Investment advisory firm — Dakar, WAEMU zone
We surface the WAEMU zone's high-potential projects, bring them up to investment-committee standard, and connect them to the capital that fits.
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Start by knowing where you stand5
sectors of conviction
8
countries across the WAEMU zone
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audiences served, never blurred
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standard: the quality of the deal flow
Whether you are seeking capital or deploying it, we step in at different points — with the same selectivity.
Companies & project founders
From the financeability assessment to life after the raise, we step in at every stage that decides your access to capital.
Opens with a short, low-commitment entry point
See the journeyInvestors
From qualified deal flow to portfolio monitoring, we are your presence on the ground and your filter of rigour.
Opens with a short, low-commitment entry point
See the journeyTest yourself
Three questions for a first signal. Then carry on with the full assessment — fifteen questions, five dimensions, a written action plan — without starting over.
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We don't cover everything. We cover what we understand in depth.
Modernising agricultural value chains — the region's foremost engine of growth.
Differentiating technologies applied to African realities: data, AI, imagery.
Software equipping francophone SMEs and institutions — recurring and scalable.
Processing on site what the region produces: the decade's most solid industrial thesis.
Corridors, the last mile, the cold chain: the invisible infrastructure behind everything else.
Our conviction
West Africa lacks neither projects nor capital. What it lacks are demanding bridges between the two. We build those bridges, one mandate at a time.
You invest from abroad
The diaspora sends considerable sums home every year — funding consumption and real estate, almost never productive business. This is not a capital problem, it is a trust problem. We build the missing infrastructure: independent verification, legal structuring, quarterly accountability.
Your funds never pass through us: we act as adviser and controller only.
A selection of supported projects, presented with the discretion our mandates require.
Irrigation intelligente pour périmètres rizicoles, 400 ha pilotes.
Structuration & levée de fonds · Sénégal
Unité de transformation de mil et maïs, distribution grande consommation.
Conseil stratégique & mise en relation · Sénégal
Suite de gestion pour PME francophones, 200+ clients actifs.
Accompagnement du porteur · Côte d'Ivoire
The course of a typical mandate, from first conversation to follow-up — with no grey areas.
30 minutes · free
You set out your situation; we tell you frankly whether and how we can help. No commitment, no jargon.
The field, the meetings, the projects: the tangible side of our mandates.
Le terrain d'abord
Visuel de démonstration — remplacez-le par vos photos de mission
Rencontres investisseurs
Visuel de démonstration — à remplacer
Le capital est là, les projets aussi — c'est la passerelle qui manque. Analyse du vrai goulot d'étranglement du financement en zone UEMOA, et des trois chantiers qui rendent un projet finançable.
Analyse de la filière de transformation céréalière au Sénégal : capacités installées, goulots logistiques et modèles économiques finançables.
Pourquoi le SaaS B2B francophone est la classe d'actifs la plus sous-estimée de la région : unit economics, rétention et cas d'école.
The questions we actually get asked — and the ones people don't always dare to ask.
No — our business is advisory, not capital management. Our revenue comes from mandates, which guarantees our independence of judgement. When we occasionally co-invest in a file, it is stated explicitly, both on the portfolio entry and to the investors concerned.
The first step is free: the Financeability Index, online, in three minutes. The in-depth assessment is a 400,000 FCFA fixed fee. Broader mandates (structuring, introductions) are quoted individually, with part of the introduction fee tied to the success of the deal — we earn when you raise.
Yes — it is in fact the most common situation, and no ground for refusal. Formalisation is the first step of our structuring support. Start with the Index: it will tell you precisely where you stand and what to fix first.
We decline more files than we present: projects outside our sectors of conviction, files whose fundamentals don't justify capital, or founders looking for a front rather than an adviser. Our selectivity is exactly what investors are buying.
Your submission is readable by our team only and never passed to a third party without your written consent. Sensitive documents do not travel through the public form. On the investor side, access to reserved resources is authenticated, authorised account by account, and logged.
That is precisely what the Diaspora Bridge is for: independent verification of the project and its leadership, legal structuring of your entry into the capital, and quarterly reporting. Your funds never pass through us — we are your eyes on the ground, not your banker.
For an already-structured file: four to nine months between the start of introductions and closing. If the file first needs to be brought up to standard, add three to six months of structuring. Anyone promising faster is setting you up for disappointment.
On an introduction mandate, part of our fee is tied to success: if you don't raise, we don't collect it. That is also why we are selective at the door — we don't commit our time, or your money, to a file we don't believe in.
Each journey opens with a short commitment and no obligation to continue. It is the best way to judge us on results.