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About Us

Amplio Ventures was formed out of Amplio Recruiting, a multi-city staffing agency helping US companies hire dependable employees from the refugee workforce. After placing 5000 refugees in jobs, the greater need of job creation on a global scale was recognized and Amplio Ventures was born.

Amplio Ventures seek to focus on early stage capital for businesses restoring refugee stability. From refugee entrepreneurs to companies employing a large majority of their staff from their refugee workforce, Amplio Ventures desires potential portfolio companies to sustain the following four stakes: refugee stability, monetary velocity, growth ability and leadership vitality.

We lock arms with founders and leadership teams of portfolio companies to determine viability and leverage expert advisers in our network to support the due diligence and capital deployment processes. Share your contact info to join us in funding, advising or referring businesses restoring refugee stability.

"AMPLIO VENTURES IS DRIVEN BY PRINCIPLES, PROCESSES AND PEOPLE IN ORDER TO INVEST STRATEGICALLY IN SCALABLE BUSINESSES IMPACTING REFUGEES."

Our Team

Apoorv Karmakar

Managing Director

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Thomas Sperry

Chief Investment Advisor

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Chris Chancey

FOUNDER & PARTNER

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Chase Carroll

FOUNDER & OPERATING PARTNER​

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Dalton T. Sirmans​

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Apoorv Karmakar

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Before joining Amplio Ventures, Apoorv Karmakar was a Senior Director at Village Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm in Washington, DC. At Village Capital, Apoorv was instrumental in helping the firm find, train, and invest in startups at the forefront of impact innovation in financial health, sustainability, and the future of work across the globe. As a leader of the firm’s investment and operational strategy, Apoorv helped Village Capital develop sector and geographic specific investment theses by identifying existing critical issues in each sector, evaluating existing solutions, and assessing the investment and exit momentum within each individual market. Apoorv’s cross-disciplinary skillsets were critical in helping Village Capital identify and invest in the most passionate and innovative entrepreneurs that typically sit in venture capital investor blind spots.

In addition to his work at Village Capital, Apoorv has also served as an advisor to several early-stage startups outside of Village Capital’s portfolio, advising entrepreneurs on a variety of different topics including how to develop and execute milestone-based strategic roadmaps, raise investments, and scale their ventures.

Prior to his role at Village Capital, Apoorv worked as a macro and geopolitical strategist, attorney, and an international tax professional, founding a law firm that successfully merged with a Tier 1 firm in India.

Apoorv has B.A. and LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune in India, a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and Masters in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.

Thomas Sperry

Chief Investment Advisor

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As CIA, Tom will advise in the investment process and be a leading voice in the final decision-making process. Tom is a successful entrepreneur-turned-investor who co-founded and is currently the Managing Partner at Rogue Venture Partners, a top-performing fund in the United States, where he has launched three separate funds. His track record speaks for itself, with returning 3x realized returns to investors through 2 funds, from 13 exits. He has been involved in launching multiple accelerators focused on refugee entrepreneurship including in the Gaza Strip.
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Chris Chancey

FOUNDER & PARTNER

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Chris and his wife Sarah are entrepreneurs based in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2014, they launched Amplio Recruiting to serve as a staffing agency helping refugees resettled in the Atlanta metro area find meaningful employment. They have founded several businesses and have extensive start-up experience, fundraising, vision casting and scaling. Chris began dreaming of moving from just a focus on job placement to also implementing job creation strategies in 2016 along with Chase Carroll and soon after, Amplio Ventures was born. Chris engages potential LPs and casts vision for the impact of refugee lens investing. ​
Chase Carroll
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Chase Carroll, CPA, and his family live in Kigali, Rwanda. With a background in public accounting and management consulting, he specializes in building efficient business models, advising businesses in both developed and frontier markets via data-driven recommendations. His detailed models and intense market research guide executives to maximize their growth potential. Chase is an angel investor who is developing a portfolio of high growth impact start-ups in North America and East Africa.
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Dalton T. Sirmans

FOUNDER & PARTNER

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Dalton T. Sirmans is a co-founder of MainStreet Technologies, Inc. (MST), developer of loan portfolio risk management software for banks and credit unions, and real estate document management software for government agencies. As president and CEO, he oversaw the firm’s evolution from a startup in 1999 to serving hundreds of financial institutions in all 50 U.S. states and in Asia, and 80 state government agencies across the Southeastern U.S. As Dalton grew the company’s customer base he also kept it on firm financial footing, enhancing the firm’s value and resulting in a bid from and sale to a financial services industry consolidator in 2018.