On November 17th and 18th, EVPA holds its annual conference in Berlin. Under the theme “Collaborating for Social Impact: the Next 10 Years”, the conference covers various topics, from crowdfunding to impact measurement and from exits to government regulations.
More than 300 African SMEs and 100 representatives of financial institutions are coming together these November 11th and 12th for the Africa SME Champions Forum. Investisseurs & Partenaires’ President, Jean-Michel Severino, takes part to a conference focused on SME’s financing.
Investisseurs & Partenaires is very pleased to announce that it is has been selected this year for the ImpactAssets 50, an annually updated list that has become since its inception in 2011 a highly valuable source of information on the impact investing sector.
IPAE has just made its first disbursements at Trianon in Gabon, Voltacars Rental Services (VRS) in Ghana and the English
Nicholas Colloff, Executive Director of the Argidius Foundation & Randall Kempner, CEO of the Aspen Network of Developement Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
"ANDE and the Argidius Foundation are both active supporters of development entrepreneurs. ANDE contributes to focus efforts and raise awareness on the challenges incurred by supporting SGBs around the world.
On the brink of its 1st closing, IPDEV 2 is awarded a 1 million EUR grant from the Argidius-ANDE Finance Challenge
Chairman of the Convergences annual forum, Jean-Michel Severino was heard as moderator on today's opening conference. This second day of the event broke out with an inspiring gathering of high-level speakers :
Etienne Saint-Sernin is an engineer, specialized in renewable energy. His background in the sector includes research and developement, technical support and market consultancy for SMEs, NGOs ans investors, including Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), both in Europe and Africa.
Every year our ESG/Impacts team collects and agregates a series of impact indicators from our I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs portfolio investees (11 companies this year). Collected figures will serve a global study to measure economic, environmental, social and governance impacts generated by our partners, SMEs located in Sub saharan Africa.
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