Done Properly concluyó con éxito su ronda de inversión con la participación de Angel Ventures y Endurance Investments. La compañía busca el escalamiento industrial de su tecnología para poder abastecer la demanda global que tienen las empresas líderes de alimentos en el mundo. En noviembre de 2020, Done Properly fue reconocida como la empresa […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Genesis Alternative Ventures to close debut fund by early 2021, secures new LP
Singapore-based venture debt firm Genesis Alternative Ventures is on track to close its $50 million debut fund by early 2021 after securing a new limited partner (LP). LPs in Genesis’s debut fund include Sassoon Investment Corporation, the family office of entrepreneur Victor Sassoon; Indonesian lender CIMB Niaga; and financial institutions, […]
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 […]
Adobe Capital announces the final close of it’s USD 30M Adobe Mezzanine Fund II, L.
Adobe Capital announces the final closing of Adobe Mezzanine Fund II, L.P. with total commitments of $30.3 million US dollars. This second fund is comprised entirely of institutional investors, both local and international. Adobe Mezzanine Fund II, L.P. successfully surpassed the capital raised by the first fund by a considerable margin; Adobe […]
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 […]
