Founder and CEO of Janngo, a term that means “future” in Fulani, this 32-year-old Senegalese entrepreneur with pegs in her body. With the provision of digital platforms serving African startups and SMEs, she is fulfilling her dream of investing and undertaking in pan-African digital champions with proven business models and inclusive social impact. “By developing solutions to improve logistics for export, I hope to propel Africa, which currently accounts for only 3% of trade in global trade,” she said between two planes in Paris and Abidjan where she has her offices.
1 million euros
Its first round of € 1 million was raised with leading African and international financiers, including the Mulliez and Clipperton Finance families. Already with the e-commerce platform Jumia, which she was founder and CEO in Côte d’Ivoire, then director general in Nigeria and member of the executive committee at the African level, she had managed to create more than 3,000 direct jobs and more 70,000 indirect jobs.
Appointed by the World Economic Forum “Young World Leader” and by the Choiseul Institute in the 100 “economic leaders of tomorrow”, she received in January the prestigious German “Aenne Burda” award for the visionary leadership, optimism and courage she immediately dedicated “to my mother, my collaborators at Janngo and all the women entrepreneurs in Africa”.
