Apply for the African Private Equity Fellowship 2024 for Investment Professionals!

African Private Equity Fellowship Building the next generation of African investors

African Private Equity Fellowship is a first-ever executive program to boost your career in PE, VC & Private Debt in Africa. Participants will:

• Meet investors from leading African funds
• Access the best use cases to level-up your industry knowledge
• Join a network of tier-1 investors in Africa
• The applications for the African Private Equity Fellowship Fall 2024 cohort are open

Talks and mentoring with emblematic investors

Engage with African investors to share best practices, industry knowledge and technical focuses.

and more…

Why join the African Private Equity Fellowship?

Join African Private Equity Fellowship, an initiative launched by Proparco with the support of leading African funds.

This program is made for you if you are:

• An active finance professional in Africa (PE, VC, Debt…)
• Willing to accelerate your career
• Willing to develop your network
• Ready to commit up to 3 hours per week for 6 months

What you get

Topics covered during the African Private Equity Fellowship include :

• Major trends in private equity in Africa
• Macro risk management
• Financing/debt: focus on private credit in Africa
• The strong growth of Venture Capital in Africa
• ESG in private equity in Africa
• Sector focus: Infrastructure Energy, Telco/FinTech, Healthcare, Agri-food etc.
• Regional focus: East & South Asia, MENA, West Africa etc.

At the end of the African Private Equity Fellowship, participants will join the growing community of next-generation African Investors.

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Your commitment

• The program is designed for active professionals, with mandatory webinars every two weeks after working hours. The Fellowship is 100% online and totally free of charge.
• 2-3 hours per week max, over a 6 months period. This includes both synchronous (mandatory) webinars and asynchronous times (optional MOOC, mentorship etc..).
• Commitment and rigour are expected from the Fellows, with regard to the quality of the stakeholders involved in the programme.

The Fellowship includes:

Talks and Q&A sessions with investors and experts from tier-1 PE / VC / Debt funds

Exclusive African use cases and training modules to level-up your skills and industry knowledge

“Office Hours” sessions to ask all your questions and connect with other fellows

Library of external resources to deep dive on specific topics and access templates and use cases

African Private Equity Fellowship Selection criteria

Applications for the Fall 2024 cohort are open.

The program is open to investment professionals, from the whole African continent and promote synergies between regions. Fellowship will pay particular attention to achieving gender parity in the program.

Applicants will be selected according to these criteria:

• Already working in PE / VC / Private Debt(or working in Finance and willing to initiate your career in those sectors)
• Working with the African continent
• English-speaking (fluent)
• Have 2 to 6 years of experience in PE / VC / Private Debt
• Available to attend the program : approximately 2/3 hours per week

Application details

• Applications for the third cohort, starting in Fall 2024,are now open!
• Applications for the third cohort, starting in Fall 2024,will close on July 24, 2024

An initiative by Proparco

Proparco is a subsidiary of Agence Française de Développement (AFD Group) dedicated to the private sector, and has been working for over 40 years to promote sustainable economic, social and environmental development. Proparco is involved in financing and supporting companies and financial institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Its action is focused on key development sectors: infrastructure with a focus on renewable energy, agribusiness, financial institutions, health, education, etc.

Under the French initiative Choose Africa, fulfilling France’s commitment to support African entrepreneurship, AFD Group makes all its tools available to African start-ups, microenterprises and MSMEs to finance and assist them at the various stages of their development, particularly through local partners supported by the Group.

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