The document discusses the innovation ecosystem in Tunisia, highlighting the role of Carthage Business Angels (CBA) and Wiki Startup in supporting early-stage innovative projects through financing, mentorship, and networking. It outlines the challenges faced by this ecosystem, such as cultural and legislative gaps, and emphasizes the need for better collaboration among various stakeholders to foster a more effective environment for innovation. Additionally, it suggests creating platforms for dialogue and cooperation between entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers to enhance the overall ecosystem.

1. The innovation eco-
system in Tunisia
Maher Kallel
President
Carthage Business Angels

2. What is the most important
tool for innovation?

6.  CULTURAL GAP
 MONEY GAP
 LEGISLATION GAP

7. Carthage Business Angels
 CBA is the Leading Business Angels association in Tunisia
 CBA works to identify and support innovative projects.
 CBA's mission is to initiate projects in the early stages and to accompany them
on several aspects:
 Help Financing start-ups in the early stages
 Enhance the credibility of innovative projects vis-à-vis other investors and
institutions
 Coach innovative entrepreneurs with the expertise and the network of CBA
members
 Contribute in the development of an innovation eco-system in Tunisia
 CBA develops a network of investors and mentors in partnership with Wiki-startup

8. WIKI STARTUP
 Wiki Startup is the first private business center, project incubation and
investment advisory in Tunisia.
 Startup wiki was created in 2011 by a group of Tunisian entrepreneurs who
aim to boost entrepreneurship by providing their expertise and experience to
innovative developers.
 Wiki Startup contributed in less than a year since its inception in organizing
three Boot Camps, about twenty Pitching sessions and two Business Plan
Competitions.
 Wiki Start now supports 12 Innovative Start-Ups,The current portfolio of Wiki
Start Up is an investment potential of over 40 million TD.
 CBA and Wiki-Startup closely work with BA and Capitalease

9. Capitalease
 CAPITALease is a business angles and VC’s Pool seed fund created in 2012
 CAPITALease generate an average ticket of 100 KDT by award-winning
project and validated by its investment committee.
 A shareholders' agreement for an investment period of 3 years with
standardized clauses for all cases
 Capitalease started as a one million dianrs fund and will be reaching 10
million dinars by july 2015.

10.  CEED Tunisia(Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Developpment) Is
an NGO that focuses on mentoring PME development through assistance
and support during their creation, through mentoring and coaching.
 Caisse des Dépôts is a public investor dedicated to the development of
long-term investment
 The National Agency for Promotion of Scientific Research is a government
agency whose primary mission is to provide services to professionalize the
management of research activities in the framework of an effective and
equitable partnership with the socio-economic operators
 There DeutscheGesellschaft für InternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ) is an
international development institution, known for its high technical
competence in the management programs,

11. The eco-sytem

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CHAIN OF FINANCING AND INCENTIVE PROGRAMS
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Ettanmia

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FIFTEEN INSTRUMENTS MANAGED BY A DOZEN OF BODIES
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APII, BANQUES
FCPR & SICAR
MESRS -
DGVR
BMN
BMN
BMN
APII
MESRS &
INNORPI
MESRS -
DGVR
MESRS -
DGRS
APII
APII &
MTIC
DGIDT -
MIT
IKDAM Gestion &
PHENICIA - ACP
SAGES
Capital

14. APII
MESRS
DGVRR
INNORPI
SAGES
CAPITAL
BFPME
Banques
Commer-
ciales
SOTUGAR
Technopoles
ISET
Acheteur
Public
TEMPUS
MEDINNOALL
Carthage
Business
Angels
Cartographie des
principaux acteurs de
l’Essaimage scientifique en
Tunisie
Centrede
recherche
SICAR
Pépinières

15. SWOT analysis15
- Weak Deals flows
- Skills Gap
-hostile Environment / ineffective
interfaces and structures
- Missing Market Information
- Weak IP protection
- A density of actors and impressive
dedicated resources
- A valuable heritage of knowledge
- The proliferation of private initiatives
- Competitions and incubation
programs
- No communication between the
different actors
- Leigislation not adapted to
innovative start-ups
- Not enough Specific measures for
sourcing especially from universities
The
Innovation
Ecosystem

17. Tens of uncoordinated initiatives
 Dozens of challenges, business plans competitions, conferences.
 Qatar Foundation Fund, EBRD, World Bank, AFD + 15 government fund and
tools ( business centers, technology parks + funds)
 Sarting integration of coaching and mentoring with finance
 Still working on finding the recipe for innovation eco-system

18. Ideas for an innovation eco-system
 Gather every important actor in the country in a start-up weekend where
they meet and connect with each other , align their vision and remove
some biases and judgements.
 Make BA, incubators, VC’s research centers really work together under this
vshared vision.
 Let civil society become close friends with pepole who make legislation.
 Reduce the age of decision makers!
 Let the country becomes a « huge Café »