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Français Launch of Sinergi Burkina, new financing opportunity for Small Enterprises in Burkina FasoNews | 08/02/2016 Officially launched on February 5 in Ouagadougou, Sinergi Burkina is a new fund dedicated to small growing businesses and start-ups in Burkina, sponsored by Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P). Its objective: address the financing needs of local entrepreneurs and encourage them... |
 Plead the case for African entrepreneurship: a key component of I&P's impact policyNews | 28/01/2016 The team of I&P sends you their best wishes for 2016! Jean-Michel Severino, President of Investisseurs & Partenaires, signs the editorial of the newsletter of January, reflecting on the highlights of 2015 and the perspectives to come in 2016. He notably underlines the... |
 Featured Entrepreneur: Gatien Adjagboni, director of the bakery TincyEntrepreneurs | 27/01/2016 Gatien Adjagboni, a young Beninese entrepreneur, has started a few years ago a promising bakery activity in the capital city of Cotonou. He graduated from a French business school and started his career at the Brtitish America Tobacco Benin. In 2006, he launched his own consulting firm,... |
 Scrimad develops its activities and launches new factoryEntrepreneurs | 26/01/2016 The fund I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs (IPAE) announced last July the new investment in Scrimad, a company based in Madagascar specialized in the export of litchi and other tropical fruits. The processing factory is operational since December 14, 2015. Unlike the collect and... |
 Foresight Africa: top priorities for the African continent in 2016Intelligence & Analysis | 08/01/2016 The Africa Growth Initiative just released the updated version of the annual Foresight Africa report. As described by the authors, “this year's format is different from years past, encompassing viewpoints from high-level policymakers, academics, and practitioners, as well as... |
 Finance Trust Bank (Uganda) launches mobile bankingEntrepreneurs | 05/01/2016 The Microfinance Institution Finance Trust Bank has partnered with the leading Telecommunication Companies to launch a mobile banking offer for its customers. Finance Trust Bank is one of the oldest MFIs in Uganda, started its operations in 1984. The... |
 I&P invests in the bakery Tincy in BeninNews | 21/12/2015 The fund I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs (IPAE) welcomes a new company in its portfolio by partnering with the bakery Tincy, based in Benin. ► Read the press release Created in 2009, Tincy Boulangerie is a semi-... |
 Jean-Michel Severino presents the fund IPDEV2 for Le Monde AfriqueIn The Press | 16/12/2015 Jean-Michel Severino, President of Investisseurs & Partenaires since 2011, is interviewed by Samir Abdelkrim (Le Monde Afrique) to present to fund IPDEV2. Conceived as an incubator and sponsor of African funds, IPDEV2 has recently announced its first closing at 9.5... |
 GIIN launches Landscape Report on Impact Investing in West AfricaIntelligence & Analysis | 14/12/2015 The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), in partnership with Dalberg Global Development Advisors, today published The Landscape for Impact Investing in West Africa, a state-of-the-market analysis of the impact investing industry in the region. The report includes regional... |
 ANDE discussion in Accra with Baafour Otu-Boateng and Sebastien BoyéNews | 11/12/2015The West African Regional Chapter of ANDE (Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs) is hosting on December 11 in Accra (Ghana) a roundtable meeting to discuss the topic ''how to scale clean energy adoption?" to examine the challenges and opportunities for the ecosystem that supports... |