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Rob Elof

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Smart Money Rating: 94 out of 100

Co-founder, Partner, Lateral Frontiers

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Lateral Frontiers
Title
Co-founder, Partner
Role
General partner
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Record updated 18 September 2026

About

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. Rob holds a masters degree in finance from Cambridge University and a bachelor's degree with dual majors in philosophy and economics from the University of Cape Town.

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