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Français A crowdfunding campaign to finance PhileoL's new project in MadagascarEntrepreneurs | 23/10/2015 The crowdfunding platform Blue Bees, dedicated to agriculture, agroecology and sustainable food system, has recently launched a campaign to support the Madagascan company PhileoL. The objective is to finance the annual collect of castor oil seeds, ensuring stable income for 5,... |
 I&P selected for the ImpactAssets 50 for the second consecutive yearNews | 21/10/2015 Investisseurs & Partenaires has been selected for the ImpactAssets 50 2015 (IA 50), a free, publically available online resource for impact investors and their advisors. The IA 50, now in its fifth year, is the first publically available database of private debt and equity impact... |
 IOT finalizes a first sale of sea cucumbersEntrepreneurs | 19/10/2015 The Madagascan company IOT, founded in 2012 by Jaco Chan Kit Waye and Olivier Méraud and specialized in the breeding of sea cucumbers, has recently closed its first exportation. IOT has developped, in partnership with a local team of scientists, a new growing technique of... |
 I&P organise 4th training seminar dedicated to portfolio entrepreneursNews | 13/10/2015 From 13 to 15 October, more than 50 entrepreneurs will be gathered for the 4th edition of I&P’s annual training seminar, dedicated to the partner companies. The seminar will address the key issues related to employees’ recruitment and loyalty, based on the following question: how to... |
 2 months before COP21 : Sustainable development issues in Sub-Saharan AfricaIntelligence & Analysis | 08/10/2015The 195 States participating to the COP21, held in Paris in December 2015, had to submit their greenhouse-gas emission reduction target. The vast majority of African countries have respected the deadline, set on October 1st. The cost of climate change for the continent... |
 The microfinance network ACEP develops its CSR policyEntrepreneurs | 03/10/2015 The microfinance network ACEP Africa Group is developping a formal CSR policy and social performance measurement tools. First developed in the ACEP institutions based in Niger, Burkina Fasob and Cameroon, this policy... |
 I&P participates to ANDE annual conferenceNews | 01/10/2015 From September 30 to October 2, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) helds its annual conference, targeted at senior-level executives of ANDE member organizations, including leading investors, capacity development providers, foundations, banks,... |
 "Three young entrepreneurs who are transforming Africa" with K. Nakoulima (NEST)Entrepreneurs | 28/09/2015 HEC Alumni organizes, in partnership with Okan Consulting, a serie of conferences dedicated to Africa. The conference held on September 29 will focus on "three entrepreneurs who are transforming Africa". Among them stands Khadidiatou Nakoulima, the founder and director of the clinic NEST... |
I&P welcomes two pioneer companies in its portfolioNews | 25/09/2015The €54 million I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs (IPAE) fund, managed by Investisseurs & Partenaires, has recently invested, as minority stakeholders, in two companies based in West Africa. Both of them demonstrate the great innovation capacity of African SMEs, as they play a pioneering role... |
 Sub-Saharan Africa: a major emerging demographic powerIntelligence & Analysis | 15/09/2015 According to the last demographic forecasts, Sub-Saharan Africa will count 2.5 billion inhabitants by 2050. As underlined by the UN Report Revision of World Population Report, large demographic powers are emerging: Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia will... |