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2EMMA is an independent Emerging Market Finance Advisory platform created to facilitate business TO and from EMerging MArkets; while also aiming content & community features as an add-on knowledge-base for business opportunity generation

Its footprint & scope are rather wide & expanding- initially based on the founder’s own extensive regional experiences- but even more so on the established long-term relationships with a large set of interesting, reliable & resourceful experts with EMMA footing or zeal

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  • A team of senior investment & corporate executives, with independent self-driven and institutional backgrounds
  • Proven track record of principal deals, with significant VC / PE experience in both direct & fund management settings
  • Experience in business / project development of green- / brown-field projects, as well as related finance & operations
  • Entrepreneurial mindset & commercial acumen, from numerous emerging market startup & development ventures
  • A full spectrum of tested people skills, as managers & coaches, but also as team players & soldiers
  • Unique & diversified views of the world, industries and finance for insightful and interesting research & analysis 
  • Golden rolodex of industry players, finance institutions, governments, project developers, contractors & advisers

 

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2EMMA-associated platform mandates done so far in SADC, SEE & MENA regions and in the following sectors: impact investment, asset management, merchant banking, power, healthcare, mining, construction, property, tourism, consumer retail and technology

altVENTURE maintains an exploratory deal pipeline of companies / projects / teams in EMMA regions; and we are always on the lookout for connecting our rolodex to opportunities and vice versa…

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West Virginia Governor's Companies Look to Pay Off Greensill Debts

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Why Investors Can't Kick the 'Past Performance' Habit

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Volvo Cars Needs Investors to Value Brain Over Brawn

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Economic Reality Ruins Summer Camp

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Big Four Auditors Fail to Meet U.K. Regulator Expectations

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Minitrue: Focus on Henan Flood Recovery; Do Not Report on Celebrity Tax Case or COVID Origins Press Conference
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Inside Xinjiang’s Growing Carceral State

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Photo: Luoyang, by xiquinhosilva
Photo: Luoyang, by xiquinhosilva

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Floods Bring Disaster to Henan
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Photo: Sichuan-Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong, by RykJ
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Translation: One Nationalist Fang Fang Hater’s “Coming of Age”
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Photo: May Fourth Square, by keso s
Photo: May Fourth Square, by keso s

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Translation: “Getting Used to Keeping Quiet” in Face of Nationalist Aggression
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Why four-legged animals are better sprinters

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The 12-year-old becoming Tokyo's youngest Olympian

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NSO Group tells BBC News: "The finger-pointing should be at the customer." [...]

Pegasus: Who are the alleged victims of spyware targeting?

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Hackers reportedly demand $50m from Saudi Aramco over data leak

The world's most valuable oil producer confirmed to the BBC that company files had been leaked. [...]

Pegasus: Princess Latifa and Princess Haya numbers 'among leaks'

Numbers used by Princesses Latifa and Haya are reportedly found in a database at the heart of the leaks. [...]

Tokyo 2020: Egypt's Sherif to 'play with heart' in historic medal bid

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Top Trump aide charged with illegal UAE lobbying

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Israel PM warns Ben & Jerry's owner Unilever of consequences over sales ban

The ice cream maker's parent company Unilever is told "strong action" will be taken against boycotts. [...]

The referee making Olympic history

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Mongolia's COVID-19 tally rises to 155,224

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Biden announces USD 100 million in emergecy aid for Afghan

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China trounces Romania, loses to ROC in Olympic 3x3 women's basketball

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Medvedev wins Olympic opener as Djokovic begins gold medal bid

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Over 30 Taliban terrorists killed, 17 injured in Afghan air

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33 Taliban militants killed in Afghan air force strikes: gov't

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Sumit Nagal enters next round of Tokyo Olympics

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US Diplomat Blinken to visit India next week

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EAM Jaishankar meets Afghan peace negotiator Abdullah

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Tokyo Olympics: Indian Judoka Shushila Devi Likmabam loses

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South Africa: Proteas Spin Ireland Out of T20 Series - but Racism Claims Put Boucher On a Sticky Wicket

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Southern Africa: Business Leaders Concerned That eThekwini Mayor Offers Platitudes but No Concrete Plans to Rebuild Operations

[Daily Maverick] Business leaders in eThekwini feel that they are no closer to knowing whether the municipality will be taking steps to help them rebuild their damaged operations after a meeting with the mayor left them with few concrete remedies. [...]

Mozambique: 2.5 Million Doses of Covid-19 Vaccine to Arrive On Monday

[AIM] Maputo -- The first batch of the 11 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19 promised by Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on 15 July will arrive in the country next Monday, according to Health Minister Armindo Tiago. [...]

Zimbabwe: Prof George Kahari Dies At Age 91

[New Zimbabwe] PROFESSOR George Kahari, who three days ago turned 91, has died. [...]

Mozambique: Power Utility Replaces Electricity Network in Maputo

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's publicly owned Electricity Company, EDM, on Friday started to replace obsolete cables and pylons over about seven kilometres in the inner Maputo neighbourhood of Malhangalene, in a bid to improve the quality of power reaching consumers. [...]

Mozambique: Investigation Into How Teachers Were Hired Illegally

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Education Ministry is working with the Attorney-General's Office (PGR) to investigate how 88 teachers were hired illegally in Mecanhelas district in the northern province of Niassa. [...]

Zimbabwe: Passion Java Gifts Mai TT, Madam Boss With Posh Cars

[New Zimbabwe] CONTROVERSIAL prophet and socialite, Passion Java has gifted comediennes, Mai TT and Madam Boss with top of the range, Mercedes Benz Compressors. [...]

Mozambique: Appeals Court Confirms Verdict in Setina Titosse Case

[AIM] Maputo -- The Maputo Higher Appeals Court (TSR) has upheld the verdict of the Maputo City Court which found Setina Titosse, the former chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Development Fund (FDA) guilty of the theft of 170 million meticais between… [...]

Zimbabwe: Sandra Ndebele, Madam Boss to Star in South Africa Netflix Movie

[New Zimbabwe] Salacious local musician and dancer, Sandra Ndebele has been selected as one of the Zimbabwean artists to star in a South African-produced Netflix film, The Bad Bishop. [...]

Kosovo Unveils Statue of Football Legend Vokrri
Kosovo Unveils Statue of Football Legend Vokrri

Three years after the sudden death of Fadil Vokrri, he has returned in bronze form near the stadium in the Kosovo capital where he played at the peak of his footballing career. [...]

UNESCO Gives North Macedonia More Time to Protect Ohrid
UNESCO Gives North Macedonia More Time to Protect Ohrid

The UN cultural organisation again has extended the deadline for North Macedonia to curb rampant urban development in Ohrid, to avoid it being reclassified as a ‘World Heritage Site in Danger’. [...]

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Pleads Not Guilty to War Crimes
Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Pleads Not Guilty to War Crimes

Former Bosnian Serb Army company commander Rade Macura pleaded not guilty to failing to punish subordinates who abused and shot civilian prisoners in the Gradiska area in 1992. [...]

Balkan Insight’s Week in Pictures
Balkan Insight’s Week in Pictures

A round-up of Balkan Insight's favourite photographs of the week. [...]

Bosnian Genocide Denial Ban Pleases Survivors, Angers Serbs
Bosnian Genocide Denial Ban Pleases Survivors, Angers Serbs

Survivors of the Srebrenica massacres welcomed the decision by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s international overseer to impose legislation to ban the denial of genocide and war crimes, but some Bosnian Serbs vowed to defy it. [...]

Bosnia’s High Representative Imposes Genocide Denial Ban
Bosnia’s High Representative Imposes Genocide Denial Ban

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official, High Representative Valentin Inzko, used his power to impose amendments to the country’s criminal code to ban the denial of genocide and the glorification of war criminals. [...]

Serbia’s Pro-Govt Media Link KRIK Investigators to Crime Gang
Serbia’s Pro-Govt Media Link KRIK Investigators to Crime Gang

Pro-government media in Serbia on Friday launched another smear campaign against the KRIK investigative portal, accusing it of having links to a criminal gang charged with murder, torture and money laundering. [...]

Men Only: Media in Albanian Election Focused on Male Leaders
Men Only: Media in Albanian Election Focused on Male Leaders

During the campaign for the April 25 elections, websites of Albanian media outlets devoted far more attention to the ruling Socialist Party, its leader, Edi Rama, and men, than to smaller parties or women candidates. [...]

Romanian Jewish Community Hails Return of Nazi-Looted Heritage
Romanian Jewish Community Hails Return of Nazi-Looted Heritage

The Jewish community in Cluj will be among a number of communities in Eastern and Central Europe to benefit from the US authorities' seizure and restitution of 17 scrolls stolen during World War II, which were being auctioned in the US. [...]

Montenegro Rules out Changes to Kosovo Border Agreement
Montenegro Rules out Changes to Kosovo Border Agreement

Montenegro on Friday said changing the 2018 border deal with Kosovo was out of the question – despite the Kosovo PM's earlier vow to correct what he called its 'terrible mistakes'. [...]

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