Investisseurs & Partenaires

Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) is a Paris-based impact investment group, established in 2002, focusing on African Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). With a team of approximately forty professionals across Paris and seven African offices, I&P provides long-term financing, strategic, managerial, and technical support to SMEs, fostering local value creation and job generation. Since inception, I&P has invested in over 90 companies across 16 African countries and various sectors, generating significant social, environmental, and governance impact. The group manages four pan-African funds totaling €135 million and sponsors five African impact funds, demonstrating its commitment to African development through impact investing.

Nouss Bih

Investment Manager

Sébastien Boyé

Chief Investment Officer and Executive

Jérémy Hajdenberg

Co-CEO and Member of the Executive Board

Past deals in Benin

CoinAfrique

Corporate Round in 2018
CoinAfrique is a Senegalese startup founded in 2014 with additional offices in Benin, Ivory Coast, and France. It operates a mobile application for classified advertisements, primarily serving Francophone Africa. The platform facilitates the buying and selling of second-hand goods, connecting users to make quality deals through their phones.

CoinAfrique

Series A in 2018
CoinAfrique is a Senegalese startup founded in 2014 with additional offices in Benin, Ivory Coast, and France. It operates a mobile application for classified advertisements, primarily serving Francophone Africa. The platform facilitates the buying and selling of second-hand goods, connecting users to make quality deals through their phones.

Tincy Boulangerie

Private Equity Round in 2015
Tincy Boulangerie is an industrial bakery that produces and distributes bread to consumers in Cotonou. It distributes its product through a shop, a network of 24 kiosks, more than 50 shopkeepers and professionals from hostelry and restauration sectors. The bakery is launched in 2009. Initially conceived as a simple marketing exercise, the project proved to be a real success. In 2010, the turnover of the bakery exceeded the one of the consulting firm. Gatien Adjaboni is deeply involved in this new activity and has notably launched the National Association of Bakers of Benin, which gathers a dozen of professionals and represents to this day the only union in the sector.

CAT Logistics Niger

Venture Round in 2010
CAT LOGISTICS performs customs clearance and freight transport. The company manages goods and shipping from their arrival in one of the sub-regional ports directly to the client. It has subsidiaries in the three coastal countries of the region: Cotonou in Benin, Tema in Ghana and Lome in Togo. CAT LOGISTICS has experienced very rapid growth in business volume since 2008, supported by major contracts including AREVA and the World Food Program (WFP). It operates in a particularly buoyant market with oil and mining large-scale investments. It is the only Nigerian-founded company of this size that remains independent from international firms. In 2013-2014, CAT partnered with the UN for the peace keeping mission in Mali. The company loaded equipment, vehicles and over goods from Abidjan port in Ivory Coast to the Niger River and Gao in Mali.

Carotech Bénin

Venture Round in 2009
CAROTECH Benin produces outside tiles, pavement blocks and other construction cement-based inputs. These are processed without any thermal energy. Carotech’s sector of activity is lifted by a swelling urban expansion in Benin and various state programs to renovate public infrastructures. The products are addressed to a diversified clientele: individuals, public collectivities, private companies.

Nomad

Venture Round in 2009
NoMAD (Le Nouveau Modèle Africain de Distribution), imports goods and offers a wholesale self-service to professionals in Benin. Nomad is now the main provider for traditional groceries and local minimarkets. In 2008, Nomad signed a master-franchise agreement with the French distribution group Casino. Since then, it undertakes the brand implementation in local stores in Benin. Nomad found its place in a market shared between family monopoles destined to the upper-class and the expatriates on one hand and informal corner shops on the other.
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