I&P grows its activities in anglophone Africa and makes its first investment in Nigeria
News | 30/01/2020  The I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs 2 (IPAE 2) fund welcomes two new African companies to its portfolio, thus pursuing an active investment rhythm, less than two years after its launch. Fully in line with the fund’s mandate, these new investments will strengthen I&P’s footprint in...

3 questions to... Frédéric Wybo, Director of Ultramaille
Entrepreneurs | 29/01/2020  Based in Madagascar for nearly 30 years, Frédéric Wybo is the founder and current CEO of Ultramaille, a Malagasy company specialized in mid- and high-end fashion knit wear. Ultramaille has been supported by I&P since 2016, through its fund I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs 1. The team...

Publication of the Report of the Regional Economic Outlook of IMF
Intelligence & Analysis | 19/12/2019  What are the economic prospects in sub-Saharan Africa? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) answers these questions in its semi-annual report on the Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa and presents two key themes: competition and competitiveness in product markets and...

I&P Conseil participates in the 3rd edition of the Social & Inclusive Business Camp
News | 10/12/2019  Organized from November 30 to December 5 in Marseille by the French Development Agency in partnership with the EMERGING Valley summit, the 3rd edition of the Social & Inclusive Business Camp (SIBC) brought together a group of 60 social entrepreneurs to support them in...

I&P launches the program I&P Acceleration Technologies, with AFD's support
News | 04/12/2019  Investisseurs & Partenaires is launching I&P Acceleration Technologies, an acceleration program dedicated to promising African digital start-ups. The program is one of six initiatives funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), which is mobilising €15 million under...

VATEL launches its new master's degree in Ecotourism Management
Entrepreneurs | 27/11/2019  Vatel Madagascar launches its new master's degree in Ecotourism Management   Vatel Madagascar is currently the only hotel school in Madagascar that offers a Master's degree in ecotourism. The Ecotourism Master's degree is structured around 5 poles: - marketing to train...

HaiRun Technology CEO Ranto Adriambolololona, named best entrepreneur of the Malagasy diaspora in France
Entrepreneurs | 20/11/2019  HaiRun Technology's CEO, Ranto Adriambololona, was named the best entrepreneur of the Malagasy diaspora in France, at the 2019 ZAMA Awards, held on October 11th 2019 in Paris. Ranto Andriambololona was also elected Secretary General of the Club Africain des Entrepreneurs during the...

I&P's quaterly Newsletter is published
News | 07/11/2019  I&P's quarterly newsletter is online! As usual, the newsletter covers the main news of the last few months: the deployment of the program Afrique Créative, the new members of the team, the latest news from the companies in the portfolio (with an exclusive interview with the co-...

Afrique Créative : the entrepreneurs selected and reunited in Burkina Faso for a first bootcamp
News | 25/10/2019  The winners of the Afrique Créative programme, funded by the French Development Agency and implemented by a consortium composed by I&P, AFRICALIA, Zhu Culture Officiel andBAYIMBA, have been officially selected. The call for applications, which closed on 15 August, identified...

Entrepreneurs' portrait: Matthias Papet et Eric Genetre, co-founders of CoinAfrique
Entrepreneurs | 23/10/2019  As one of the first investments of the IPAE 2 fund, CoinAfrique is a 100% mobile community platform designed to buy and sell products simply in French-speaking Africa. Created in 2015, CoinAfrique currently has more than 1.4 million downloads and approximately 500,000 active monthly users...

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