Our Mali Team through the Mali Investment Facilitation Platform (MIFP) a USAID project, hosted ANDE, in Bamako for a round table on the sub-region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. MIFP has demonstrated that local capital providers and foreign investors are willing to invest in deserving projects in Mali given appropriate support in identifying and structuring these transactions

Gabriel Davies and Lucy Shaw in our Energy Access team are excited to be back in Nigeria for the second Innovation Lab Workshop, to identify new ways for minigrid companies to grow their revenues and reduce costs. The Innovation Lab will launch its first Nigerian prototype appliance finance, this month.

Jake Cusack, our Co-Managing Partner and Frederik Benzel, Principal at our Johannesburg Office teamed up with Pangaea Securities, Zambia to facilitate the investment matchmaking session for agribusinesses and capital providers at the Southern African Trade Seminar in Livingston, Zambia. The Seminar was sponsored by USAID, INTL FCStone and the USAID Southern Africa Trade Hub.

Claudia Masemola, our Investment Analyst, participated in the ANDE South Africa Impact Investing Roundtable. Heather Jackson, CFA, Head of Special Credit, Ashburton Investments and Janice Johnston, Investment Head, Edge Growth; shared their insights on the challenges impact investors face developing viable pipelines, how understanding the PE landscape allows impact investors to exit effectively and the value of PPPs in driving...

Bobby Patel, Senior Associate, was Guest of Honour at the 2018 Speech Day of his alma mater, St. Andrew’s School, Turi. During his speech, he advised his fellow Turians that grades and schooling are just one part of their life. The other part is using the skills they were taught to successfully tackle life’s challenges.

Yesterday, Frederik Benzel, Principal at CrossBoundary Group, sat on the ‘Farming to Feed the Future’ Pitch Fest Panel at The Mandela Washington Fellowship Conference. Six entrepreneurs from across the continent pitched their ideas on how to “farm to feed the future” for potential funding.

Today, Lucy Shaw, Associate, was on a panel on Innovation and Technology Development, at the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network 7th Annual Conference. She discussed the Mini-Grid Innovation Lab, Sub-Saharan Africa's first R&D facility, focusing exclusively on testing business model innovation in the sector.