Madagascar: Impact investors in edtech deal
I&P Acceleration Technologies, a programme dedicated to African digital startups led by Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), and Miarakap, an impact investment company dedicated to financing and supporting high-potential small and medium-sized enterprises in Madagascar, are partnering with Sayna, an edtech and crowdsourcing platform.
Launched in 2018, Sayna aims to address a twofold challenge: providing quality training in the digital sector in Africa and offering professional opportunities to young people by bridging the gap between the growing demand of companies on digital issues and the supply of digital talent in Africa (front-end developer, back-end developer, tester, etc.).
“As a team, we are very proud of what we have accomplished so far. Our successes and failures have allowed us to truly understand our market so that we can now offer a solution that can truly reinvent access to the job market for junior developers. The best is ahead of us,” says Matina Razafimahefa, co-founder and CEO of Sayna.
“We have been watching Sayna since its inception and have recently encouraged Matina in its strategic pivot towards a 100% online product, meeting both the training needs of thousands of potential learners and those of companies looking for efficient and responsible outsourcing solutions. The financing from I&P Acceleration Technologies is a real opportunity and we hope it will allow Miarakap to provide additional capital funding to scale up this project,” says Emmanuel Cotsoyannis, co-founder and CEO of Miarakap.
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