The 10th edition of the Convergences World Forum is focused on the topic “Together, let’s innovate for a Zero exclusion, Zero carbon, Zero poverty world”. It will specifically address 6 Sustainable Development Goals: gender equality (#5), Clean Water and Sanitation (#6), Affordable and Clean Energy (#7), Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (#9), Responsible Consumption and Production ( #12) and Partnerships for the goals (#17)
I&P's July newsletter is online! Review of the important news of the last three months and notably:
• Launch of a high-level training on impact investing, with Patrick Guillaumont, President of the Ferdi
• Launch of I&P Conseil
• Portrait of Mamadou Sanankoua, Director of Conergies in côte d'Ivoire and Mali
Building on its 15-year experience in financing and supporting African entrepreneurs, Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) is developing a consulting activity aiming to improve the business environment and develop the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Africa.
Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) publishes the annual ESG & Impact Report of the fund I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs (IPAE). Since its creation in 2012, IPAE has invested in 28 companies located in 12 different African countries and operating in a great variety of sectors.
On this occasion, I&P publishes a strategic document presenting its ESG & Impact Policy (see below).
Investisseurs & Partenaires received a special prize in the category ''small and mid cap'' awarded by SWEN Capital Partners during their annual event ''ESG Best Practices Honours"
Each year since 2012 the SWEN team has been analyzing and measuring how extra-financial criteria are integrated and implemented at both in the GPs’ investment process as well as at the underlying companies’ level, both for Private Equity and Infrastructure.
Max de Font-Réaulx is the CEO of Théorème, a consulting firm dedicated to the management of business risks. As a specialist of health insurance issues in Africa, he works with several I&P's investees so as to help them set up or improve their healthcare programs.
In an editorial drafted for our latest newsletter, he reflects on the issues at stake and the progress made since 2015.
Teranga Capital, an impact fund dedicated to finance and support Senegalese small and medium businesses, sponsored by I&P, has realized its first investment and welcomes OuiCarry in its portfolio.
Jean-Michel Severino and all the team of Investisseurs & Partenaires wish you the best for 2017!
Find more on our latest news in I&P janruary's newsletter ►►
• Editorial signed by Jean-Michel Severino
In 2017, Investisseurs & Partenaires is celebrating its fifteen years of activity. A good opportunity to reflect on the creation and evolution of this innovative project, always driven by the will to contribute to the emergence of a sustainable private sector in sub-Saharan Africa.
Pierre Daubert manages the art gallery Angalia, specialized in African contemporary art. He is part of I&P's adventure since the very beginning, participating as an advisor to Patrice Hoppenot and his team from 2002 to 2011. In a book to published soon, he reflects on I&P's launch and evolution since 2002.
Patrice Hoppenot founded Investisseurs & Partenaires in 2002… in other words, I&P celebrates the 15th year of its existence! I&P will publish several documents and testimonies to celebrate this anniversary, alongside a short book that I wrote on I&P’s story from 2001 to 2011.
The idea of writing this book came to me when Patrice Hoppenot decided to retire and Jean-Michel Severino took the direction of I&P in 2011. As a close friend of Patrice, I wanted to share the story of I&P’s beginnings.
The story of I&P is indeed quite extraordinary. When he conceived this project, Patrice Hoppenot barely knew Africa. His own experience was mainly about private equity in Europe, and he knew little about development issues in Africa. He was driven however by one key conviction: it was possible for the private sector to successfully invest in African SMEs with an entrepreneurial approach and private equity could be a useful tool to African businesses, at it has been the case in Europe.
Ten years later I&P had become important and attractive enough for one of the key representatives of official development aid, Jean-Michel Severino (who headed the French Development Agency at that time) to take the lead. Today I&P is widely acknowledged as one of the pioneer of SME financing in Africa, but also as one of the first impact investor on the continent. Quite an unusual trajectory for a project conceived by a private equity specialist!
The book to be published in December describes this story step by step, thanks to the dozens of testimonies gathered and the friendly collaboration of the historical actors of I&P.
Patrice Hoppenot did everything he could to transform his first intuition into a durable model and he succeeded: his great idea today boosts entrepreneurship in 15 African countries. It is an exciting success – and the best is yet to come!
Investisseurs & Partenaires was launched in 2002 by Patrice Hoppenot, a renowned private equity professional. He wanted to share his own experience and contribute to the development of a sustainable private sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over a decade, the first fund of I&P (IPDEV1) invested more than 10 million euros in 33 start-ups and small African businesses.
In 2011, Patrice Hoppenot retires and hands over to Jean-Michel Severino, former Executive Director of the French Development Agency (2001-2010). Soon after I&P launches its new pan-African fund, I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs (IPAE) and opens several offices in Africa: in Senegal, Madagascar, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso. In parallel I&P starts an innovative program (IPDEV2) aiming to incubate and sponsor 10 African impact funds in 10 African countries.
To read more, explore our story on I&P's website! ►
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