Fatoumata Bâ is the Founder, Executive Chair, and Managing Partner of Janngo Capital. See sector focus and contact routes.
Fatoumata Bâ is the Founder, Executive Chair, and Managing Partner of Janngo Capital, a pan-African venture firm she launched in 2018 after serving as Jumia’s founding CEO in Côte d’Ivoire and managing director in Nigeria. Her investment thesis targets early-stage “tech for good” startups across Africa that use technology to expand access to essential services, with a specific mandate to allocate 50% of investments to women-founded or led companies. Janngo primarily backs companies at the seed and Series A stages, focusing on geographies across the continent while prioritizing sectors like health tech, edtech, medtech, and women’s entrepreneurship. The firm’s current portfolio includes 21 companies, 56% of which are female-founded and led, and it aims to back 25–30 new companies with its second fund. Notable portfolio companies include Jumia (where she previously led operations), though specific current Janngo investments beyond sector examples are not explicitly named in available sources. Bâ distinguishes her approach by advocating for technology-driven “leapfrog development” in Africa that goes beyond market entry to deliver socially conscio
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