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Monaco, January 15, 2019 - Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) and the Government of Monaco signed a partnership agreement to create the first impact fund dedicated to education in Africa. Launched by 2020, its objective will be to address the challenges of access, equity, quality and adequacy of education in Africa. Photo: M. Gilles Tonelli, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation et M. Jean-Michel Severino, CEO of Investisseurs & Partenaires.  © Direction de la Communication/Mikael Alesi.

Initiated by Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), the Foundation for Studies and Research on International Development (Ferdi) and the African Club of Entrepreneurs, the blog Entreprenante Afrique is a direct and logical continuation of the eponymous book published in 2016 by Jean-Michel Severino and Jérémy Hajdenberg. Its objective: to witness and promote entrepreneurial momentum in Africa, by sharing entrepreneurial stories and helping us to better understand the context in which African entrepreneurs work

I&P's 23th Newsletter focuses on the closing of I&P Développement 2, with an editorial signed by Stefan Nalletamby of the African Development Bank (one of the main investors of the roundtable).

The newsletter also includes the latest news and arrivals in the team, news from the companies in the portfolio and the latest I&P investments

On October 16, 2018, Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) hold for the first time its General Assembly in Africa, gathering about twenty investors in Abidjan.

At this occasion I&P hold a press conference to highlight the rapid expansion of its team, especially in Africa, its ambitious recruitment objectives in all its countries of operation and the launch of 5 new impact funds in sub-Saharan Africa over the next 5 years.

The fund I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs 2, launched in December 2017 with a first closing at €50 million, made its first investments. Operating in various sectors of activity, the first companies of IPAE 2 portfolio share a common feature: the choice to develop their activities, from the outset, in several African countries. Two of them also share a strong technological component.

The investment company I&P Développement 2 (IPDEV 2), managed by Investisseurs & Partenaires, has released its ESG & Annual Impact reporting (as of March 2018).

I&P publishes the third newsletter of 2018, with a focus on the recent launch of the impact fund Comoé Capital, sponsored by IPDEV 2 :

• Edito of Joël Cadier, Chairman of Comoé Capital

• Focus on the launching event of Comoé Capital, in March 2018

• Portrait of Fidèle Diomandé, Founder of Vallesse Editions

• Publication dof the fourth chapter of "Fifteen Years, Fifteen Lessons from Africa"

The Education Impact Fund (EIF), an impact fund dedicated to education in Côte d'Ivoire, announces a first investment in the company Vallesse Editions.

Launched in November 2017 in partnership with the Jacobs Foundation, the EIF is managed by Comoé Capital, the first investment company dedicated to financing and supporting high-potential small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Côte d'Ivoire.

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