JM Severino quoted by Reuters about investment opportunities in Africa
In The Press | 14/04/2014(Reuters) - Three years after disputed elections led to bloodshed, Ivory Coast has emerged as one of the most exciting opportunities for private equity investors in Africa, with a dynamic workforce keen to put a decade of turmoil behind it, a senior investor said on Friday.Jean-Michel...

I&P's 5th Newsletter is now available
News | 11/04/2014Read Newsletter N°5 / April 2014  Edito : Joan Bardeletti, author of Les Grands Moyens                  "I am a photojournalist, and passionate about the African continent. I find a way to express myself and investigate through images; my...

CDS Crowdfunding Project now on line on Kiva
Entrepreneurs | 02/04/2014 Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P)  just released on Kiva, a webplatform for participative finance, a funding campaign for CDS, a Mauritanian company in IPDEV’s portfolio since 2010 and managed by Sidi Khalifou.I&P has partnered with Kiva, the US-based crowdfunding...

Béchir Malum, author of I&P's pictures database, exhibited in Arles
News | 31/03/2014Béchir Malum's works will be exhibited on next April 1st to 15th at the Espace Van Gogh in Arles. His paintings will be exhibited as well as some of the photographs he shot in the companies of I&P's portfolio. Mauritanian artist Oumar Laball will share the event, in a joint introduction to...

JM Severino spoke at the 1st Africa SMB Forum in Casablanca on March 12th
News | 24/03/2014Investisseurs & Partenaires took part to the Africa SMB Forum through the speech given by JM Severino in Casablanca on the opening ceremony of the 1st Africa SMB Forum called “How to invest in Africa”. This first meeting was held by the Africa SMB platform created in 2012 by Dogad Dogoui, a...

Kawtal merges with Sagex, an IPDEV investee company in Cameroon
Entrepreneurs | 19/03/2014Investisseurs & Partenaires gets into Kawtal Ndmeri’s capital thanks to its merger with Sagex, a company of which I&P is a shareholder since 2009. Both work on the rural lands of the Wassandé site which was conceded by Cameroon’s state.Kawtal Ndmeri responds to an important demand on the...

CAT Logistics, operating partner of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Mali
Entrepreneurs | 19/03/2014CAT Logistics (transport, Mali) has been for the past few months carrying transportation and logistics missions between Ivory Coast and Mali within the framework of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Mali. This contract was signed in partnership with two other local companies CAT...

I&P joins the AMIC
News | 18/03/2014Investisseurs & Partenaires is now a member of the Association Malagasy des Investisseurs en Capital (Malagasy association for private equity investors). This 10-member group is headed by Geoffrey Tassinari (Madagascar Development Partners) and ought to promote a solid financial sector in...

What is « impact investment » according to the GIIN ?
Intelligence & Analysis | 04/03/2014"Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Impact investments can be made in both emerging and developed markets, and target a range of returns from below market...

O. Lafourcade in Addis Ababa for the 1st African Philanthropy Forum
News | 26/02/2014Olivier Lafourcade, chairman of IPDEV took part to the first edition of The African Philanthropy Forum held in Ethiopia on February 24th and 25th. This meeting sponsored by the Global Philanthropy Forum gathered the most famous philanthropy actors (The Tony Elumelu Foundation, The Rockfeller...

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