{"id":14796,"date":"2026-04-27T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/verods-investment-playbook-for-west-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:54:07","slug":"verods-investment-playbook-for-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/verods-investment-playbook-for-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Verod\u2019s investment playbook for West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_184379\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-184379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danladi Verheijen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Interview with Danladi Verheijen<\/strong><br \/>CO-FOUNDER and CEO, VEROD<\/p>\n<p>Lives in: Nigeria<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>In 2008, Danladi Verheijen co-founded Verod Capital Management, a private equity investment firm focused on West Africa. <em>How we made it in Africa<\/em> editor-in-chief <strong>Jaco Maritz<\/strong> interviewed him about his journey as an investor and the lessons he has learnt along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Topics discussed during the interview include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The deal that put Verod on the map<\/li>\n<li>Backing Moniepoint, an African unicorn<\/li>\n<li>Why he likes the gym business<\/li>\n<li>His toughest moments as an investor<\/li>\n<li>Long-distance running as a&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howwemadeitinafrica.com\/from-beverage-cans-to-gyms-verods-investment-playbook-for-west-africa\/184378\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danladi Verheijen Interview with Danladi VerheijenCO-FOUNDER and CEO, VEROD Lives in: Nigeria In 2008, Danladi Verheijen co-founded Verod Capital Management, a private&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3454,3507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}