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New Wind Ventures officially launched in Davos during a closed-door breakfast hosted at the House of TPC, in collaboration with Africa House, with the support of HERitage Collective.
The event opened with welcoming remarks from the SECO (Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs), delivered by Ambassador Andrea Rauber, setting the tone for a focused discussion on the future of capital deployment in Africa.
New Wind Ventures presented a clear solution: bringing fragmented data together so investors can move faster, choose better opportunities, deploy capital at a lower cost and with greater confidence as Africa’s growth accelerates.
Moderated by Hareesh Nair (CIO, TPC), perspectives from Veronica Almedom, Patrick McSharry, Babajide Sodipo, Anish Thakkar and Qiu Peng reinforced one message: Africa’s next phase of growth will be driven by infrastructure that turns information into conviction.
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January 20, 2026
Interview Le Temps, February 9, 2026
How can investment risks on the African continent be reduced? The Vaud-based start-up New Wind Ventures hopes to provide part of the answer to this question. Launched in January at the Davos Forum, the young company aims to improve access to key information on the African economy through technology developed using artificial intelligence.
“Available data is often hard to find, highly fragmented, and sometimes not even available in digital form. This makes investing on the continent difficult. We are offering a solution to a structural problem,” says co-founder and CEO Veronica Almedom, one of the 100 personalities of the Forum des 100 du Temps in 2025. “Currently, risk assessment by Western investors is partly based on perceptions rather than on reliable data.”
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