AFRICA'S FIRST
Investments, Advisory, & Knowledge
Solutions Hub For The Creative Industries.
WE FUEL THE GROWTH OF AFRICA’S CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
by promoting business & intellectual property ownership,
contributing to sustainable livelihoods for all cultural practitioners & artisans,
and empowering burgeoning youth-led and women-led digital & creative enterprises,.
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10 YEARS OF INVESTING IN AFRICA’S CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
$10M
Successfully committed to the creative industries in our first decade
100+
Businesses directly supported via our investments
10K+
Creatives supported via capacity building, grants, direct & indirect Investments
72%
Of our investments are in young-women and young-men led businesses
14
African & Indian Ocean countries, and still growing
$20M
To be raised and commercially invested in dynamic enterprises by the end of 2024
FEATURED PROJECTS
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Netflix Creative Equity Scholarship Fund
The context for scholarships emerged from Netflix's Grow Creative initiative which allocated a USD 1 million grant for Creative Equity Scholarships in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Insights Out Africa Research
Insights Out Africa is dedicated to creating more visibility for CCI research about Africa by Africans, supporting a research environment for the CCIs in Africa, and encouraging more evidence-based policymaking and investments.
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Investigating Informality In The Financing Of Culture And Creative Businesses In Kenya
HEVA was selected to represent Kenya’s perspective in a research commission that seeks to explore what is the relationship between the informal economy and the cultural economy in the global south
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