The Averroes Africa Community

Bpifrance has been investing in African private equity funds for close to 20 years through the Averroes scheme, to support African private equity fund managers and through them high-growth African companies from start-ups to upper-mid caps, and thereby contribute to private sector development, employment and innovation in Africa.

With this program, Bpifrance has constituted a unique network of leading African fund managers with expertise, experience and vision, as well as African companies spanning a great variety of sectors and geographies and showing solid business models and a great potential for growth on the continent and beyond.

The Averroes Africa community will function as a platform to connect this network of top tier African fund managers and their portfolio companies to Bpifrance's ecosystem, notably composed of companies supported by Bpifrance through equity and debt financing as well as investors (including in the Averroes funds of funds) in France, in Europe and the rest of the world.