Start-up incubator in Africa: Key players, projects, stakes, Orange Group and Meltwater.

When it comes to startups ecosystem in Africa, Connectikpeople.co is progressively fascinated by the encouraging work deployed and achieved by Meltwater.org. This school and incubator for African startups henceforth, is more or less must-attend in eastern Africa.

Orange Group is also playing progressively, an interesting role in this continent, where generally people unfortunately create small- and medium-sized business (SME) for survive, not to innovate and to bring concrete solutions to problems or to compete.

As a must-attend landmark for the end-to-end digital transformation, Connectikpeople.co always recommends start-up incubators, Hackathons programs and specific prizes, to focus on innovative and disruptive projects by weaving attraction around these projects.

Thefamily in France is implementing this kind of approach and the encouraging results

are visible.

Regarding the footprints of Orange in Africa, this French-based company has already contributed to the creation and support of the CTIC incubator in Dakar and the Ebène project in Mauritius.

The company also has in its assets, the organisation of Hackathons in Tunisia, Uganda and Mauritius. The Group has also set-up a specific prize designed to support African start-ups (the Orange African Social Venture Prize).

The opening of its first start-up incubator in Niger, aims to encourage the creation of new and innovative companies in the country. CIPMEN was designed to support small- and medium-sized enterprises from their launch phase until they reach a level of maturity and turn enough profit to fend for themselves in the long term.

Connectikpeople.co observes that, this incubator is committed to help companies in future-oriented sectors such as Information and Communication Technologies, renewable energy and the environment.