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Wuri Ventures
Wuri Ventures is a venture firm focused on investing in African startups. It runs an Access Fund for accredited investors alongside an institutional fund,...
Wuri Ventures
Wuri Ventures is a venture firm focused on investing in African startups. It runs an Access Fund for accredited investors alongside an institutional fund, sourcing deals across industries and geographies on the continent. Investments follow pillars including real-economy technology, multi-country scaling, and leapfrogging.
General information
Firm type
Venture Capital
Year founded
2020
Location
Region
Africa
Country
Senegal
City
Dakar
Corporate office
Dakar, Senegal
Principals
Tijan Watt
Co-founder and General Partner
Jerome Cretegny
Co-founder and General Partner
Mbatang Acha
Senior Associate
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What geographic markets does Wuri Ventures focus on?
Wuri concentrates its capital in francophone West Africa, with particular emphasis on Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Benin. These countries share the CFA franc currency, harmonized business regulations through UEMOA, and rising mobile penetration rates, creating a roughly 140-million-person addressable market for digital services. The firm's Dakar headquarters positions it inside the region's most mature startup ecosystem.
Which sectors does Wuri Ventures prioritize?
Wuri directs capital into FinTech, AgriTech, HealthTech, and enterprise software platforms suited to low-connectivity environments. Its FinTech interest centers on mobile money infrastructure and merchant payment systems. AgriTech investments address supply-chain opacity and cooperative management for smallholder farmers. HealthTech targets telemedicine and pharmaceutical distribution across rural and peri-urban West Africa.
How does Wuri Ventures differ from broader Africa-focused venture funds?
Most pan-African venture funds concentrate their francophone West Africa exposure to a handful of later-stage deals in Abidjan and Dakar, while maintaining their primary portfolio gravity in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Egypt. Wuri is one of the few early-stage specialists operating solely within the francophone corridor, where language, legal tradition, and mobile-money infrastructure differ materially from Anglophone markets.
What is the firm's approach to co-investment?
Wuri's public communications do not detail a formal co-investment policy. Given the thin institutional-investor base in francophone West Africa, deal structures frequently involve syndicates with regional angel networks, diaspora investors, and the small number of Paris-based Africa-focused early-stage funds. No named co-investment partners have been disclosed.
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