COPISTE 2024 is a regional start-up pitch festival, arranged through the Indian Ocean Fee (IOC) and the Ecu Union, thru their Entrepreneurship and Industry Facilitation program “ENFA-OI”.
There have been 113 of them who submitted their packages. 20 stood out from the group through being decided on to take part within the regional pitch festival “ COPYRIGHT 2024 », open to younger marketers from the Indian Ocean area. Those 20 contributors come from Mauritius, Comoros, Madagascar and Seychelles. Competing in one of the vital 3 sectors, particularly tourism; beauty and medicinal crops; and seafood, contributors had been entitled to 2 days of intense arrangements on the finish of which they needed to seem in entrance of a jury of professionals for a 5-minute timed presentation. Six winners, two in keeping with sector, stood out from the group, together with two Malagasy contributors: Anthony Ludovic Andrianandraina within the Tourism sector together with his mission « Cycle Marine »and Marie Raissa Rakotonjatovo within the Seafood sector, together with her mission “Mena Tsook”. Each received 2nd position of their respective sectors. They had been awarded along the 4 different winners remaining week. The six winners gained a prize starting from 1,500 to two,000 euros in grants, in addition to an incubation voucher of one,000 euros every.
Greater than only a pitch festival, COPISTE 2024 used to be additionally a time for conferences and coaching because of the more than one modules installed position through the ENFA-OI program in quite a lot of spaces: mentoring; conversation (draw in and retain consumers); testimony (lesson from a start-up that has experimented with fundraising); financing of an early-stage start-up; research of conversation in the course of the strengths and weaknesses of every player.
Word that the ENFA-OI program, serving regional marketers, in particular ladies and younger folks, in particular helps marketers within the fields of tourism, seafood and medicinal and beauty crops, in an financial method blue, inexperienced and/or round.
Tourism sector
1re position : Vicky Durand (Seychelles) – projet « Save the Ocean »
2e position: Anthony Ludovic Andrianandraina (Madagascar) – mission « Cycle Marine »
Beauty and medicinal crops sector
1re position: Jihane Man (Comoros) – mission « Wutamu »
2e position: Bouchra Ibrahime (Comoros) – mission « Natur’hair »
Seafood sector
1re position: Darren Low Hong (Seychelles) – mission “Fleur de sel”
2e position: Marie Raissa Rakotonjatovo (Madagascar) – mission “Mena Tsook.”
Hanitra R.