Presentation of Mr Maher Kallal, President of Carthage Business Angels, the first business angels association in Tunisia.

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

12. 12
CHAIN OF FINANCING AND INCENTIVE PROGRAMS
INTILA
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Entreprene
urship
Network
Souk
Ettanmia

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FIFTEEN INSTRUMENTS MANAGED BY A DOZEN OF BODIES
13
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 »