The AVPA Deal Share Platform for Africa is a subscription-based community where, as a social investor you can share information about your investees and grantees, flag resources those organisations need to grow, and invite others to partner, support or co-invest alongside you.

How the Deal Share Platform Works:

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Social Investors (such as foundations, impact fund managers, corporates, HNWIs, family offices, and providers of human or intellectual capital, etc.) sign up to be platform subscribers. The platform is a closed investor-only community.

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Social Investors “endorse” a company or organisation seeking financial capital or non-financial support services. Investors can endorse their current or past portfolio companies/organisations looking to raise follow-on capital. Investors can also endorse upcoming deals to seek co-investors or co-grantors.

3

Social Investors browse endorsed deals and other member profiles to find collaboration opportunities. Contact forms are on the platform so you can get in touch to develop those partnerships and deals offline.

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AVPA’s Deal Share Team supports social investor subscribers with: direct introductions and tailored deal notifications based on your preferences, virtual convenings, technical and advisory support (through partners).

Deal Share aims to:

  • Crowd in the right capital at the right time to scale what works.
  • Bring together like-minded investors through thematic platforms to solve specific social challenges.

AVPA is excited to launch two Deal Share Pilots for 2020 to foster collaboration for social investors seeking impact in:

Pilot 1

Gender (supporting women entrepreneurs, gender lens investment, benefitting women and girls)

Pilot 2

COVID-19 (health care systems, economic recovery)

For more information about how to join our pilots, see the Subscribe to Deal Share page.

Why AVPA Deal Share?

African social investment landscape: many different capital owners using different strategies to achieve similar social goals

Diversity is excellent, but lack of coordination and competition amongst different types of social investors creates challenges. It can be confusing for capital seekers, and inefficient for capital owners. This is problematic especially during COVID-19, as capital resources are scarce.

What does your portfolio need to thrive?

Deal Share brings together philanthropists, impact investors and service providers to collaborate along the entire continuum of social capital.

Why AVPA Deal Share?

  • Vetted opportunities – community of trust
  • Financial and non-financial resources – a place to support and scale current portfolios, not just look for new deals
  • Locally rooted, globally networked
  • Investor coalitions by social issue – focused on action and outcomes
  • Tailored Support: periodic emails with selected deals and direct introductions base on your preferences
  • User centric – an investor community that works for you