COBASA (Compagnie de la Baie de Saint Augustin) is an Africa-focused investment advisory and industry acceleration platform with 35+ years of experience across Francophone, Anglophone, and Lusophone Africa.

We operate at the intersection of economic intelligence, cross-border investment strategy, and ecosystem building, helping projects move from idea → bankability → implementation.

We don’t just advise.
We design systems.
We de-risk complexity.
We build pipelines, not just projects.

What We Do
- Investment Strategy & Market Positioning
- Market entry strategies, economic intelligence, stakeholder mapping, and risk analysis across Africa.
- Project Design & Investment Readiness
- Business planning, financial modelling, legal and fiscal structuring, and investor matching.
- Ecosystem Building & Industry Acceleration
- Value-chain design, consortium building, farmer and SME enablement, and technical expert mobilisation.
- Institutional & Cross-Border Partnerships
- Public–private alignment, donor engagement, and bi-regional collaboration between Africa and Europe.

Where We Work
Headquartered in South Africa, with active projects and networks across 12+ African countries, supported by teams in Southern Africa and Europe.

South Africa is our testing ground, what works here, scales across the continent.

Sector Experience
Agribusiness • Industrial Hemp • Logistics • Infrastructure • Telecoms • Waste Management • Hospitality • Real Estate

Why Emerging Sectors Matter
Industrial hemp is a live case study of how we activate complex ecosystems, from policy and feasibility to expert delegation, value-chain structuring, and early market design.

The model works. Now we scale it across sectors.

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