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About Us

Creating the necessary space for sustainable partnerships between Africa and Europe

Today Africa and Europe is to represent a market of nearly 2 billion consumers. At GotLinks our aim is to inter-connect entrepreneurs, businesses, investors as well as support governments and institutions to ensure market access & integration, long-lasting partnerships and investment flows between the two continents.

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Our Vision & Mission

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Vision

Our platform is dedicated to achieving a profound transformation in doing business and forging partnerships to access new markets and attract investments in Africa and Europe.

  1. Connecting businesses to markets, investors, and consumers both in Africa and Europe

  2. Filling the missing link in term of strategy to reach new markets and consumers in Africa and Europe

  3. Building sustainable business linkages and clustering for Africa and Europe.

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Mission

How it works

We believe that in order to operate and deploy your services & access new markets, interaction with the right actors of the targeted markets are central. We intervene at two levels.

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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS

We provide business development services, capacity building (training, coaching and mentoring), market intelligence studies and research, as well as support innovation management and technological transition / adoption.

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BUSINESS
EVENTS

We organize business meetings & networking events as well as economic missions to immerse our clients within their ecosystem of choice connecting them with institutions, private sector operators, investors, institutions and end consumers.

We focus on...

  1. Supporting institution, governments and compagnies in their strategy to deploy / access new markets.

  2. Mitigating risks associated with doing business in Africa and in Europe and understand nature and specificities of the different markets.

  3. Analysing Business environments/Culture/Values throughout the entire value/supply chains. 

Meet The Team

Youssouf Simbo Diakite

Youssouf has over 10 years' experience in promoting entrepreneurship, innovation and digitalization in Europe and Africa. He is an international consultant, trainer and coach, and content developer, content developer, and provider of business development solutions for startups and on the African continent. He has developed the largest AAC+ diaspora entrepreneurship forum in Europe, as well as the DIDA-Diaspora Innovation Days in Africa. Over the years, he has succeeded in raising over 5 million euros to support entrepreneurial ecosystems through a wide range of projects. He is co-chairman of ADYFE - African Diaspora Youth Forum on Entrepreneurship, he is founder and CEO of NYETAA MBIC: Mali Business Innovation and Incubation Centre.

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Yann Huguenard

Yann is an entrepreneur, an international development expert and a coach with over a decade of experience in providing customized consulting & training services to companies, international organizations entrepreneurs and Governments. In his current role, he supports his clients in terms of strategic review innovation, access to finance, structuring of projects & companies, and digital transition and solution adoption, with a particular focus on the African continent and market.  As a fervent advocate of inclusion, innovation, and new technologies, he and his partner have developed the “Last Digital Mile” concept, which provides plug & play (light) digital solutions to facilitate the deployment of connectivity, e-commerce logistics and supply chain management, branding, marketing, and packaging, even in the most remote areas. Prior to founding Y.H Consulting he served the United Nations in various capacities for over 8 years.

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