ANIMA joins forces with Bpifrance to connect startups and financiers

ANIMA is joining forces with Bpifrance and launching its digital community to connect economic players to the companies supported by its projects and to investors and partners of the EuroQuity platform.

This online community was officially launched on 8 April 2021 during the fourth edition of Emerging Valley, the African tech event in Provence.

The partnership was announced by Tarak Cherif, President of ANIMA, and Isabelle Bébéar, Director of International and European Affairs at Bpifrance, during a workshop organised in the framework of THE NEXT SOCIETY initiative, coordinated by ANIMA and co-financed by the European Union.

“This community offers the ideal framework to connect companies, startups and financiers, at a time when innovative companies need more than ever to have access to financial institutions capable of supporting innovation.” Tarak Chérif emphasises.

Created in 2008 by Bpifrance, Euroquity.com has become the reference platform in Europe for facilitating access to financing for innovative companies and collaborative projects. It has more than 15,000 companies and 2,000 investors and has enabled total investments of €550 million.

“We have been working with ANIMA for several years, and we are launching this partnership today to create the ANIMA community on Euroquity,” continues Isabelle Bébéar. “EuroQuity’s two strong points are its very strong presence of investors and its very strong internationalisation, in Europe and Africa. This new tool will allow the members of the ANIMA community to act among themselves and with the other communities present on EuroQuity. “

The digital community is also intended to allow ANIMA network members to access companies and investors associated with ANIMA’s activities and to connect with other entrepreneurship and investment players present on EuroQuity.