The serial entrepreneur, who plans to build the Amazon of Africa, is based in Mali where he has established several tech companies.  

Boubacar Biro Baldé (photo) is a Guinean computer scientist and tech entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Sodishop, an e-commerce platform founded in 2018.  

“We sell everything, to everyone, everywhere,” Boubacar was saying in 2019 indicating the broad range of products available on the platform. 

Although it was founded in Mali, it is also operational in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire with over about 3,000 active buyers (Sodishopers) and more than 1,000 active sellers. It aims to scale to the whole of Africa, therefore, fulfilling its dream of being able to deliver even to the remotest areas on the continent. To attract the resources required for its ambition, it enrolled in the MEST Africa Challenge, launched on August 5, 2022. It made it to the regional round awaiting the continental round, which will entitle two winners to a check of US$50,000. 

The CEO is also the principal manager of Sodifood, a food products’ sales and delivery platform he founded in Mali in 2020. He also leads iGandal, an e-learning platform he founded in 2020.  Also, since 2015, he is the CEO of Technologie House, a tech company specializing in digital security, software, and website development, among others.

His entrepreneurial career builds on the experience he acquired during his professional career which started in 2009. That year, he joined JIU HUA Technology as the technical and after-sales service manager. The following year, he was hired by IT equipment and services provider SOMATI in Guinea and at the same time founded the social network Africa60. In 2013, SOMATI sent him to Mali as the company's director in the country. He remained in that post until 2015 when he launched Technologie House, kicking off his entrepreneurship career.  

Melchior Koba