{"id":3365,"date":"2018-07-31T05:53:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2018-08-06T05:55:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:55:26","slug":"%e2%80%a81-investment-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/%e2%80%a81-investment-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"IFC to Invest in Capria Fund to Address the \u2028$1 Trillion Global \u201cMissing Middle\u201d Investment Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>IFC makes second investment in Capria\u2019s new \u201cnetwork fund\u201d to invest in and provide support to more local fund managers in emerging markets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seattle, Washington, July 31, 2018\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/strong>International Finance Corporation (IFC), the for-profit investment arm of the World Bank, has published its intent to invest up to $13M in <em>Capria Fund<\/em>, a new $100 million \u201cnetwork fund\u201d that actively invests in and partners with next generation impact fund managers in emerging markets. Through its work in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, Capria is looking to grow current network-wide assets under management (AUM) of $260 million to more than $1 billion over the next two years, advancing a new model to address the <a href=\"http:\/\/capria.vc\/missing-middle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1+ trillion \u201cmissing middle\u201d investment opportunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2400 size-large alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/unitus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IFC-Featured-Image-3-700x350.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To this end, Capria recently added five new fund managers to the <a href=\"https:\/\/capria.vc\/network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capria Network<\/a>, bringing the total to 16 managers eligible to receive investments from the <a href=\"https:\/\/capria.vc\/investment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capria Fund<\/a> after its first close, anticipated in August of 2018.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/capria.vc\/ifc-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read the complete announcement here&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/capria\/\" rel=\"tag\">Capria<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/ifc\/\" rel=\"tag\">IFC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/world-bank\/\" rel=\"tag\">World bank<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFC makes second investment in Capria\u2019s new \u201cnetwork fund\u201d to invest in and provide support to more local fund managers in emerging markets. Seattle, Washington, July 31, 2018\u00a0\u2014\u00a0International Finance Corporation (IFC), the for-profit investment arm of the World Bank, has published its intent to invest up to $13M in Capria Fund, a new $100 million&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/%e2%80%a81-investment-opportunity\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_aioseop_title":"","_aioseop_description":"IFC makes second investment in Capria\u2019s new \u201cnetwork fund\u201d to invest in and provide support to more local fund managers in emerging markets.","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,4],"tags":[207,208,209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}