Rob has spent his career investing, living and working in developing markets. Prior to co-founding Lateral Frontiers he was a Venture Partner with Conversion Capital and established Frontier Dawn Partners, an evergreen vehicle for capital deployment to early stage, technology enabled founding teams in sub-Saharan Africa. Rob started his career in capital markets at JP Morgan, Johannesburg, became an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs and Investment Director at ACI. He spent ten years based in Johannesburg, Moscow and London transitioning across hedge fund coverage and private equity buyout advisory in markets including sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
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Africa
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Lateral Frontiers Fund
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Lateral is founded in 2017, emerging from their founders' shared experience investing into the early ecosystem and a collective vision to build something that met the needs of founders and the nascent funding environment.
Their management team has 45+ years investment experience across Asia, Africa, Latam & other markets. Since then, the Lateral team has grown and is supported by experienced operators across emerging markets who all work closely to support our founders in building their companies.
Their management team has 45+ years investment experience across Asia, Africa, Latam & other markets. Since then, the Lateral team has grown and is supported by experienced operators across emerging markets who all work closely to support our founders in building their companies.
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