He is an IT consultant with over 20 years of experience working with multinationals like Google and Cosine Communications. As the General Partner of Partech Africa, he has invested in several African startups.

Tidjane Deme is a Senegalese investor and computer scientist. The Math-Physics and computer science graduate is one of the general partners of Partech Africa.

He was appointed to that position in 2016. Since then, he has overseen Partech's investments and strategic support to African startups that leverage technology to address key issues in emerging markets.

Some of the startups currently in the VC firm's portfolio are TradeDepot, Yoco, Wave, Nomba (ex-Kudi), Gebeya, ChatDesk, Reliance Health, MoneyFellows, TerraPay, Tugende, and Almentor.

Apart from being an investor, Tidjane is also an entrepreneur. In 2002, he co-founded CommonSys, an IT project management, and strategic consultancy firm he led, as the CEO, till 2008.

He gained international fame in 2009 when Google recruited him as its Francophone African Lead. In 2014, he was promoted to the position of head of business development in Africa. In that position, he worked on Project Link, a project that aimed to boost access to affordable broadband internet by deploying the needed infrastructure.

He is the initiator of several programs to advance internet use in Senegal. They include "Tablette Cafe" (an internet cafe where only computer tablets are used) in Dakar and Journal Rappé, a Youtube channel whose news presenters "rap the news."

His professional career started in 1999 when he joined the IT company Capgemini as a junior consultant (later senior consultant) in the telecom and media sectors. In 2002, he was recruited by Silicon Valley startup Cosine Communications, as a consultant.

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