Algeria Venture
Yacine Chikhar is the Director of Operations and Head of Operations at Algeria Venture since April 2022, overseeing the acceleration program and supporting innovative business start-ups with feasibility assessments, business planning, and market research. Prior to this role, Yacine served as Local Coordinator for the K2K Program at Maastricht School of Management in 2022, managing project coordination and needs assessments for three universities in Algeria. As Executive Program Director at the Algerian Center For Social Entrepreneurship from June 2020 to March 2022, Yacine led incubation programs for impact entrepreneurs and managed program staff. Earlier experience includes roles as Project Manager for UNESCO projects at HDN-Algeria and as an Entrepreneur at CSAUTOMATIK, where Yacine directed company performance and strategic improvements. Yacine's career began with project management at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, focusing on sustainable development and youth skills training. Yacine holds a Licence en sciences économiques et de gestion in Finance and Financial Services Management from Université Saad Dahlab de Blida (2006-2010).
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Algeria Venture
A-VENTURE is the initiative of the Algerian government through the coordination between the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and Startups and SONATRACH, the national oil & gaz company of Algeria and the largest company in Africa, as a main sponsor and contributor to startups inclusion A-venture, the first of its kind in Algeria, will play a pioneering role by offering and facilitating logistical and development structures for startups and incubator as well as various accompaniment programs complying with international standards. Its function is complementary to the "ALGERIA START-UP FUND", already launched in October 2020, by ensuring the monitoring and supervision of the beneficiary startups. In addition to assisting high potential startups in fine-tuning their business processes, A-Venture will become a platform to attract top investors for selected startups via its challenging program. Unleashing the full potential of Algerian youth and its emerging and dynamic entrepreneurship is at the highest priority. The launching of A-Venture comes as a confirmation of the Algerian government’s eagerness to promote a knowledge economy by putting in place a multisectoral mechanism via its Ministry in charge of startups.