MAXULA Gestion, manager of the startup fund STARTUP MAXULA SEED FUND, has announced the signing of shareholders’ agreements aimed at assisting startup in Tunisia to scale. The fund to which the insurance company MAE (Mutuelle Assurance de l’Enseignment) and the Arab Tunisian Bank (ATB) have subscribed, has consequently invested in Tunisia’s ‘labelised’ startup New Zen, which specializes in the development of video games.
“Maxula Seed Fund was created by Maxula Gestion as part of a synergy with our portfolio of investments. Our objective is to offer both financing to startups to develop their activity and new ideas to the companies which constitute our portfolio of participations in order to try to allow them to create new markets,” said Raouf Aouadi, Chief Executive Officer of Maxula Seed Fund.
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- STARTUP MAXULA SEED FUND mainly intervenes to help promoters to exploit invention patents, to complete the technical and economic study of the project, to develop the technological process of the product before the marketing phase, and to complete the financing scheme.
- The fund, which obtained the authorization and the visa of the CMF respectively on November 21 and December 19, 2018, aims to invest in startups based in Tunisia whose economic model has a strong innovative dimension and, in particular, technological. The activity of these startups must have high growth potential and not have exceeded eight years following the year of incorporation.
- New Zen was founded in May 2019 by Seifeddine Ben Hamouda.
“We believe that Startups can be the future of our country. I am sure that Maxula Gestion will get us a unicorn from among these startups,” said Mohamed Abdel Hakim Sraieb, Director of Studies, Strategic Investment and Investments at ATB.
“We are very happy with our entry in the capital of the Startups which have been selected by the Investment Committee, with the aim of helping them to develop in the future,”Mrs. Myriam Ben Abdennebi, Financial Director of MAE Assurances, said.
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