Africa Offers Multifarious Opportunities to Invest
Investors looking for business chances in Africa can seek support in the selected country – or engage a service provider with a wide range of offers. Africa Events Limited (AEL) and its sister company African Investments Limited (www.africaninvestments.co) operate three business platforms matching Africa’s business, trade and investment opportunities at scale, the companies pointed out on their homepages.
AFSIC – Investing in Africa, “perhaps Africa’s most important investor event” – takes place annually in London. “It is attended physically by many of Africa’s largest investors, most significant companies, and Africa’s leading Regional and National Trade and Investment Promotion Agencies,“ AEL informed. AFSIC African Investments Dashboard, a fintech platform “originating Africa’s largest and most attractive investment opportunities and matching them to regulated institutional investors with a mandate to invest in Africa”. Africa Business Opportunities Dashboard, a fintech platform matching business, trade, and investment opportunities across Africa covering all business products, sectors, countries in Africa and multiple business objectives. “Customers joining the Africa Business Opportunities Dashboard join one of Africa’s most dynamic business communities.”
According to AEL, these platforms won the 2022 Global Salesforce Innovation Award for Financial Services. “Salesforce is the 60th largest listed company in the world, and one of the leading tech companies globally.” As underlined, Africa Events Limited works with major National Trade and Investment Promotion Agencies, and Governments to promote African business links. “As an example in support of Prosper Africa goals of increasing two-way trade and investment between the United States and Africa, Africa Events Limited has been engaged to significantly increase US exports to Africa, as well as to assist building new supply chains from Africa to the US. Prosper Africa is a whole-of government initiative that leverages the services and resources of 17 US Government Agencies,” the company gave account.
The event AFSIC – Investing in Africa
“AFSIC – Investing in Africa” (October 7-9, 2024, in London) is the “largest annual Africa investment conference taking place outside Africa”. According to the organizers, the conference and expo would strongly focus on results: making African investment decisions, originating and executing transactions, and raising debt or equity capital were the key objectives for delegates attending AFSIC. The program “is designed to provide delegates with multiple opportunities to access the best African investments, whether through presentations from many of the most experienced Africa investors, or through attending the many formal and informal networking sessions during the event.”
More than 350 speakers and 1,500 investors, dealmakers and business leaders were expected to attend this year’s event, the organizers said on their homepage. The event would “showcase the most attractive Africa investment opportunities from around 40 African countries, representing all regions in the continent, as well as country sessions and sector-focused workshops that would allow a deep dive into a wide range of African investment opportunities in Africa’s most exciting economies, as well as profiling the best Africa investors”.
Activator HQ: Supporting entrepreneurs
As described on its homepage, Activator HQ is a market intelligence and capacity development platform “that supports entrepreneurs with the insights, training, and guidance they need to succeed in Africa’s promising (but difficult) markets”. As emphasized, it “actively tracks Africa’s Top 100 Business Opportunities”. An example of the company’s offer spectrum is “Waste & Recycling Business Ideas for 2024: Africa’s top opportunities”, a guide exploring 20 of Africa’s “most lucrative opportunities” in waste recycling and the circular economy. Interested persons who join the Activator HQ Membership get full access to its “business ideas for 2024, funding opportunities for new and existing businesses, investor profiles, and other exclusive insights”, the company promises.
(Published in GLOBAL RECYCLING Magazine 3/2024, Page 3, Photo: Gordon Johnson / pixabay.com)
