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Mekong Capital invests in chocolate maker Marou By Minh Son April 2, 2021 | 04:00 pm GMT+7 Private equity firm Mekong Capital’s latest fund, which has $246 million under management, has completed its first investment. Marou’s chocolate bars. Photo by Shutterstock/EQRoy. It has invested an undisclosed sum in chocolate crafter Marou, one of the first bean-to-bar artisanal chocolate makers in Asia and among the few in the world to make pure dark chocolate right where the cacao is grown. It was founded in 2011 by two Frenchmen living in Vietnam, Samuel Maruta and Vincent Mourou. During a camping trip in a forest in 2010, they met each other and were impressed by what they heard about cacao in Vietnam and decided to start a chocolate making company. ....