Obtain brand
Positioning Senegal as an African digital powerhouse
Since 2016, VivaTech has made its mark because the European epicenter of innovation and digital know-how. With greater than 2,000 exhibitors from throughout the globe, the commerce present provides unparalleled entry to worldwide clients, main traders and new markets.
Senegal has emerged as one among Africa’s 5 essential tech hubs, making the occasion from 15 to 18 June a key alternative. The nation’s most promising startups went to Paris with assist from the NTF V undertaking, the French Embassy in Dakar, and the Senegalese authorities’s company for entrepreneurship – often known as the Délégation générale à l’Entreprenariat Rapide des Femmes et des Jeunes (DER/FJ).
In only a few days, these “Tech Lions” initiated greater than 37 offers. In response to DER/FJ’s Carine Vavasseur, these wonderful outcomes validate the attractiveness of Senegal’s tech ecosystem.
“Senegal is on the crossroads of French-speaking Africa, with mature start-ups which might be able to be exported. Our well-organized enterprise surroundings facilitates collaborations,” mentioned Vavasseur, the pinnacle of innovation and ecosystem coordination at DER/FJ.
“The creation of the Mohamed Bin Zayed hub for entrepreneurship and innovation is proof of this. Senegal is attracting increasingly more traders, but in addition corporations from all around the continent that are concerned with our innovation platform. Senegal is in a state of dynamic openness. And that is what we wish to exhibit by taking part in worldwide occasions comparable to VivaTech.”
Feeding inspiration and rising the community
Since founding Logidoo two years in the past, Tamsir Ousmane Traore has revolutionized logistics in West Africa. His award-winning platform has grow to be the area’s go-to platform for transport.
By 2023, Logidoo plans to increase its franchise community to 13 African nations. Traore visited VivaTech amid his drive to boost 1.5 million euros to finance that development.
His journey to Paris let him meet main traders and take the heart beat of world improvements.
“The day earlier than VivaTech, the Viva AfricArena convention passed off. We have been capable of go to Station F, one of the prestigious start-up campuses on the planet. To see what others are doing and the place the world is heading is inspiring, and important for staying within the race.”
Within the following days, Logidoo had many conferences on the VivaTech sales space.
“Many companions wished to satisfy, and VivaTech gave us the house to take action. We additionally had the chance to establish prospects and entice new operators,” Logidoo mentioned.
“Due to VivaTech, we recruited our franchisee for the Congolese market. Taking part in such massive occasions means with the ability to showcase, work together with the group and develop your networks. That is what the NTF V undertaking helps us do. If we need to meet our development aims and add new functionalities to our options sooner or later, such assist is crucial.”
About the undertaking
The Netherlands Belief Fund V (NTF) (July 2021 – June 2025) relies on a partnership between the Dutch Ministry of International Affairs and the Worldwide Commerce Centre. The programme helps small companies in sub-Saharan Africa within the digital know-how and agribusiness sectors. It goals at contributing to an inclusive and sustainable transformation of agri-food programs partly by way of digital options, bettering the competitiveness of native tech start-ups internationally and supporting the implementation of IT&BPO corporations’ export methods.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Worldwide Commerce Centre.
This Press Launch has been issued by APO. The content material just isn’t monitored by the editorial workforce of African Enterprise and never of the content material has been checked or validated by our editorial groups, proof readers or truth checkers. The issuer is solely liable for the content material of this announcement.
