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He is a serial entrepreneur with over five companies created in Morocco and Dubai. His companies include Ezzal, a startup that aims to facilitate the transport of goods across Africa and the Middle East.
Mohamed Badr (photo) is an Egyptian serial entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of Ezzal, a mobile platform that aims to facilitate the transport of goods.
Founded in 2020, Ezzal allows vehicle owners to offer services to anyone who needs to transport items -appliances, furniture, machinery, or materials. It helps businesses and individuals find the right and reliable carrier for their needs and avoid being surprised by high costs and poor service quality.
Mohamed Badr launched the app in Morocco instead of Egypt where he was born and raised "due to the economic conditions in Egypt, such as inflation and the low local currency, in addition to the authorities imposing a lot of additional fees and petty cash that did not exist in the past, such as security permits."
The app is now accessible in every city in Morocco and neighboring countries like Spain, Gibraltar, Portugal, Mauritania, and Senegal. The company also plans to expand to other countries in North Africa and the Middle East but has yet to make plans to expand to Egypt.
Before launching Ezzal, in 2017, Mohamed Badr co-founded LarusDubai, a Dubai-based startup that provides freight forwarding, customs clearance, transportation, and courier services. In 2021, he launched Megamaa, a rain management tech that created a natural material of the same name to solve flooding problems. In submerged cities, the material can be thrown around before rains. It then collects rainwater that can be used in drought-affected areas or to irrigate farms.
In 2022, the serial entrepreneur founded Murabetsport, a crowd and event management company. He also founded Nazyef, an electric car charger manufacturer, and Neque contumelia, an artificial intelligence technology that aims to reduce injuries in soccer.
His professional career began in 2014 at Engineers Club of Alexandria where he was the inventory control supervisor. In 2015, he was hired by IEREK (International Experts for Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange), an international institution dedicated to knowledge exchange and research improvement, as an event coordinator. He worked there until the launch of LarusDubai.
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She is an entrepreneur concerned with women’s well-being. With their interest in mind, she co-developed an inclusive, modern, and responsive health system.
Fatoumata Ly (photo) is a Guinean-born entrepreneur and the co-founder/CEO of Ninti, a healthtech company that develops solutions to offer women the best sexual and reproductive care.
Her startup, founded in 2021, aims to make healthcare accessible, inclusive, and personalized so that individuals can take care of their sexual and reproductive health and also support others.
According to the founders, Ninti was born out of their own painful experiences. "With hundreds of conversations with people navigating complex sexual and reproductive health journeys, I've seen firsthand the barriers and stigmas that can prevent women from accessing the care they need. That's why I co-founded Ninti - to break down those barriers and provide women with the resources and support they need to make informed decisions about their health," Fatoumata Ly says in her Linkedin “About” section.
Ninti has designed a digital platform that allows employers to offer data-driven content to their employees to let them navigate their healthcare journey from preconception to menopause. Through the platform, employees can also receive care from professionals and join the Ninti community and participate in events and circles.
Ninti’s CEO is, since November 2019, the vice president of SINGA France, an international civic organization that accelerates the inclusion of immigrants. She is also a member of the board of Learn Afghanistan and SISTA, an NGO that encourages investments in women-led and women-owned businesses. In 2018, she co-founded You're Welcome App, an app to generate additional revenue for hotels. She was the platform’s operations manager until 2020.
She entered the professional world in 2011, after her bachelor's in language science. She first worked as an event coordinator for Efma (now Qorus), a nonprofit financial services association. In 2014, she was promoted to the position of corporate events manager.
Between 2014 and 2019, she was the local leader of the Levo League in France, a thriving online and offline community of young professionals, role models, and innovative businesses. After a career break in 2020, she works at Bayes Impact, an organization with a mission to create citizen-run public services, as an independent senior project manager in 2021.
From 2021 to 2022, she was the project manager for the Covid-19 Ad Memoriam Institute, which fights Covid-19. With her team, she created a platform where citizens can share their Covid-19 experience.
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He gained experience in e-commerce and online delivery while working for Jumia in Rwanda. He took advantage of the unicorn's departure from his country to launch his online food ordering and delivery business.
Albert Munyabugingo (photo) is a telecommunications expert who graduated from the Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA) with a bachelor's degree in networking and communication in 2014. He is the founder and CEO of the Rwandan delivery service Vuba Vuba Africa.
Founded in January 2020, Vuba Vuba Africa is an online food trading and on-demand delivery company. It is one of the most popular delivery services in Rwanda. Born shortly before the coronavirus pandemic, the service has experienced over 40% growth during the pandemic. The growth was spurred by the containment measures, which caused a 450% increase in online transactions, as of May 2020, according to the National Bank of Rwanda.
By 2021, the startup had already received more than 500,000 orders in major cities across the country and 300 partnerships with businesses, stores, restaurants, and boutiques. It was employing 26 office staff and over 100 couriers.
Most of Vuba Vuba Africa's employees are former Jumia Rwanda staff. Indeed, before founding Vuba Vuba Africa, Albert Munyabugingo worked for Jumia Rwanda, first as operations manager between (December 2014 and November 2017) and then as general manager from July 2017 to January 2020. When it decided to leave Rwanda (in 2019), Jumia also left behind unemployed staff and couriers. Seeing an opportunity from what could have been a misfortune for some, the entrepreneur filled the gap by founding his delivery service and hiring the former Jumia staff who had already worked under his management.
His professional career began in 2012 at Tigo Rwanda, a brand of the telecom company Millicom, where he was the customer service manager. In May 2014, he joined Hellofood Rwanda, an online food ordering company, as the content and customer service manager.
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After years of practicing as a nurse midwife, she upskilled herself in business administration. She now runs a digital platform that connects employers and graduates.
Lizane Füzy (photo) is a South African business leader and nurse midwife who graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2016, earning a master's in nursing. She is also a business administration graduate from the Stellenbosch Business School and the founder/general manager of the career management platform Gradlinc.
She launched Gradlinc, in 2022, as a project of Stellenbosch University. The cloud-based platform connects employers and graduates, allowing credible and verified graduates to access existing opportunities. Its sophisticated and unique matching algorithm enables employers to receive graduate profiles that match their job requirements. It provides a more affordable and comprehensive alternative to higher education institutions' career offices.
Lizane Füzy recently stated that her platform was "rolling out new modules for entrepreneurship focusing on students that want to start their ventures to ensure that they start on the right foot thanks to this learning management system and online courses where students can find all the tools they need for career readiness and starting their first job. We will also be opening up the platform to alums from tertiary institutions."
Currently, she is the commercialization project manager at the University of Stellenbosch Enterprises (Innovus), the technology transfer division of Stellenbosch University. She is the owner of Midwife Online, a platform that offers affordable online prenatal courses for expectant parents in a safe space with easy access to credible, evidence-based information.
She is, since 2010, a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society, “the world's largest collegiate honor society for graduate and undergraduate students.”
Her professional career began in 2011 at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital where she was a nurse and professional midwife. She held the same position at Tygerberg Hospital from January 2013 to February 2016 and at Mediclinic from March to December 2016. From 2021 to 2022, she was a midwife and prenatal instructor for the parenting education platform The Baby Academy.
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He is a web, mobile, and software developer with several applications to his credit and several awards that celebrate his innovative and impactful solutions. Thanks to a digital payment system he designed, he facilitates commercial and financial transactions in the DRC.
Faysal Axam (photo) is a Congolese entrepreneur who graduated from the Higher Institute of Computer Science and Management in Goma with a Bachelor's degree in business Informatics. He is renowned as the founder and CEO of Faysal Company, a fintech company that offers digital services and solutions to businesses and individuals in DRC.
His company, founded in 2018, designs business, web, and mobile applications and offers IT consulting services. In 2022, it officially launched Tap and Pay, a multifunctional payment system that allows users to pay or receive payments.
Tap and Pay is tailored to the needs of African markets and its pricing is affordable for most people in developing countries. This explains its seemingly rapid adoption because, in March 2023, Faysal Axam explained that the solution had over 6,000 users.
An experienced computer programmer, Faysal Axam created his first android app (Ohada) in 2013, to detail the entire Ohada business laws for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Since 2013, he is the database manager of Share Solution Technology. In 2016, he created a mobile interactive lake monitoring system that can communicate with drones to facilitate sea rescues. In 2018, he also founded Faysal Foundation, a nonprofit organization designed to train and connect youths for socio-economic transformation.
He has won several awards and honors for solving social problems in DR Congo. In 2018, he was nominated for the Seedstars World Competition that took place in Kinshasa. The following year, he was a finalist at the African Rethink Awards in Abidjan and nominated at the Fintech Summit in Kigali. In 2020, he was named one of Africa's top 50 digital champions in the Africa Digital Festival report. Then, in 2021, he made it to the top 3 of the Innovation Time Challenge- For The Innovation Rebranding Africa Award.
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A nurse by training, he embarked on entrepreneurship to solve social problems. He has founded two businesses, the youngest of which is helping underbanked individuals boost their creditworthiness.
Joseph Ezekwem (photo) is a Nigerian entrepreneur, business owner, and nurse who graduated from the College of Nursing (Our Lady of Mercy Hospital) in 2009. Also a 2018 graduate of Western Governors University, he is the founder and CEO of fintech startup Ruubby.
Ruubby, launched on February 1, 2023, in Nigeria, was set up to encourage citizens to actively submit their financial data when making purchases. It is a financial marketplace that allows users to build or improve their credit score, allowing them to access better financial products and improve their creditworthiness.
The startup also provides a business management tool that allows business owners to set up online stores and deliver customer services.
Ruubby wants “to provide [the] opportunity for local stores to have their stores on our platform and be able to sell to anyone in any state in Nigeria. The main concern for us is to build the infrastructure and seek the right partnership to make this business a success. Our teams are working tirelessly to address this, and I am very proud of them,” Joseph Ezekwem said in February 2023.
The nurse-turned-entrepreneur is also the founder and CEO of Roland Health, an online homecare marketplace founded in October 2022. His marketplace allows caregivers to reach a wider audience and users to easily hire them.
In 2021, he was still a practicing nurse at Favorite Healthcare Staffing in the United States. Between February and April 2022, he worked as a nurse at Baylor Scott & White Health. Then, in May 2022, he was appointed President and CEO of Umpayas, a peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace for services such as car rental, package delivery, food delivery, virtual office, etc. He worked there for 4 months.
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He is an experienced DevOps, network, and database administrator. Elected to head the Benin chapter of the Internet Society, his role is to make Internet access inclusive while raising awareness on proper uses.
Hervé Hounzandji (photo) is a Beninese DevOps systems engineer. He is a graduate of the National School of Applied Economics and Management (ENEAM Benin), where he earned a higher technical diploma in business informatics in 1997. In 2004 he also earned the DESS (old diploma equivalent to the Master) in network and system administration from the University of Lorraine. He was recently elected president of the Benin chapter of the Internet Society.
The Internet Society is a nonprofit organization that promotes internet governance and facilitates access to the internet. It has chapters in several countries. In Benin, its chapter (ISOC Benin) is led by an office that strives for the development of the internet and makes it accessible to everyone.
Hervé Hounzandji, who is officially heading that office since February 25, 2023, presented his roadmap during a press briefing on March 3, 2023. The roadmap is themed "Internet Society Benin Chapter and digital policy in Benin.” According to the new president, ISOC Benin wants to optimize training in several areas while focusing on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. The organization will also initiate a series of discussion forums on issues related to the use and evolution of the Internet in technical, commercial, and social areas.
"In Benin, we prioritize actions aimed at promoting safe and cheaper internet accessible to everyone as well as awareness and capacity building,” the president said.
Since 2017, the tech professional is a DevOPS system engineer at MNT (Mutuelle Nationale Territoriale) in France. He is a senior instructor for the Benin DNS Forum, an annual exchange on Internet and DNS (a domain name system) issues.
He is a former international volunteer at the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. During that volunteering tenure, he served as the local technical manager in Benin. In January 2006, he was hired as a system administrator at the Nancy-Metz rectorate. Nine months later, he became the system and network administrator of the University of Lorraine. In 2013, he was appointed system and database administrator at the Nancy Regional and University Hospital, a position he held until 2017.
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He is a medical scientist specializing in radiology, biomedical chemistry, and molecular biophysics. He holds several patents and is among the leading scientists of the 21st century.
Samuel Achilefu (photo) is a Nigerian professor of radiology, biomedical engineering, biochemistry, and molecular biophysics. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
He graduated from the University of Nancy, France, with a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Materials Science, in 1991. He also completed postdoctoral training in oxygen transport in biological systems and hematological science at the University of Oxford, UK. With his team, Dr. Samuel Achilefu invented cancer visualization goggles.
Before those goggles, it was difficult for surgeons to completely remove the cancerous tumor during surgeries. Thanks to the high-tech, infrared goggles, doctors can now distinguish malignant cells from normal ones during surgeries.
Surgeons told me that one of their problems is seeing beautiful static images of MRI and CT scans—but then when you go into the operating room you have truly nothing. It’s like walking in the dark,” Samuel Achilefu explained in late 2014.
His goggles have been used in more than 27 operations on patients with skin, liver, and breast cancers. Samuel Achilefu and his team explained that the cells must first be injected with an infrared fluorescent marker, allowing malignant cells to glow and get detected.
As an inventor, Samuel Achilefu already has over 65 U.S. patents. He is the author of more than 300 published scientific papers. His professional career began in 1993 at Mallinckrodt Medical where he was a senior researcher. In 2001, he joined Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis as a professor and director of the optical radiology laboratory.
The inventor has received dozens of awards for his work in healthcare. In 2014, he received the St. Louis Award and the Medical Innovation Award. The following year, he won the St. Louis Innovator Award. The same year, he became the first recipient of the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Breast Cancer Research Program and received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the US Department of Defense.
In 2018, he received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research. The following year, he was also awarded the prestigious Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award and, in 2021, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
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She has over 10 years of experience in e-commerce, banking and finance, marketing, and branding in Africa, Asia, and the US. She founded a company that uses AI to help businesses effectively manage their inventory.
Marie-Reine Seshie (photo) is a Ghanaian economist who graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, earning a bachelor of arts in economics. In 2019, she graduated from the Asia School of Business with a master's degree in management and business administration.
She is widely known as the CEO and co-founder of Kola Market, a startup that supports businesses in their sales and marketing activities by leveraging artificial intelligence.
Kola Market, founded in 2021, describes itself as a result-as-a-service company that offers innovative artificial intelligence-powered inventory management, marketing, and sales solutions. Its smart inventory forecasting and management system uses sales data from companies' stores, as well as other external indicators such as inflation, fuel prices, weather, etc., to generate perfect reorder levels daily, so companies can focus on selling and maximizing profits. On March 8, 2023, It was named on the list of the 15 startups that will take part in the inaugural class of Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders.
Its CEO is, since 2021, the social media marketing manager of ASB African & Caribbean Foundation, an association created by Asia School of Business students and alumni to uplift “the marginalized.” Her professional career began in 2012, at UBA Group where she was an accounts operations executive. In 2013, she joined First Atlantic Bank Ghana as a management trainee in the business development department. The following year, she continued her traineeship as an executive trainee in the business development and corporate finance departments. Then, in 2016, she was appointed assistant banking assistant.
In May 2019, she was hired by the e-commerce company, Jumia Group, as a project manager before being promoted to marketing manager the same year. In September 2020, she became the marketing manager of The/Studio, an e-commerce company based in California.
Ms. Marie-Reine is one of 22 finalists for the prestigious Aurora Tech Award 2023, which celebrates the female founders whose projects have greatly impacted global development.
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He strongly believes that with technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, he can optimize the efficiency of healthcare services. This is why he joined forces with one of his colleagues to launch DoctorAI, a health tech startup that connects patients to healthcare professionals.
Kevin Muragijimana (photo) is a Rwandan physician who graduated from the University of Rwanda in 2019. He is the CEO and one of the co-founders of DoctorAI, a medical technology company that wants to modernize healthcare services in Africa.
The company, founded in 2019, uses artificial intelligence to detect breast cancer, chest, and heart diseases, and malaria parasites (among other conditions) from X-rays and blood-smearing tests with accuracies exceeding 90%. It plans to offer other services such as telescreening, telehealth education, telepharmacy, and telemedicine. Its app, which integrates all of its existing services, allows laymen to voice their health concerns, doctors to improve community wellness, pharmacists to easily dispense drugs, and researchers to impact the world.
“We are offering other services that will be available later, like online consultations with specialist doctors and licensed pharmacists. The market will also include telemedicine and telepharmacy. We plan to go global. We have made our distribution channels so smooth in a way that our software programs within the DoctorAI app are available to everyone with a smartphone, anywhere in the world,” Kevin told Disrupt Africa in March 2023.
Aside from being the CEO of DoctorAI, the latter is also the coordinating medical consultant of AFRI-ONC, a cancer information and research institution. He is also a doctor at the Rwandan Ministry of Health. Before founding his company, he interned at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bicêtre in France in 2019.
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With her all-woman company, she wants to inspire and guide more Senegalese women into digital professions. She is also planning several impact projects.
Ndeye Saly Dione (photo) is a Senegalese web and mobile developer. Concerned about women’s digital inclusion, she founded tech startup LingeeruTech in 2022, after graduating from the third cohort of Sonatel Academy, a free coding school.
LingeeruTech is a combination of a Wolof and an English word. It means “tech queens.” Truthful to its name, it works on strong impact projects, mostly with women, to identify daily challenges facing populations and address those challenges.
In an interview with We Are Tech, Ms. Ndeye explained that she launched LingeeruTech to get women involved in the ongoing digital transformation. "It all started with an observation I made [during my training] at Sonatel Academy. In my class, there were not many women. Even when I was a web and mobile development intern at water utility SEN'EAU, I was the only woman on the team. […] In my close circles, I didn’t have a female that could serve as a role model in the digital sector. By setting up that startup, I want to serve as that role model and show young women who are still studying or struggling with professional orientations that women can work in the digital industry,” she explained.
The young entrepreneur indicates that she plans to launch a training center where women and young girls who usually drop out of school early can be introduced to coding and digital tools. The aim, she says, is to give women the skills they need to work with dignity.
Currently, with her team, she is developing two key projects. The first is Fayy Fepp (pay everywhere in Wolof), a fintech solution that aims to help businesses and merchants easily accept mobile payments through QR Coding technology.
The second one is Samamënmën, which means “my skills” in Wolof. It aims to enhance the skills of every Senegalese to enable them to sell their skills and get hired based on those skills, not on the diplomas they have.
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Thanks to the e-tourism company she cofounded some four years ago, she allows Tunisians and foreigners to take a dip in the past of some Tunisian cultural locations. The XR reality company has earned her several awards and distinctions.
Houda Bakir (pictured) is the CEO of Historiar, a deep tech startup. The startup, founded in 2019, combines artificial intelligence and augmented reality to offer a digitized version of some Tunisian centuries-old historical and archeological sites, allowing tourists and curious individuals to visit them using tech equipment.
During the 46th edition of the Dougga International Festival, held in August 2022, guests were able to gauge Historiar's expertise by going back several years in time to contemplate the archaeological site of Dougga. In February 2023, this expertise earned Houda Bakir a spot in the fifth edition of Orange Fab Tunisia’s acceleration program.
The CEO, born in Carthage, Tunisia, is a graduate of the National Higher Engineering School of Tunis (ENSIT). In 2009, she earned a master’s in electrical engineering and, about seven years later, she obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering with a specialization in medical image segmentation. Since 2021, she is the Vice President of Tunisian Startups, a network of entrepreneurs that aims to create a friendly environment for successful and budding entrepreneurs alike. In 2018, she co-founded Super-Viz, a startup specializing in artificial intelligence and computer vision.
A post-doctoral researcher at ENSIT's Productics Research Center laboratory since 2013, Houda Bakir founded Grace Light Tunisia, an interior design and IT service company. She led the company -founded in 2013- until 2014.
The Tunisian entrepreneur started her professional career in 2009, as a contractual assistant professor at ENSIT. Some months later, she became an assistant professor. Then, in 2014, she joined international IT consulting firm Intellixx as a consultant. In 2016, she was hired as a senior research and development engineer at Datavora, a data management company for online commerce companies.
Thanks to Historiar, Houda Bakir took part in several international events, including the Digital Tunisia Days organized on the sidelines of the Expo 2020 in Dubai. In 2021, the company won the Best EdTech Solutions Provider award issued by the digital publication MEA Markets.
As for Ms. Bakir, in 2022, she was named one of the seven North African female tech founders to know by online media Exclusive Africa. Ventures Africa also named her one of the twelve North African female tech founders to know. Still, in 2022, she won the first prize in the Startup Bootcamp organized by Réseau Entreprendre Tunisia and Qatar Fund for Development.
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She is a business leader with experience in the financial and crypto industries. As the head of Binance in Francophone Africa, she will lead efforts to democratize access to crypto assets and blockchain in the region.
Carine Dikambi (photo) is the regional director for Binance in Francophone Africa. Appointed in June 2021, the executive is "responsible for defining, launching and leading expansion plans, operations and partnerships across Francophone Africa."
"Binance is a digital marketplace (an exchange) where people can buy, sell and exchange cryptos. In addition to being a crypto exchange (the largest in the world by volume), Binance is a blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider with a suite of financial products, and we continue to build key facets of the blockchain ecosystem and contribute to the development of broader industry infrastructure," explained Carine Dikambi in 2022.
Born and raised in France, Carine Dikambi holds a bachelor's degree in banking and finance from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Paris Descartes University. She also holds a Master's degree in Management Science from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. A graduate of New York University, where she earned a postgraduate certificate in financial risk management, she started investing in cryptocurrencies in 2016. About four years later, in 2020, she moved to Cameroon to promote digital finance in Africa.
Her professional career began in 2010 when she joined Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking as an associate. A few months later, she also became a financial analyst.
In 2011, she became Vice President of the Institutional Clients Group at Citi Bank. Then, in 2013, she was named director of risk and information management at fintech company American Express, before being promoted to director in 2016. She held this position until 2021 when she joined Binance.
Since 2018, she has been an IoT and blockchain mentor for Startup Weekend Paris, a 54-hour event that allows different groups to pitch their startup ideas. In 2010, she received the SGCIB Leadership Development Program Class Award. Then, in 2015, she received the Rookie of the Year award at American Express.
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She is an entrepreneur and digital transformation consultant who has initiated several projects to support the Tunisian tech ecosystem. Betacube, her latest venture, helps entrepreneurs build their startups.
Amel Saidane (photo) is a Tunisian entrepreneur and venture builder. She holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany (2003) and a Master's degree in Digital Economy from the University of Maryland, USA (2007).
She entered the professional world in 2004 when she joined the IT company Nokia as an Account Manager. In 2008, she joined Microsoft as an Enterprise Account Manager before becoming Managing Director of the consulting agency SlickStone. Between 2016 and 2018, she was the Seedstars Ambassador in Tunisia.
In 2017, she co-founded Tunisian Startups, a network of entrepreneurs that aims to create a friendly environment for successful and budding entrepreneurs alike. She is currently the president of the association. Two years later, she also co-founded Digital2Value (D2V), a platform that aims to accelerate digital transformation by connecting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to a comprehensive ecosystem of consultants, development organizations, and digital solutions.
D2V has three flagship products. The first is the D2V Digital SME Accelerator, a six-month program that enables SMEs to accelerate their growth by leveraging digital transformation. The second is D2V Market Place, a platform that connects startups. The third product is D2V Studios, a place for entrepreneurial skills development and startup development.
Her most notable startup is Betacube, of which she is a co-founder and CEO. Founded in 2019, Betacube is a venture builder supported by the European Union and Expertise France. It invests, builds, and develops B2B startups in the financial and mobility sectors. Its vision is to create a technology innovation ecosystem where Tunisian and international talent can connect with the world, build successful businesses and drive digital transformation in specific industries. According to Ms. Amel, Betacube supports entrepreneurs from ideation to validation, then to initial funding, and takes stakes in the startups created. In 2022, she revealed that the venture builder has 12 startups in its portfolio.
Amel Saidane is also a member of the advisory board of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, a member of the startup selection committee of the Tunisian Ministry of ICT, and a member of the Responsible Leaders Network of the BMW Foundation. She also sits on the board of the Digital Arabia Network. In 2022, she was named on Ventures Africa's list of the twelve North African female tech founders to know.
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