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Published date:
  • 6 August 2020
Author: Digital Africa

Good Practice – The Africa Next Community for the promotion of co-investment and financing of African startups

Africa Next | BPIFrance | Co-investment | Cooptation | Digital Africa | Fundings
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African startups need financial support for their growth and full expansion. The Africa Next Community creates the right environment for this support. An initiative of Digital Africa and BPIFrance.

In order to enable African companies and technologies to better develop, Digital Africa and BPIFrance have launched Africa Next. This vast community of financing and co-investment held a videoconference on July 16, 2020 and brought together several investors, accelerators, and innovators around the same issue: the development of African startups.

Africa Next's founding members

"Helping African businesses to develop and become a global reference"

The objective of the community is to highlight African companies with high internationalization and growth potential and to accelerate their fundraising. But also to develop co-investment, co-optation by trusted third parties and to give African startups the benefit of investors' experience in other markets.

According to Stéphan-Éloïse GRAS, Executive Director of Digital Africa, "The Africa Next Community is a service for investors and innovators. Its objective is to help the African business and technology ecosystem to develop and become a global reference."

More than 50% of startups close in Africa within ten years due to lack of financing

The fact is that more than half of African startups close down in less than ten years of activity for lack of financing. A survey conducted by Weetracker reveals that 54.20% of African startups have closed between 2010 and 2018. The main reasons given for these closures are mainly the lack of external funding and lack of experience. In addition, there is a lack of market (the majority of start-ups are based on a new idea), low demand and competition.

A springboard for co-investment and cooptation financing

The Africa Next Community presents itself as a real springboard to solve the failure of African businesses due to lack of funds and lack of experience.

We believe that sharing knowledge will help the continent to emerge as a hub of innovation.

said Stéphan-Éloïse GRAS. Tweet

During the first webconference, three African start-ups were presented to investors and other actors. They are MaxiCash, a money transfer solution, GoMyCode evolving in the digital transformation of organizations and Poa! Internet, a startup active in bridging the digital divide on the continent.

Three African start-ups presented their solution during July session

A new e-pitch session is planned for community players between October 1st and 15th. This session will be "open to more international investors" said Gilles Le Cocguen, Director of EuroQuity at BPIFrance.

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