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The team of Investisseurs & Partenaires wishes you all the best for 2021... we hope it will be a more favorable year, both privately and professionally, after the difficult year of 2020. A review of the key moments of 2020 and our projects for 2021, with Jean-Michel Severino, CEO of Investisseurs & Partenaires.

See also: our first newsletter of 2021!

On Tuesday November 24th, Investisseurs & Partenaires hosted a webconference on the theme "Entrepreneurs in Africa: surviving the Covid-19 crisis"

This event was the opportunity to hear the views of African entrepreneurs and key players in the ecosystem: how has the Covid-19 crisis impacted African small and medium enterprises? What are the mid and long term strategies to be implemented ? What initiatives to support these companies ?

I&P was awarded at the seventh edition of the "ESG Best Practices Honours", organized by SWEN Capital Partners on November 26, 2020, along with four other awardees.

This is the second prize attributed by Swen Capital to I&P, which this year receives the Special Jury Prize, "for a longstanding impact approach that stands among the best market standards and support for entrepreneurship in Africa"

This edition of I&P's quarterly newsletter focuses on the Tech sector, with an editorial by Samir Abdelkrim (EMERGING Valley, StartupBRICS) and a review of the first financing operations carried out by our I&P Acceleration Technologies program.

I&P is pleased to present its first annual impact report. Historically, we have measured our impact and achievements in individual reports at the level of our various investment vehicles (and we will continue to do so!). This report is our first attempt to capture an aggregate picture of the collective results of our mission across the entire organization and team.

The impact investing group Investisseurs & Partenaires is pleased to announce the launch of a new office in Nairobi, Kenya.

This is an important step to leverage I&P’s successful track record and to expand its reach into East Africa.

Launched a few months thanks to the support of the French Development Agency through the Digital Africa initiative, the program I&P Acceleration Technologies welcomes three high-potential African digital startups in its portfolio.

Read more about I&P Acceleration Technologies

Since 2015,  I&P Développement 2 (IPDEV 2) is a partner and sponsor of 5 African impact funds - Sinergi Burkina in Burkina Faso, Miarakap in Madagascar, Sinergi in Niger, Comoé Capital in Ivory Coast and Teranga Capital in Senegal - dedicat

Launched last July, the I&P Acceleration in Sahel program is carrying out the first three seed financings in Senegal, for an average amount of 30 million FCFA. This is an important step for this ambitious programme financed by the European Union, which aims to support some 300 small businesses in the Sahel sub-region.

Sinergi Burkina impact fund, dedicated to the financing and support of small and medium-sized enterprises in Burkina Faso, is providing five new seed funding through two programmes implemented by I&P and financed by the European Union (I&P Acceleration in Sahel) and the United States Agency for International Development (Partnering To Accelerate Entrepreneurship initiative).