# Michael Jansa

> Michael Jansa is a startup investor at Emerging Capital Partners (Washington). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Emerging Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emerging-capital-partners-ecp)
- Location: Washington, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-jansa-0879a623/

Michael Jansa is a Managing Director and Founding Partner of Emerging Capital Partners (ECP). Having raised over $2.5 billion for investment, ECP is a leading private equity manager focused exclusively on Africa. ECP has seven offices across Africa and over 15 years of investing experience, having made over 60 investments and 30 exits withoperations in over 40 countries on the continent. As a Managing Director, Mr. Jansa manages existing Funds II and III investments through to exit and acts as a senior advisor to the investment team.Prior to joining ECP in 2000, Mr. Jansa was a Vice President of GE Capital’s Structured Finance Group, where his responsibilities included management of the firm’s $580 million investment fund focused on emerging market power investments. In this capacity, he analyzed, valued, and recommended various equity and debt investments and joint ventures in the energy sectors.Before joining GE Capital in 1995, Mr. Jansa was a Director of Financial Planning at Q2 Resource Television, an early-stage online retailer in New York. He began his career by spending nine years with Union Pacific Corporation where he became Manager of the Corporate Finance Group.Mr. Jansa received an MBA from the London Business School and a BBA in Accounting from Iowa State University. He has served on the board of the PanAfrican Energy Corporation (Mauritius), NCT Necotrans (Pan Africa), Somdiaa (Central Africa), Ocean & Oil (Nigeria) and Wentworth Resources (East Africa), and he currently serves on the board of Notore Chemical Industries (Nigeria).

## About Emerging Capital Partners

VC Fund · Washington, United States

ECP is a private equity group dedicated to investing in Africa.They are a pan-African private equity firm that has raised over US$2 billion for investment across the African continent, including the Francophone regions. They have put their investors’ capital to work in over 40 countries in all major regions of the continent, directly supportingover 50,000 jobs.

5 contacts available at Emerging Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brice Lodugnon | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brice-lodugnon |
| Bryce Fort | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryce-fort |
| Carolyn Campbell | Managing Director, Founding Partner & COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carolyn-campbell |
| Ferdinand Kemoum Ngon | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ferdinand-kemoum-ngon |
| Michael Jansa | Managing Director and Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-jansa |

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