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Investing in Africa: Why Venture Capitalists Should Look to Angola
- July 5, 2023
- Posted by: ABO Capital
- Category: Articles, Press Releases, Publications by Zandre Campos
No CommentsWhile venture capital funding has cooled around the world, there’s one region that’s strongly bucking the trend: Africa. According to the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA), the first half of 2022 saw an unprecedented US$3.5 billion raised from 300 unique companies, and the continent’s startup scene experienced year on year growth of
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Forbes: What Entrepreneurs Should Keep In Mind To Navigate Major Disruptions
- April 23, 2020
- Posted by: ABO Capital
- Category: Articles, Publications by Zandre Campos
Part of being an entrepreneur is learning to roll with the punches, finding new ways to do business and looking for solutions to stay ahead of the curve. However, despite the forward ways of thinking that are inherent to entrepreneurs, there are occasional times when not just one industry but the entire economy is disrupted.
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Forbes: Challenges Of An African Entrepreneur
- August 22, 2019
- Posted by: ABO Capital
- Category: Articles
Africa is a continent that is always trying to prevail over challenges: some self-inflicted, while others are due to outside forces. When a challenge is conquered, another springs up. Today, there are numerous challenges, especially in Angola, where I spent my early years. While the country has a history of war, it has overcome many
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ABO Capital Holds Competitive Essay Contest & Awards Scholarships to Student Who Highlighted Food Insecurity in Africa
- December 12, 2018
- Posted by: ABO Capital
- Category: Articles
ABO Capital, a leading international investment firm headquartered in Angola with holdings throughout the world, held a competitive educational essay contest and awarded a student from Johns Hopkins University a scholarship for one full semester of college and a five-night all expenses paid trip to Angola. In addition to the selected winner, two runners-up also received
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How We Made It In Africa: The Journey So Far: Zandre Campos, CEO, ABO Capital
- October 9, 2017
- Posted by: ABO Capital
- Category: Articles
Zandre Campos is the CEO of Angola-based investment firm ABO Capital. Tell us about one of the toughest situations you’ve found yourself in as a business owner. I would say my biggest challenge was getting started. Starting a business with such a big vision can seem overwhelming and it’s very easy to lose hope when
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Quartz: Sub-Saharan Africa is still in the dark but North Africa will soon be selling power to Europe
- September 28, 2017
- Posted by: ABO Capital
- Category: Articles
Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, has an electricity problem. Even though the continent’s power generating capacity has slowly improved over the years, rationing, rolling shortages, and blackouts continue to hamper many countries development—including economic giants like South Africa and Nigeria. These cutoffs stunt economic growth, hindering small and large businesses alike as well as schools and
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How We Made It In Africa: Investment Firm On Why It Acquired A School In Angola
- August 14, 2017
- Posted by: ABO Capital
- Category: Articles
Angola-based investment firm ABO Capital recently announced that it has acquired a well-known Turkish school situated in the Samba district, just south of the capital Luanda. Complexo Escolar Privado Internacional (CEPI), formerly Colégio Esperança Internacional, provides education for pre-school through high school students. How we made it in Africa asked Zandre Campos, CEO of ABO Capital, about
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Tourism Tattler: Business Tourism in Africa Continues to Expand
- August 8, 2017
- Posted by: ABO Capital
- Category: Articles
Perceptions of Africa as a business destination have changed vastly in recent times. The ICCA 2016 rankings reveal that Africa is growing in popularity as a destination for business tourism. By Zandre Campos. It has been perceived that doing business or hosting events in Africa can be complicated. However, there has been a recent boom in both
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African Sun Times: Zandre Campos CEO of ABO Capital Arranges NYU Africa House Visit for Angolan Students
- July 18, 2017
- Posted by: ABO Capital
- Category: Articles
Zandre Campos, CEO of ABO Capital, a leading international investment firm headquartered in Angola, announced today that fifteen students from Complexo Escolar Privado Internacional (CEPI), visited New York University (NYU) Africa House. NYU Africa House is an interdisciplinary institute devoted to the study of contemporary Africa, focusing on economic, political, and social issues on the
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African Leadership Magazine: Fifteen CEPI Students to Compete in New York Education Competition
- June 28, 2017
- Posted by: ABO Capital
- Category: Articles
Zandre Campos, CEO of ABO Capital, a leading international investment firm headquartered in Angola, announced today that fifteen students from Complexo Escolar Privado Internacional (CEPI), travelled to Oswego, N.Y. to attend the GENIUS International High School Project Olympiad at the State University of New York at Oswego. GENIUS Olympiad took place from June 12 through
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