The AVPA Deal Share Platform for Africa fosters collaboration amongst diverse social investors to achieve greater collective impact. See How Deal Share Works for more information.
AVPA is busy building the online Deal Share Platform infrastructure. We are looking for social investors to join two DSP pilots:
- Pilot 1: Gender (supporting women entrepreneurs, gender lens investment, benefitting women and girls)
- Pilot 2: COVID-19 (health care systems, economic recovery)
Both pilots will foster collaboration amongst diverse social investors (philanthropists, foundations, impact investors, corporates, donors, etc.) deploying capital anywhere in West, East and Southern Africa. The pilots will run from November 2020 – March 2021 with no subscription fee.
The Pilot Process
Subscribe and Create Your Profile
- We’ll ask you for information about your work
- What type of capital you deploy, where, and to whom
- Your impact goals and target beneficiaries
- What non-financial support you give your partners
- Contact info and key team members
List a Deal
- Tell us what your portfolio needs
- Endorse your current grantees/investees to raise financial capital or find non-financial support
- Endorse your upcoming deals seeking co-investors or concessional capital
Engage
- Find partners and opportunities
- Browse other member profiles and deals, click to get in touch, develop partnerships and deals offline.
- Participate in live virtual deal sessions and convenings.
Receive Tailored Opportunities
- We’ll send you an email once a month
- With a few fresh deals that match your preferences.
- We’ll also suggest direct introductions to new partners.
Talk To Us
- Once a quarter we’ll send you a quick survey
- Value you’re getting – new partnerships/deals?
- How can we improve the platform?
- Update your preferences and strategic focus areas.
Deal Share pilot participants will benefit from webinars, publications, trainings, peer groups, & other resources available through our Gender Community and COVID-19 Community.
Why Join the Pilot?
- Meet new partners – people you wouldn’t normally have lunch with
- Grantmakers considering impact investment – get a taste for deal opportunities
- Impact investors – find philanthropists who can provide concessional capital to fill in the missing middle and make blended finance happen
- Identify exit routes, follow-on and scale-up capital
- Influence the design of the Deal Share Platform
- See vetted opportunities through a community of trust
- Financial and non-financial resources – a place to support and scale current portfolios, not just look for new deals
- Receive preferential, discounted access to the AVPA Deal Share Platform in 2021.
