Read the network before you enter the market.
Deal flow does not come from a country; it comes from communities of support organizations that test, prototype, sell and mentor together. OSE maps those communities, their central actors and their complementarities — in weeks, not quarters.
Six weeks of desk research per country, and still no map.
Analysts rebuild the same incomplete picture for every new geography; emerging ecosystems surprise the fund too late; and the investment committee asks for ecosystem context that portfolio companies cannot supply consistently.
- Deal-flow targeting based on anecdote and conference attendance.
- No view of which accelerators, funds and programmes actually work together.
- Regulatory and enforcement risk assessed without a comparable baseline.
- LP material that cites no independent, peer-reviewed source.
Measured on the live base — never declared.
Communities and central actors
Louvain communities, centrality and co-occurrence density at country and city level — the actors through which deal flow actually circulates.
Complementarities
Where testing couples with prototyping (×20.7), sales with market access (×11.5), team with mentoring (×9) — the bundles that produce investable companies.
Enforcement and investment climate
The COTEE cultivation effect on FDI (+0.60, p 0.051) as a regime-level signal, alongside WGI 2023 enforcement for every country in scope.
Layer profile of the pipeline
5-layer coverage and the strongest VRIO bundle (L2 Cognitive ↔ L3 Relational) — whether the ecosystem grows founders' cognition and networks, or only their office space.
Three results that change the decision.
Published or replicated on the OSE database — the same numbers you will find in OSE Expert.
Network density is a country-level signal you can act on.
Top-30 co-occurrence density ranges from 0.146 (Qatar) to 0.063 (Saudi Arabia) within the Gulf alone. Dense, orchestrated cores concentrate deal flow around a few nodes; looser apparatuses spread it — two different sourcing strategies.
Find the actors that test and prototype together.
Testing support and prototyping co-occur ×20.7; sales and market access ×11.5. Programmes that bundle these produce the companies that reach your stage — the map tells you which ones, in which city.
Where apparatus meets enforcement, investment follows — patents do not.
The cultivation interaction raises FDI (+0.60, p 0.051) but has no effect on patents or high-tech exports. Read investability from enforcement and network structure, not from innovation counts.
Sources: COTEE replication on the OSE database (WGI 2023, World Bank outcomes); Guéneau et al. (2026), Journal of Business Venturing Insights; Aligned Gender Index (World Bank Gender Statistics); AEEI (africa.ecosystem.build). Measures are computed live in OSE Expert.
What you get.
Market-entry due diligence
2–4 weeks. Ecosystem scorecard, top-30 actors with capacity scores, community map, co-investor landscape, risk flags. IC-ready.
Strategic radar on OSE Expert
Live cross-continental atlas for your team, saved views per thesis, vertical or geography; network views and exports.
Ecosystem report for LPs
Cited methodology and OSE data for your annual LP letter — the third-party reference that separates you from competitors.
Three steps, no commitment before the first.
- 1
Due-diligence brief
The countries on your list read live in 30 minutes: density, communities, enforcement.
- 2
IC document
Market-entry due diligence in 2–4 weeks, with the top-30 actors and co-investor map.
- 3
Continuous radar
A team seat on OSE Expert to watch emerging ecosystems before the conference circuit does.
Other audiences.
- Governments & Ministries
- Donors & DFIs
- Gulf Sovereign (GCC)
- Foundations
- Embassies & Bilateral
- Researchers & Universities
- Founders & Entrepreneurs
Galaxy OSE observes; ADALIA trains; EERS advances the science. See how they combine →
Source from the network, not the brochure.
Thirty minutes on the countries you are considering: communities, central actors, enforcement.