EM crowdfunding serves up ‘African Starbucks’

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EM crowdfunding serves up ‘African Starbucks’

In a bid to help fill the funding gap in emerging markets left by banks and private equity, two businessmen have launched Emerging Crowd, a crowdfunding company. Co-founders Lucien Moolenaar and Will Tindall claim it to be the first UK platform that allows retail investors to invest to equity and debt fundraisings by unlisted growth-stage companies in frontier and emerging markets.

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