Partech

Partech is a global technology investment firm headquartered in Paris, with additional offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco. Established 40 years ago in San Francisco, the firm focuses on providing capital, operational experience, and strategic support to entrepreneurs from seed to growth stage. Partech manages a portfolio of 220 companies across 40 countries and four continents, emphasizing collaboration and partnership with the founders it backs. With assets under management totaling €2.5 billion, Partech is dedicated to fostering innovation and success in the technology sector.

Klaudyna Augler

Senior Associate

Benayoun, Omri

General Partner

Tom Le Bras

Associate

Collon, Cyril

General Partner

Bruno Crémel

General Partner

Dème, Tidjane

General Partner

Louis Dessal

Associate

Victor Huberson

Principal

Imbert, Alison

Senior Associate

Alexis Lancien

Senior Associate

Romain Lavault

General Partner

Malekzadeh, Reza

General Partner

Marchand, Matthieu

Associate

Aya Murr

Senior Associate

Christelle Pariat

CFO

Patouillaud, Jean-Marc

General Partner

Carlota Armero Saura

Analyst

Paul Vider

Principal

Simone Riva Violetta

Senior Principal

Whiting, Andrew

Principal

Past deals in Africa

Nomba

Series B in 2023
Nomba is a fintech company focused on providing accessible and affordable financial software solutions for businesses in Africa. The company offers a range of services, including business savings accounts, joint savings options, card payments, and POS terminal management. Nomba's platform enables users to perform various financial transactions, such as paying bills, transferring money, purchasing airtime and TV subscriptions, and managing electricity payments. Customers can engage with Nomba's services through multiple digital channels, including mobile, web, and USSD, as well as through a network of agents. By streamlining these financial processes, Nomba aims to enhance the financial capabilities of businesses and individuals across the continent.

Tugende

Series B in 2022
Tugende is a financial services company based in Kampala, Uganda, focused on empowering informal sector entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized enterprises. Founded in 2012, Tugende primarily assists motorcycle taxi drivers in transitioning from renting to owning their motorcycles within eighteen months, thereby enhancing their income, job security, and road safety. In addition to motorcycles, Tugende provides business assets such as special hire taxis, matatus, and boat engines, as well as supplementary assets for existing clients like smartphones and salon equipment. The company also offers a range of services, including care services for health and life insurance, safety training, and value-added services like genuine parts and maintenance support. By addressing the credit gap and facilitating asset ownership, Tugende helps clients achieve financial independence and sustainable livelihoods.

Reliance Health

Series B in 2022
Reliance Health uses technology to make quality healthcare more affordable and accessible in emerging markets. Using an integrated approach that includes affordable health insurance, telemedicine, and a combination of partner and proprietary healthcare facilities.

Freterium

Seed Round in 2021
Freterium is a collaborative SaaS that connects organizations, people and technologies in the logistics value chain to help them move things. Their cloud-based transport management platform offers the easiest and most automated way for manufacturers, retailers and logistics providers, to manage their daily road freight shipments.

Wave Mobile Money

Series A in 2021
Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.

Yoco

Series C in 2021
Yoco is an African technology company. We create opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses to get paid, run and grow their business through a single platform. Our growing product ecosystem includes payments (offline and online), lending and business software. Today Yoco processes US$ billions annually for over 300,000 small businesses.

inyad

Series A in 2021
Inyad specializes in creating mobile applications that assist small and medium-sized businesses in managing and expanding their operations. The company focuses on empowering these businesses by providing tools that enable them to record customer debts and payments, facilitate bookkeeping, and access an online selling platform. By offering comprehensive solutions tailored to the needs of offline businesses, Inyad aims to enhance their ability to thrive in the digital marketplace.

Tugende

Series A in 2021
Tugende is a financial services company based in Kampala, Uganda, focused on empowering informal sector entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized enterprises. Founded in 2012, Tugende primarily assists motorcycle taxi drivers in transitioning from renting to owning their motorcycles within eighteen months, thereby enhancing their income, job security, and road safety. In addition to motorcycles, Tugende provides business assets such as special hire taxis, matatus, and boat engines, as well as supplementary assets for existing clients like smartphones and salon equipment. The company also offers a range of services, including care services for health and life insurance, safety training, and value-added services like genuine parts and maintenance support. By addressing the credit gap and facilitating asset ownership, Tugende helps clients achieve financial independence and sustainable livelihoods.

Money Fellows

Series A in 2020
Money Fellows is a collaborative lending and savings platform designed to help individuals access interest-free credit and achieve better savings outcomes. The platform allows users to form circles with friends and family, enabling them to pool their resources into a common fund. Participants can contribute to this fund and take turns withdrawing the total amount, facilitating a supportive financial network. By leveraging social connections, Money Fellows provides a unique approach to saving and borrowing, promoting financial collaboration among users.

Gebeya

Seed Round in 2020
Gebeya Inc. is an education technology and online software outsourcing marketplace based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with additional teams in Kenya, Senegal, North America, and the UK. Founded in 2016, the company specializes in providing industry-specific training in software engineering, design, and digital skills. Its offerings include G-Talent, which connects companies with specialized developers for short- or long-term projects; G-Subscription, allowing SMEs and startups to access temporary IT professionals; and G-Made, which assembles a core team of engineers to deliver complete products. Gebeya also engages in company branding and multimedia services such as commercial videography and animations. Committed to fostering Africa's digital transformation, the company aims to leverage global job opportunities to showcase the continent's competitive talent.

Reliance Health

Series A in 2020
Reliance Health uses technology to make quality healthcare more affordable and accessible in emerging markets. Using an integrated approach that includes affordable health insurance, telemedicine, and a combination of partner and proprietary healthcare facilities.

Kudi

Series A in 2019
KUDI is a financial service provider focused on providing access to electronic banking and financial services by leveraging conversational interfaces, natural language processing and artificial intelligence to provider faster access, frictionless experience, and ultimately boost financial inclusion in emerging markets. KUDI is enabling secured financial transactions via Facebook, Telegram, Slack and Skype. KUDI's focus is the African market with a primary focus on the Nigerian Payment ecosystem and the company does this in partnership with e-payment regulators, a leading commercial bank, and an international payment processor.

Kudi

Series A in 2019
KUDI is a financial service provider focused on providing access to electronic banking and financial services by leveraging conversational interfaces, natural language processing and artificial intelligence to provider faster access, frictionless experience, and ultimately boost financial inclusion in emerging markets. KUDI is enabling secured financial transactions via Facebook, Telegram, Slack and Skype. KUDI's focus is the African market with a primary focus on the Nigerian Payment ecosystem and the company does this in partnership with e-payment regulators, a leading commercial bank, and an international payment processor.

Wasoko

Seed Round in 2019
Wasoko transforms access to essential goods and services by connecting small shops to the digital economy. It increases sales and market coverage for companies in emerging markets. It also enables informal retailers to order products at any time via SMS or mobile app, and receive free same-day delivery to their store. This makes it easier for shopkeepers to source goods and helps manufacturers ensure that their products are consistently available to consumers.

Yoco

Series B in 2018
Yoco is an African technology company. We create opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses to get paid, run and grow their business through a single platform. Our growing product ecosystem includes payments (offline and online), lending and business software. Today Yoco processes US$ billions annually for over 300,000 small businesses.

Frontier Car Group

Series A in 2017
Frontier Car Group is a Berlin-based startup that operates used automotive marketplaces in emerging market economies, including Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Pakistan, and Indonesia. The company aims to enhance the efficiency of buying and selling used cars through a digital marketplace that offers users an instant price quote for their vehicles and facilitates quick inspections to complete sales. By leveraging technology, creating infrastructure, and implementing innovative business models, Frontier Car Group ensures that all stakeholders benefit from the automotive trading process. Additionally, the company is involved in joint ventures with OLX in India and Poland, further expanding its reach and impact in the used car market.

Allot

Series E in 2006
Allot Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT, TASE: ALLT) is a provider of leading innovative network intelligence and security solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide, enhancing value to their customers. Our solutions are deployed globally for network and application analytics, traffic control and shaping, network-based security services, and more. Allot’s multi-service platforms are deployed by over 500 mobile, fixed and cloud service providers and over 1000 enterprises. Our industry-leading network-based security as a service solution has achieved over 50% penetration with some service providers and is already used by over 23 million subscribers in Europe. Allot Communications Ltd. was founded in 1996.

Allot

Series D in 2004
Allot Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT, TASE: ALLT) is a provider of leading innovative network intelligence and security solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide, enhancing value to their customers. Our solutions are deployed globally for network and application analytics, traffic control and shaping, network-based security services, and more. Allot’s multi-service platforms are deployed by over 500 mobile, fixed and cloud service providers and over 1000 enterprises. Our industry-leading network-based security as a service solution has achieved over 50% penetration with some service providers and is already used by over 23 million subscribers in Europe. Allot Communications Ltd. was founded in 1996.
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