Bridging Carthage and the World.
Carthage Foundation is an independent, non-partisan non-profit based in Berlin. We build what has long been missing between a scattered diaspora and the builders back home: research, community, capital, and media that work as one system.
Independent · Non-partisan · Berlin
Tunisia has builders. The diaspora has skill, money, and reach. What is missing between them is basic infrastructure: reliable ways to see who is doing what, and trusted channels through which help can actually move.
Millions of Tunisians live abroad. They send billions home every year, yet almost none of that becomes investment in companies, institutions, or ideas. Not for lack of will, but because the bridge was never built. Carthage Foundation exists to build it: carefully, transparently, and for the long term. We are not a political project and we are not a substitute for Tunisia's own institutions. We are the layer that lets a worldwide community and a rising generation of builders find each other and get to work.
Each initiative does one job well. Together they form a single system: research earns trust, media carries it, the network compounds it, and capital turns it into outcomes for founders.
The independent research arm. Careful, non-partisan analysis of Tunisia and its diaspora, written to be useful rather than loud.
The members' network, by invitation only. Named after the citadel of ancient Carthage, it is the gathering place of the people building across the corridor.
The capital layer. A verified data platform on the Tunisian founder ecosystem first, and in time a private diaspora investment syndicate.
Tunisia.vc operates as a legally separate commercial entity. Membership in the Foundation or in Byrsa.network never grants investment access or any financial benefit.
The public voice. Conversations and briefs in three languages that make Tunisia and its diaspora easier to understand, for themselves and for everyone else.
Hannibal Institute produces independent work nobody else owns.
Rigour and transparency earn a credibility that cannot be bought.
Tunisia.fm carries the work outward. Byrsa.network turns its audience into a working community.
Tunisia.vc turns data and trust into investment in Tunisian-origin founders.
Part of the commercial side funds the research and the public goods, and the cycle grows stronger.
One rule holds it all together: value moves freely between the initiatives, influence does not. No commercial interest, member, or funder can direct our research or our editorial judgment.
We turn down funding or alignment that would compromise our judgment.
We work for Tunisia's builders, not for any government or party.
Methodology, criteria, funding, and our own mistakes are published.
We source what we claim or we label it clearly. Concrete reality beats discourse.
A small network that delivers beats a large one that does not.
Arabic, French, and English as equals in substance, never as decoration.
Tell us a little about you. We reply personally to every request.
