Sinergi Burkina impact fund, dedicated to the financing and support of small and medium-sized enterprises in Burkina Faso, is providing five new seed funding through two programmes implemented by I&P and financed by the European Union (I&P Acceleration in Sahel) and the United States Agency for International Development (Partnering To Accelerate Entrepreneurship initiative).
Investisseurs & Partenaires is pleased to announce the launch of I&P Acceleration in Sahel, a €15.5 million program financed by the European Union to support the growth and development of 300 start-ups and small businesses in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin.
Despite a global context strongly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, the fund I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs 2 (IPAE 2) continues its investment activity and welcomes in its portfolio a new Malagasy company, SOAFIARY, operating in the agro-food sector.
A first investment in Madagascar for IPAE 2
I&P was one of the founding signatory of the Operating Principles for Impact Management, a market standard for the impact investing sector, defined by the International Finance Corporation.
After being imagined and incubated by the AFD Campus du Développement, the SIBC will be piloted over the next three years by I&P Conseil and its partners - African Management Institute, ScaleChanger and StartupBRICS - to accelerate its deployment, particularly in Africa. Registrations for this fourth edition, which will respond to the challenges of societal resilience and innovation accentuated by the Covid-19 crisis, are open:
As an impact investor dedicated to African SMEs, I&P bears a specific responsibility in the response to be brought to the economic crisis that is hitting the African continent, perhaps even more than the health crisis.
I&P is pleased to announce the publication of the book Bâtisseurs d'Afrique, published by Editions Eyrolles (in French only for now). Its author, Nathalie Madeline, met with 11 entrepreneurs accompanied by I&P, and traces their different journeys. In this uncertain time due to the Covid-19 crisis, I&P is convinced that these testimonies are more relevant than ever.
The impact investment fund I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs, the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO) and ACEP-International are joining forces to create ACEP Group, a leader in microfinancing in Africa and already present in 3 countries (Niger, Burkina Faso and Madagascar).
The creation of the group was made official on Thursday 27 February 2020 following a press meeting with Thierry Perreau of ACEP International, Jean-Michel Severino of I&P and Jessica Schicks of BIO.
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