Sinergi Burkina

The firm’s team page lists eleven professionals, including Aboubacar Sanou, Aïcha Zio Savadogo, and Job Zongo, but does not publish specific titles or an investment committee structure. Given its link to Investisseurs & Partenaires, decision-making likely involves both local senior staff and I&P head-office oversight, though the precise authority split is not publicly detailed.

Néré Capital draws proprietary deal flow from its anchor sponsors — local Burkinabé entrepreneurs, Société Générale Burkina Faso, and the national reinsurer SONAR — as well as from its pan-African I&P network, which includes sister firms in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mali, and six other Sub-Saharan countries. That dual-local-and-continental sourcing is a structural advantage: it matches I&P’s top-down origination with bottom-up referrals from Burkinabé business owners on the cap table.

It operates as a private asset manager, not a family office. Néré Capital is a privately held Burkinabé company capitalized by a mix of local private investors and international institutions including Investisseurs & Partenaires, Total, SIDI, and Incluvest. The firm manages third-party capital and runs a dedicated impact mandate.

Néré Capital spans the entire SME lifecycle: seed and startup rounds, growth equity, and outright buyouts. Its stated sweet spot is minority equity with a board seat, and it typically deploys between 20 and 200 million FCFA per transaction. The firm also maintains an acceleration and advisory practice that sometimes precedes a balance-sheet investment.

Based on its self-description as a direct-investment vehicle — minority equity with technical assistance — the firm does not appear to operate as a fund-of-funds. Its model is company-level deployment, complemented by advisory and acceleration mandates, not LP commitments to external GPs.

I&P is a founding shareholder and strategic partner. Sinergi Burkina is one node in I&P’s network of roughly nine country-specific SME vehicles across Sub-Saharan Africa. I&P provides the institutional framework, while the local team — led by Aboubacar Sanou — handles day-to-day investment and portfolio management.

Yes. The firm explicitly frames its work around the UN Sustainable Development Goals and publishes an ESG approach on its website, covering environmental, social, and governance factors. Each portfolio company receives a tailored ESG action plan as part of Néré Capital’s technical-assistance package.