Impact Fundraising I&P recently closed a new fund (I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs 3) with a EUR 41 million first close, signaling growing capital willing to back SME and start-up growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. This presents an opportunity to offer fund services, portfolio support tools, reporting platforms, or consulting to optimize fund deployment and impact measurement for I&P and its LPs.

Women & Green Focus The launch of I&P Accélération WE4A aimed at women entrepreneurs in the green sector indicates a strategic focus on female-led, sustainable businesses. Sales opportunities exist in solutions for gender-inclusive entrepreneurship programs, climate-tech incubation support, women-led portfolio coaching, and targeted marketing, impact analytics, and grants management.

Agriculture Growth The I&P Accélération FARM program targets agricultural start-ups and SMEs in partnership with Proparco. This opens avenues for technology, supply chain solutions, farm-to-market platforms, digital training, and data analytics to optimize agribusiness financing, risk assessment, and scalability services.

Regional Presence With offices across ten African countries and additional hubs in Paris and Washington, I&P maintains a broad regional footprint. This supports cross-border investment initiatives and regional due diligence, suggesting opportunities for tech-enabled compliance tools, cross-border funding platforms, and multilingual outreach services to streamline operations and reporting.

Tech & Operations I&P utilizes a diverse tech stack (iCIMS, Canva, Drupal, Microsoft 365, Sendinblue, Airtable, Adobe Creative Suite, Piwik PRO Core) signaling readiness for enterprise-grade digital workflows, CRM, marketing automation, and analytics. This presents opportunities to upsell integrated data platforms, CRM optimization, marketing tech expansion, and custom dashboards to improve deal sourcing, portfolio management, and impact reporting.