Last week GreenTec Capital Partners Sofien V. Sidhoum and Erick Yong attended the Land of African Business' "Back from Abidjan" conference in Paris, France. The event presented a whitepaper by the ESSEC Business School on financial inclusion and cashless economies in Africa drawn from the LAB's 2017 meeting in Abidjan. Read more on our site: http://bit.ly/2HYmNqm

GreenTec Capital Partners​ are pleased to report that our investees Farmcrowdy​ have been selected to receive a $325,000 GSMA​ Ecosystem Accelerator grant. The company was selected as one of 15 startups to receive funding from an applicant pool of more than 550 startups from 40 countries. Read more on our site: http://bit.ly/2IGkR6X

Catch the German live stream of tonight's Start-up Night! Africa 2018 at the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie at the following link: http://www.de.digital/DIGITAL/Navigation/DE/Service/Livestream-Start-up-Night-Afrika/videostream.html

GreenTec Capital Partners will be at the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie's Start-up Night! Africa 2018. The event will be live streamed in English at the following link: http://www.de.digital/DIGITAL/Navigation/EN/Service/Livestream-Start-up-Night-Africa/videostream.html

GreenTec Capital Partners will be at the 2. Start-up Night! Afrika im BMWi tonight. The event will be steamed live in English and German starting at 6:00 PM CET. Live streams can be accessed in English and German.

GreenTec Capital Partners are happy to share some thoughts on "Adapt or die - It's time to rethink the startup accelerator model for Africa" by Yinka Adegoke and published on Quartz Africa. Read more on our site: http://bit.ly/2DxWIM9

This week, we are happy to share the following interview (In French) with Betrand Badré by Phillippe Mabille in La Tribune. Mr. Badré, a well-known actor in development finance, has recently founded Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital, whose mission is to provide funding for projects with positive impacts in emerging markets. In the interview he shares his views on impact investment and what led him to found the company. Read more on our site: http://bit.ly/2FPaOxK

Very happy to share this investor profile of GreenTec Capital Partners CEO Erick Yong from Disrupt Africa http://disrupt-africa.com/2018/03/meet-the-investor-erick-yong-greentec-capital-partners/

This week, GreenTec Capital Partners were at the first Stars in Africa Eu-Africa Youth and Entrepreneurship Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. The event is the first of three focused on promoting youth as the drivers of sustainable and inclusive development in Africa. The event brought together more than 1,000 participants to network, learn, and discuss entrepreneurial empowerment for Africa's youth. GreenTec's Sofien Sidhoum and Erick Yong were in attendance, supporting the forum as panel moderators and speakers. Read more on our site: http://bit.ly/2FjU5Dk

GreenTec Capital Partners are hiring again, this time for one of our innovative portfolio companies! We are seeking a highly driven and motivated CEO to take one of our ventures to the next level. Highly pragmatic, self-starter, digital acumen, and the eagerness to share the opportunity as well as the risk (equity stake)… Is this you? To come along on a great journey with us click here: http://bit.ly/2tkKVRH

Very interesting event hosted by our friends from Pitchclub on April 22nd in Darmstadt. The format of the entrepreneur university is a very cool concept!

This week GreenTec Capital Partners attended the German African Economic Forum in Dortmund as well as the Ghana Buisness Forum in Berlin. At the GAEF, 6 selected start-ups from the Make-IT in Africa program including AgroCenta were given the opportunity to pitch for the international audience. At the GBF, Moses Acquah had the opportunity to speak with His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, about GreenTec and its model, as well as challenges facing Ghana's start-up ecosystem. Read more on our site: http://bit.ly/2HYAdDE