A 100 Investable West African Startups

From Timbuktu Chronicles Sat Jul 19 2014, 13:46:00

In Tekedia:

Over the years. the teams at FASMICRO Group and African Institution of Technology have moved around Africa documenting the next opportunity. Some of our insights have been shared in books, publications like Harvard Business Review and conferences. The perspectives have been spot on as we continue to see trends and help companies understand Africa even nefore many do. Our last project (May 2014) was mapping the innovation systems in Nigeria and using data to predict what the next opportunities could be (the funder may make the report public soon). We developed a database of more than 7,000 companies in the economy and met companies making money with no website. That was one - we have worked for clients across Africa.

In this eBook, we share the top 100 investable companies we have seen in the last six months in West Africa. Please note, we did not say "Innovative". You may be innovative and ahead of the time which could affect your capacity to generate immediate value. We are talking of companies that are positioned to make money. Some of these companies will be the first sets of firms that will be acquired by foreign companies. We list three here in no order:

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