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“Supporting Made-in-Africa digital innovations”
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Digital Africa publishes its white paper entitled ‘Supporting Made-in-Africa digital innovations’. Building on recent successes such as its Bridge program, Digital Africa is looking to move away from its initial non-profit model with a refreshed governance structure, a new business model and the ambition to get closer to the private sector. As part of its white paper, Digital Africa also releases its updated roadmap for 2022-2025. After 4 years of existence, Digital Africa, a €130 million pan-African, European and French public-funded organization committed to boosting African start-ups, is reinventing its model to support the growth of its
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activities and better serve the needs of African tech entrepreneurs. To do so, Digital Africa has joined Proparco (investment arm of the Agence Française de Développement – AFD), bringing additional expertise to their
existing investment programs. Digital Africa would be positioned as the continuum to Proparco, focusing on early stage startups. The objective would be for Digital Africa to be able to deploy direct seed financing capa-
