Vous êtes un entrepreneur africain ? Venez découvrir les outils de financement et d'accompagnement de Digital Africa pour soutenir les activités de votre TPE, PME ou start-up !

La communauté Afrique France entrepreneurs, vous présente Digital Africa- l'initiative d'accompagnement et de financement des PMEs et start-ups africaines.

Ce webinaire est l’occasion de :

• découvrir les services dédiés au développement et à la croissance des entreprises de Digital Africa ;

• connaître les modalités d’accompagnement et de financement de Digital Africa ;

• découvrir le nouveau fonds d’investissement Fuzé de Digital Africa

• échanger sur les opportunités et éventuels freins rencontrés par les entrepreneurs avec les intervenants;

• obtenir plus d’informations sur la communauté d’affaires Afrique-France entrepreneurs

Afrique du Nord / North Africa

ANIMA organise un webinaire sur le sujet « Entrepreneurs de la diaspora tunisienne : quelles opportunités et quels accompagnements ? », le 16 mars 2023 à 9h [GMT+0].

Partagez vos expériences aux côtés de nos invités : 

• Mme Nadia Touil, Sous-Directrice Principale, à la Direction de Promotion Générale et Responsable à la Cellule d’Appui à la CTE – FIPA Tunisia
• Mme Ines Trojette, Secrétaire Générale et responsable du club Finance – ATUGE
• Mme Ibtissem Kerdjani, Responsable de projets – Lab’ess

 Inscrivez-vous 

Ce webinaire donnera la parole aux organismes d’appui des entrepreneurs de la diaspora tunisienne. Ces structures partageront leurs offres d’accompagnement et les opportunités présentes sur le marché dans le cadre d’un projet d’entreprise en Tunisie. 

Ce webinaire est organisé dans le cadre du programme MEET Africa 2 mis en œuvre par Expertise France avec l’appui d’ANIMA Investment Network et financé par l’Union Européenne et AFD – Agence Française de Développement 

France

Bpifrance dédie la troisième édition de la série « Regards sur le Monde » à l’Afrique de l’Ouest.

L'ambition est de décrypter les principaux enjeux autour de la #co-industrialisation au sein de l’Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine.

Au programme : 

1. Tour d’horizon de la situation économique de la région et des perspectives d’évolution du secteur secondaire

2. Identification des domaines et actions prioritaires permettant d’’accélérer la co-industrialisation dans la région

3. Partage d'opportunités de partenariats industriels pour les entreprises désireuses d’accélérer leur développement au sein de l’UEMOA

4. Retour d’expérience d’acteurs de premier plan sur les projets industriels de la zone.

Inscrivez vous dès maintenant pour nous rejoindre le jeudi 09/03 en ligne (10h30 GMT+1)

Regards sur le Monde Afrique de l'Ouest | Bpifrance (livestorm.co)

Afrique de l'Ouest / West Africa

Bpifrance dédie la troisième édition de la série « Regards sur le Monde » à l’Afrique de l’Ouest.

L'ambition est de décrypter les principaux enjeux autour de la #co-industrialisation au sein de l’Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine.

Au programme : 

1. Tour d’horizon de la situation économique de la région et des perspectives d’évolution du secteur secondaire

2. Identification des domaines et actions prioritaires permettant d’’accélérer la co-industrialisation dans la région

3. Partage d'opportunités de partenariats industriels pour les entreprises désireuses d’accélérer leur développement au sein de l’UEMOA

4. Retour d’expérience d’acteurs de premier plan sur les projets industriels de la zone.

Inscrivez vous dès maintenant pour nous rejoindre le jeudi 09/03 en ligne (10h30 GMT+1)

👉 Regards sur le Monde Afrique de l'Ouest | Bpifrance (livestorm.co)

Afrique de l'Est / East Africa

Dear kenyan entrepreneurs, 
 

On behalf of the French embassies in Africa, AFD, Bpifrance, Business France, Digital Africa, Expertise France and Proparco, we welcome you to your new Afrique-France entrepreneurs community!

This community is a unique opportunity to promote your business to members of your community, make contact with your peers, and connect with potential partners or investors.

I will be your point of contact if you have any needs about understanding the platform, creating your profile and tips on how to contact potential partners !

Libreville accueillera prochainement une séquence sur les enjeux autour des forêts et de la biodiversité à l'occasion de deux évènements majeurs pour les entrepreneurs, la société civile et les décideurs politiques.

• One Forest Youth Forum se présente pour les jeunes comme un cadre nouveau, pragmatique et efficace, pour contribuer à amplifier et à renouveler la coopération internationale en faveur des forêts. Pour plus détails sur les modalités de participation, n'hésitez pas à contacter : oneforestyouthforum@gmail.com

Vous aurez également la possibilité de suivre les sessions en live à partir du lundi 27 février

• One Forest Summit est une initiative commune des présidents gabonais et français, se concentrera sur les défis communs rencontrés par les bassins tropicaux. Pour plus de détails : One Forest Summit | One Planet Summit

Hello Brothers and Sisters Entrepreneurs !

🤗 I’m really excited to invite you to take part in this important survey that will help us understand how best to create an Elearning Platform for Africa. Your participation in this survey is completely anonymous and confidential.

🤩 it will take you less than 5 minutes and Your honest responses will help us better understand the needs and expectations of African learners in terms of access to quality educational resources. This will be used to develop an Elearning Platform tailored to the educational needs of African learners.

☺️ We value your feedback and thank you in advance for taking the time to complete this survey.

👉🏽 here the link : https://bit.ly/InveaUserNA 

👏🏾 Also feel free to share it to your network and community

Afrique de l'Est / East Africa

The next big meeting of the Afrique France entrepreneurs community will take place on Febuary 21th in Kenya, at the Nairobi Garage !

The program includes a networking cocktail for Kenyan and French companies, as well as interventions by Olivier Becht, French Minister  in charge of Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness. But also Proparco, Business France, Bpifrance in partnership with Kenyan entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators !

We are absolutely thrilled to meet our Kenyan  and French members ! 

Le mercredi 18 janvier dernier  les équipes de Business France et de Bpifrance ont  présenté es services d’accompagnement de Business France pour les entrepreneurs intéressés par les marchés africains. 

• Marc CAGNARD, Directeur de zone Afrique Subsaharienne, Business France
• Michel BAUZA, Directeur Tunisie & de zone Afrique du Nord, Business France
• Mounir ALHOZ, Responsable du Desk Afrique & Coordinateur des programmes spéciaux, Business France

France

MEET Africa – Le Forum des Entrepreneurs de la Diaspora aura lieu le samedi 11 février 2023, au Palais des Congrès Porte Maillot à Paris.

MEET Africa 2, le Forum est résolument tourné vers l’apport de solutions concrètes et la promotion d’initiatives structurantes pour les acteurs des diasporas africaines installés en Europe et désireux de développer un projet d’affaires en Afrique : mise à disposition d’informations ciblées, mise en relation avec des structures d’accompagnement, accès au financement…

Le mercredi 18 janvier prochain à 10h00 (GMT+1), les équipes de Business France et de Bpifrance présenteront les services d’accompagnement de Business France pour les entrepreneurs intéressés par les marchés africains.

Interviendront lors de ce webinaire :

• Marc CAGNARD, Directeur de zone Afrique Subsaharienne, Business France
• Michel BAUZA, Directeur Tunisie & de zone Afrique du Nord, Business France
• Mounir ALHOZ, Responsable du Desk Afrique & Coordinateur des programmes spéciaux, Business France
• Ann-Marème ATAYI, Cheffe de projet Afrique EuroQuity, Bpifrance

Si vous êtes à la recherche d’opportunités d’accompagnement pour développer de nouveaux partenariats africains ou français, cette rencontre peut être intéressante pour vous. 😊 !

Afrique du Nord / North Africa

Le groupe Agence française de développement (AFD, Proparco, Expertise France et Digital Africa) fête en 2022 son 30^e anniversaire d’activité en Tunisie. A cette occasion, a été organisé un événement le 7 décembre à Tunis pour mettre en avant quelques projets qu’il a soutenu en faveur de la jeunesse et la dynamique entrepreneuriale en Tunisie ainsi que les acteurs qui la portent.

La communauté #AfriqueFranceEntrepreneurs, en partenariat avec PROPARCO, vous invite le Vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 10h00 (GMT+1) , au webinaire de présentation de #Choose Africa - l'initiative d'accompagnement et de financement des #PMEs et #startups africaines du groupe de l'Agence Française de Développement.

🧐 It’s more than 5 years. I’ve been involved in building Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Africa through many programs such as:

✅ Implementing Global Entrepreneurship Network program, Global Entrepreneurship Week, GEN Policy, GEN
✅ Leading Techstars activities like Startup Weekend, Startup Week and Acceleration
✅ Support the development of many Startup through 100startupsco, Ideas4Action, Diaspo4Africa, Isahit, and Shape your Business program.

🤗 I’m really happy and proud to announce you that I’ve been nominated as Finalist for The African Startup Ecosystem Builder Summit & Awards as

🌍 Best Startup Ecosystem Builder in Africa 

Don’t forget to vote 🗳️ : https://asebsummit.com/2022/11/03/startup-ecosystem-builder-award-of-the-year/

You’ll see my full name in the list: Omar Ibn Abdillah.

🙏🏾 Count on you guys, let’s build together the Africa we Want

Hello, My name is Hani Elgebaly and I am the co-founder and CEO of AvidBeam Technologies. We specialize in video analytics for security, saftey and business intelligence using AI deep learning and Big Data and we offer our solutions to smart cities, smart buildings, smart communities, banks, retailers, oil& Gas, public sector, enterprises and any entity using surveillance cameras. We are camera and infrastructure agnostic and our solution is scalable to thousands or more of cameras. I was wondering if anyone in this group works or affiliated with the surveillance business. We are looking to partner with system integrators or solution providers who are keen to expand and build solutions in Africa. We have a good portfolio of home grown products that make us one stop shop,. We also can save significantly on hardware cost required for computing reducing the total cost of ownership for the solution.  Would love to collaborate with like minded peeple in the field in Africa. 

Hello everyone

Thanks Ann-Marème Atayi for inviting me to join

I am here with my colleague Samar Hamdy. We are co-founders of DevisionX that enables Manufacturers/ Businesses to apply AI & Machine vision in solving their daily challenges [such as: Quality Inspection issues] through using "TUBA" AI-Enabling Tool: a NO-Code AutoML Tool helps Manufacturers & Businesses to build their own AI- Machine Vision/Computer Vision App without coding or AI experience.

If you have a use case realted to computer vision and want to give it a try, you can request access from here

Feel free to send me here or connect me via LinkedIn

Afrique du Nord / North Africa

Hello everyone,

First, I'd like to thank Ann-Marème Atayi again for inviting me and for being incredibly friendly in the introduction call we had recently!

Who I am: 

I am the founder & CEO of LoDeep.

What LoDeep offers:

We help students find someone to study with, exchange help and share resources.

What we are looking for now:

We are trying to raise a seed-round of 100 000$ to help us consolidate our position in the local Tunisian market and start expanding to Europe.

So if you're an investor who's looking to invest in a very promising EdTech company, please do reach out!

And if you're an EdTech founder, and if you think there's some room for collaboration with LoDeep, just drop a message!

Link to the platform:

https://lodeep.com

Link to the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWCqQnNUPuE

Looking forward to getting to know you more!

In the program of the event Inspire and Connect Méditerranée: several workshops, speeches by experts and project leaders, as well as sequences of B2B meetings to promote new sustainable and concrete partnerships.

The inspire scene
🤝 To highlight Mediterranean, European and African entrepreneurs and actors; but also to promote a positive and ambitious agenda, focused on partnership

ICM-media
🎤 To amplify the message of entrepreneurs at a regional and continental level; and highlight project leaders from the region, Europe and Africa

Agoras

👍 Offering a focus on strategic themes for the region; business orientation proposal by giving the floor to experts and partners

Innovation corner

🚀 Highlight innovative companies from both shores of the Mediterranean with a focus on startups and deeptech

For more info or to register as a speaker: am.atayi@ext.bpifrance.fr

💡 For the past 40 yeats, Proparco has been involved in financing and supporting companies and financial institutions to strengthen the private sector's contribution to achieving the SDGs. In 2020, Proparco deployed EUR +2bn in annual commitments, including EUR 755m for African projects.

🚀 Since the launch of the Choose Africa initiative, the AFD group, of which Proparco is a part, has supported start-ups, VSEs and SMEs in Africa. The commitment amounts to EUR 3.5 billion for the period 2018-2022.

⚙️ Proparco's support services include multi-sector & geographical expertise, an ability to structure complex projects and risk management, as well as support towards better environmental and social practices

🎯 Proparco has various financial tools including loans, equity, quasi-equity, investment funds, guarantees, technical support, delegated funds and concessional financing

My name is Mahider Birhanu and I am the General Manager at Dumerso Industrial trading PLC. We are an Ethiopian based company that started in 2014 with the inspiration of exporting sepciality coffee from the Yirgacheffee area and we have been active in the production, processing and exporting of the coffee.

We are looking for potential business partners. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Email: mahdersemu@gmail.com 

 📢📆 After the success of the 2021 edition in Abidjan,  Inspire&Connect Méditerranée event will take place in Casablanca on July 4, 2022!

🤝 Gather, federate and create communities of interest: from Casablanca to Tunis, via Cairo, Istanbul or Abidjan, a meeting for the actors who contribute to the economic and financial landscape of the region. This edition invites collective reflection on the challenges of tomorrow, positioning the Mediterranean shores as catalysts for projects between Africa and Europe.

🚀 This day will highlight audacity and the spirit of entrepreneurship by bringing together actors and project leaders in the region.

📢 On the program? - workshops, interventions by experts and project leaders, as well as sequences of B2B meetings to promote new, sustainable and concrete partnerships.

📆 Book your July 4, 2022 already, we are waiting for you!

🚀 Congratulations to SAYNA, a Malagasy digital platform dedicated to employment and education, which has just raised a financing round of EUR 600,000 from the VC Launch Africa Ventures fund, the Orange Ventures corporate fund and the MAIC investors Club. 🚀

💡 Created in 2018 by @Matina Razafimahefa, Sayna is an edtech, crowdsourcing and video game platform for learning digital professions that automatically connects its learners to profitable IT micro-tasks. To find out more about this member of the Afrique France entrepreneurs community: https://www.sayna.io/

Hi all, my name is Mohab, I am the co-founder and CEO of Amanleek, Egypt's largest online insurance platform. Its a pleasure to be here with everyone else and would love to connect with similar insurtechs and fintechs. 

Regards,

Are you a European startup, seeking to expand in the African Market? 
Apply for yhe ENRICH in Africa 3-month soft-landing program!
Two weeks compulsory in Cape Town and 10 flexible weeks.
Apply before 8 July 2022: FSAT Labs Softlanding Program - Powered by Enrich in Africa. (google.com)

ENRICH in Africa - EiA is a project funded by the European Commission and launched with top incubators & accelerators in Africa and in Europe. The goal is to leverage a strong network of incubators and accelerators to support their start-ups scaling and expanding their business in both continents.
#africa #innovation #startup

Hi all,

My name is Ahmed Hamza and I am the Co-Founder and CEO of OLYFO. We are a Tunisian company that started back in June 2020 and we do specialize in the production of Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Over the last year, we have successfully exported to 5 EU Countries, won two quality Awards in Canada and UK, and have secured investment to expand our bottling and storage capacities.
We are looking for partners to introduce our products into Africa and France and I am available to speak via email: sales@olyfo.com
or WhatsApp: +21625217199

Do not hesitate to reach out!
I also invite you to take a look at our website through this link: www.olyfo.com 
 

Dear entrepreneurs and dear partners,  

 I am so thrilled to join the Afrique France Entrepreneurs community as the new Community Lead! I am excited to meet you all and to begin the animation of our services  😊

  As you all know, Afrique-France entrepreneurs aims to promote partnerships between African and French companies on in a peer-to-peer logic.  On this matter, I strongly encourage you to share your activities, ask questions, participate in discussions and become an active member of this growing community.  😊

Feel free to contact me at am.atayi@ext.bpifrance.fr if you have any questions, remarks or simply if you would like to exchange on your activities or quest for financial and business partnerships !