Discover and Engage African Companies
We offer a suite of solutions to help our clients identify, verify and engage with African corporates.
Through an extensive team of in-country analysts, technology and strategic partnerships, we serve a growing number of multinationals, financial institutions, advisories and public agencies.
Digital Engagement Platform
Engaging African corporate targets is a time-consuming and costly affair: defining and reaching a target audience, gathering and validating information, generating a response from relevant executives are all challenging tasks in any environment, but particularly in many of Africa’s opaque and dynamic business landscapes.
Asoko’s Digital Engagement solution addresses the challenge by combining Asoko’s deep data-set on African companies, its strong brand recognition among African executives and its best-in-class digital engagement infrastructure.
Our clients have used this low-overhead platform in a variety of ways:
United Kingdom Department for International Trade • DIT
Connecting UK-based investors with African companies seeking debt or equity financing.
United Nations Development Programme • UNDP
Identifying corporate champions contributing to the UN SDGs and COVID-19 recovery.
London Stock Exchange Group • LSEG
Locating thousands of companies to identify Africa’s fastest growing innovators.
US International Development Finance Corporation • DFC
Driving debt and equity deal origination for DFCs Africa rollout.
AfricInvest
Generating new debt and equity deals directly into client's respective deal team pipelines.
African Development Bank Group • AfDB
Connecting global venture investors with early stage African startups and SMEs.
What makes this solution special
Asoko Insight can leverage a number of stand-out proprietary assets together in order to ensure the best chance of success for your Digital Engagement.
We operate the services seamlessly to provide a simple high level one-stop experience.
Custom Engagement Platform
Configure our platform to specifically cater for your exact needs.
Digital Marketing
Full range of digital marketing with authoritative content.
In-house Database
Target engagement from internal database of 200,000+ African companies.
Analyst Relationships
In-country analyst teams have built up direct, personal relationships with hundreds of companies.
What outreach challenge can Asoko help you with?
Custom Research
Bespoke, On-Demand Research Offering
Enabled by Asoko Insight’s proprietary datasets and broad in-country research footprint, we deliver hard data, in depth-analysis and written reporting to answer your research needs.
While we have a number of ready-to-go datasets and analysis tools, we have found the best value is derived from understanding the client’s business goals and matching this to a suitable Asoko Insight data-driven solution.
Our custom research projects support a variety of business goals for our clients:
Research Options
We use a number of baseline approaches to provide the data and analysis package that will support your business decision making.
Value Chain Analysis
Tracing activities that add value to product through the supply chain.
Industry Sizing
Determine size of the market for a region and industry.
Industry Structure
Number and size distribution of competitors in an industry.
Company Profiling
Quantitative data that feeds deeper segment analysis.
Expert/Executive Insights
Qualitative insights from industry and academic experts.
Corporate Structure
Key Executives and Ownership knowledge.
Execution
Our existing Africa dataset and in-country data-acquisition footprint enables Asoko to offer a rapid turnaround while still achieving depth and breadth in our research.
Corporate Dataset
200,000+ company records in Asoko’s coprorate database.
Deal History Dataset
3000+ closed private equity and debt deals across Africa.
Digital Engagement
Targeted outreach for a specific initiatives.
Data Team
On the ground analysts in over 25 African countries.
What custom research can Asoko help you with?
Compliance Support
Asoko Insight can support your compliance information needs in 25+ African countries.
Whether it is the straightforward and rapid acquisition of transcripts and scans of official documents or doing a deep report on Ultimate Beneficial Ownership.
We centralise the record retrieval process to cut down the due diligence time for your team.
Our fully tracked solution provides a robust solution that ensures efficiency.
Solutions offered include:
Document Retrieval
Retrieve corporate and judicial records on registered entities, company shareholders and directors to verify ownership, control and risk exposure for compliance and KYC assessments.
Ethics 1st Verification
Add a unique factor to your due-diligence capability. Ethics 1st provides an independent on the ground verification of a companies governance.
Corporate Self Submission
We provide data gathering, data cleanse and initial stage vetting that means your diligence efforts can be optimised.
Ultimate Beneficial Ownership
Build the ownership graph of a Company to identify the individual People that are the key stakeholders, whether the ownership is directly held or via another corporate entity.