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Meet the partners

giz – Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

DEUTSCHE GESELL­SCHAFT FUR INTERNA­TIONALE ZUSAMMEN­ARBEIT (GIZ) GMBH

As a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, GIZ is dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world. It has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas.

CIVITTA EESTI AS

CIVITTA is providing innovation services for SMEs and start-ups, helping them to grow and scale; universities, connecting research with business and helping to commercialize R&D, and supports the development of innovation communities and ecosystems nationally and globally.

EUROPEAN BUSINESS ANGELS NETWORK

EBAN is the pan-European representative for the early-stage investor community. It has experience in EU projects, in which it brings its core competences in engaging, coaching, and professionalizing angels and entrepreneurs.

EUROPEAN BUSINESS AND INNOVATION CENTRE NETWORK

EBN is a not-for-profit that serves a pan-European, global community of people that use innovative business as a driver for regional (economic) development. It provides access to and connects a global partner network of executives, industry leaders and best-of-class innovators of all kinds.

ENABEL, BELGISCH ONTWIKKELINGS­AGETSCHAP

Enabel is the Belgian development agency with a mission to implement and coordinate the Belgian international development policy. It is a public agency, which manages development projects for the account of the Belgian Government and other donors.

AGENCE FRANCAISE D'EXPERTISE TECHNIQUE INTERNATIONALE

Expertise France is the French public agency for international technical assistance. It aims at contributing to sustainable development based on solidarity and inclusiveness, mainly through enhancing the quality of public policies within the partner countries.

FundingBox Accelerator Sp. z o.o.

FundingBox is the go-to platform for innovators in the quest for funding and investors and corporates hunting for the next unicorn. It supports entrepreneurs at every stage of their growth journey with adapted public and private funding opportunities.

Steinbeis Europa Zentrum

SEZ’s core competences are supporting companies, universities and research organisations in submitting and implementing cross-border innovation projects, by identifying and selecting appropriate funding and innovation programmes.

ABAN FOUNDATION

At its core, ABAN exists to educate angel investment groups, promote the creation of new Angel Investor networks, create a contact point for emerging and existing networks, and support members in building African early stage investing ecosystems.

AFRICAN TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION HUBS INITIATIVE

AfriLabs is a network organization supporting technology and innovation hubs across Africa. It supports the growth of these hubs who in turn support their communities made up of innovators, entrepreneurs, stimulating economic growth and social development in Africa.

DIGITAL AFRICA

Launched with the mission to equip African tech entrepreneurs with capabilities to design and scale-up ground-breaking innovations for the real economy, Digital Africa is an initiative bringing together partners of all nationalities like startups, technology clusters, incubators and VCs.

INNOVATION FOR POLICY FOUNDATION

i4Policy is a not-for-profit organization that supports public policy co-creation at scale. It has developed a new ontology for policy-making innovation (the i4Policy process) and has pioneered new methodologies and tools for deliberative and participatory policymaking processes.

VC4AFRICA BV

VC4A strengthens the global startup community by connecting entrepreneurs creating innovative and scalable businesses with the knowledge, network and funding they require to succeed.

SMART AFRICA

SMART Africa is a bold and innovative commitment from African Heads of State and Government to accelerate sustainable socio-economic development on the continent, ushering Africa into a knowledge economy through affordable access to Broadband and usage of Information and Communications Technologies.