Undeniably, a crisis presents opportunities; we now have seen for months one unfolding across the global […]
Capria Ventures Partners with SP Ventures to Invest in Latin American Agtech Startup Agrofy
This is Capria Ventures’ first direct co-investment in Latin America’s thriving agtech ecosystem. Listings on Agrofy have grown 89% YOY as more players in the market are adopting and becoming more comfortable with the e-commerce model. Seattle, October 29, 2020: Leading agtech startup, Agrofy, has raised USD 3 million in Series B funding from […]
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 […]
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 […]
SP Ventures has reached the first closing of its USD50MM LatAm focused AgFood Tech venture fund
Sao Paulo, Brazil, August, 2020 SP Ventures, one of the most active global agtech venture investors & a sector leader in Latin America, has just announced the first closing of its latest early stage fund. The new investment vehicle, AgVentures II, targets a minimum of USD 50MM & a cap of USD 75MM to invest in 20-25 tech firms with the […]
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 […]
