Emerging Capital Partners

Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) is an international private equity firm focused on investing across the African continent including Francophone Africa. The firm is the first private equity group to raise over US$1.8 billion to invest exclusively in African companies. The firm's investors are uncorrelated to the U.S. and other global economies. By the third quarter of 2008, the firm had invested in approximately 50 companies, exited from about 20, and achieved an average return of three times its initial investments. In June 2010 it closed ECP Africa Fund III with total commitments of US$613 million, the largest raised for growth equity investing across the continent. While the African continent is generally overlooked in terms of...