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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).

Investisseurs & Partenaires is pleased to announce the launch of I&P Acceleration in Sahel, a €15.5 million program financed by the European Union to support the growth and development of 300 start-ups and small businesses in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin.

Despite a global context strongly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, the fund I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs 2 (IPAE 2) continues its investment activity and welcomes in its portfolio a new Malagasy company, SOAFIARY, operating in the agro-food sector. 

A first investment in Madagascar for IPAE 2

I&P was one of the founding signatory of the Operating Principles for Impact Management,  a market standard for the impact investing sector, defined by the International Finance Corporation.

After being imagined and incubated by the AFD Campus du Développement, the SIBC will be piloted over the next three years by I&P Conseil and its partners - African Management Institute, ScaleChanger and StartupBRICS - to accelerate its deployment, particularly in Africa. Registrations for this fourth edition, which will respond to the challenges of societal resilience and innovation accentuated by the Covid-19 crisis, are open:

As an impact investor dedicated to African SMEs, I&P bears a specific responsibility in the response to be brought to the economic crisis that is hitting the African continent, perhaps even more than the health crisis.