Investisseurs & Partenaires received a special prize in the category ''small and mid cap'' awarded by SWEN Capital Partners during their annual event ''ESG Best Practices Honours"
Each year since 2012 the SWEN team has been analyzing and measuring how extra-financial criteria are integrated and implemented at both in the GPs’ investment process as well as at the underlying companies’ level, both for Private Equity and Infrastructure.
Max de Font-Réaulx is the CEO of Théorème, a consulting firm dedicated to the management of business risks. As a specialist of health insurance issues in Africa, he works with several I&P's investees so as to help them set up or improve their healthcare programs.
In an editorial drafted for our latest newsletter, he reflects on the issues at stake and the progress made since 2015.
Teranga Capital, an impact fund dedicated to finance and support Senegalese small and medium businesses, sponsored by I&P, has realized its first investment and welcomes OuiCarry in its portfolio.
Jean-Michel Severino and all the team of Investisseurs & Partenaires wish you the best for 2017!
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• Editorial signed by Jean-Michel Severino
In 2017, Investisseurs & Partenaires is celebrating its fifteen years of activity. A good opportunity to reflect on the creation and evolution of this innovative project, always driven by the will to contribute to the emergence of a sustainable private sector in sub-Saharan Africa.
Pierre Daubert manages the art gallery Angalia, specialized in African contemporary art. He is part of I&P's adventure since the very beginning, participating as an advisor to Patrice Hoppenot and his team from 2002 to 2011. In a book to published soon, he reflects on I&P's launch and evolution since 2002.
Patrice Hoppenot founded Investisseurs & Partenaires in 2002… in other words, I&P celebrates the 15th year of its existence! I&P will publish several documents and testimonies to celebrate this anniversary, alongside a short book that I wrote on I&P’s story from 2001 to 2011.
The idea of writing this book came to me when Patrice Hoppenot decided to retire and Jean-Michel Severino took the direction of I&P in 2011. As a close friend of Patrice, I wanted to share the story of I&P’s beginnings.
The story of I&P is indeed quite extraordinary. When he conceived this project, Patrice Hoppenot barely knew Africa. His own experience was mainly about private equity in Europe, and he knew little about development issues in Africa. He was driven however by one key conviction: it was possible for the private sector to successfully invest in African SMEs with an entrepreneurial approach and private equity could be a useful tool to African businesses, at it has been the case in Europe.
Ten years later I&P had become important and attractive enough for one of the key representatives of official development aid, Jean-Michel Severino (who headed the French Development Agency at that time) to take the lead. Today I&P is widely acknowledged as one of the pioneer of SME financing in Africa, but also as one of the first impact investor on the continent. Quite an unusual trajectory for a project conceived by a private equity specialist!
The book to be published in December describes this story step by step, thanks to the dozens of testimonies gathered and the friendly collaboration of the historical actors of I&P.
Patrice Hoppenot did everything he could to transform his first intuition into a durable model and he succeeded: his great idea today boosts entrepreneurship in 15 African countries. It is an exciting success – and the best is yet to come!
Investisseurs & Partenaires was launched in 2002 by Patrice Hoppenot, a renowned private equity professional. He wanted to share his own experience and contribute to the development of a sustainable private sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over a decade, the first fund of I&P (IPDEV1) invested more than 10 million euros in 33 start-ups and small African businesses.
In 2011, Patrice Hoppenot retires and hands over to Jean-Michel Severino, former Executive Director of the French Development Agency (2001-2010). Soon after I&P launches its new pan-African fund, I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs (IPAE) and opens several offices in Africa: in Senegal, Madagascar, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso. In parallel I&P starts an innovative program (IPDEV2) aiming to incubate and sponsor 10 African impact funds in 10 African countries.
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With over 80 speakers and 600 delegates from more than 30 countries across the world attending, the GIIN Investor Forum on 7-8 December is the landmark event for anyone involved in impact investment or interested to engage with the industry.
Jean-Michel Severino, President of Investisseurs & Partenaires, and Emilie Debled, PR and Business Development Director, were in Amsterdam to attend the conference.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) gathered on November 30 in Dakar to celebrate the new partnership, announced last October, that consists in launching an innovative impact investing and entrepreneurship acceleration program in Sénégal, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
I&P contributes to the Global Entrepreneurship Week (November 14-18 2016), the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and entrepreneurs who launch startups, bring new ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. Following the launch of the new partnership with USAID, I&P published an article on GEW’s platform: “Accelerating African Entrepreneurship through Local Impact Investing”.
Spark and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) present the 4th IGNITE Conference 2016: Tackling Instability, Radicalisation and Forced Migration.
This year’s conference focuses on how we can tackle root causes of instability, radicalization and forced migration in Africa, the EU and the Middle East, with special attention on the role of entrepreneurship, higher education and leadership in fragile states.
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