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No. 142: Three AM Reads: Cars45 gets $5m | Ethos Makes a Sugar Play | Ghana’s Illegal Mining Problem

May 1, 2017

Africa, Energy & Resources, Notes

balderton capital, cars45, ethos private equity, frontier car group, Ghana, illegal mining, little green beverages, Nigeria, SABMiller, South Africa

Cars45 Gets $5M to Streamline Nigerian Used Auto Sales Jake Bright reports that Cars45 raised a nice Series A round from Frontier Car Group that has backing from some serious names in the venture capital space – Balderton Capital, EchoVC, TPG Growth, and Maryland-based NEA. Seeing that Cars45 raised its round from this one group…
No. 109: 3 Tuesday AM Reads – US-China Relations and Africa | Africa’s Beer Market | Baltimore on the Rise

Sep 29, 2015

Africa, Business, Economics, Notes

Africa, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Baltimore, entrepreneurship, Kenya, Rise of the Rest, SABMiller, Steve Case

Aly-Khan Satchu, one of the most respected equity investors in Kenya, discusses briefly how US-China cooperation would be a benefit to African countries. This aligns with comments Bobby Pittman, managing director of Kupanda Capital made at a session discussing the Electrify Africa Act. More on that sometime later this week. There are rumors of Anheuser-Busch…