“There should be more collaboration between different actors, up to the last link in the chain, the entrepreneurs.” For Sheilah BIRGEN, specialist in the pan-African tech ecosystem, AfCFTA is a great opportunity to promote “made in Africa” solutions and young entrepreneurs. With certain conditions…
Orange Digital Ventures, now Orange Ventures, has a budget of 350 million euros to invest in technology companies. At the heart of their target, Africa. Explanations with Grégoire de PADIRAC, Principal at Orange Ventures Middle East & Africa.
EuroQuity, a networking platform for companies, investors and support structures was created in 2008 by Bpifrance. It is a founding member of Africa Next. A community of players committed to co-investing in innovative companies in hyper-growth, bringing together French and English-speaking venture capitalists from Europe and Africa – who select projects on the basis of e-pitches. With more than a hundred investors present for the last session, the attractiveness of Africa is confirmed… and diversified. Gilles LE COCGUEN, Director of EuroQuity provides explanations.
Specialist in training, employment and entrepreneurship issues in Africa, Didier ACOUETEY, founder of AfricSearch and the Africa SME Champions Forum platform, looks back on the “resilience” of African companies in 2020 and analyzes the African technological ecosystem.
