Fatoumata Ba

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Fatoumata Ba (* 1986 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese entrepreneur who belongs to the Fulbe people . She was the managing director of Jumia offshoots in Ivory Coast and Nigeria and is the founder of the venture capital firm Janngo .

Life

Bas parents come from humble backgrounds. The father trained part-time as a Master of Business Administration and then worked at international institutions. The family could afford to travel, and Ba and her three brothers attended good schools. At nine, Ba guessed her father's computer password, who then asked her to prepare Powerpoint presentations for him. At 16 she built her first website. Ba studied in Toulouse and then worked for a technology consulting company. She helped European companies on the topic of digitization.

When she began to feel empty and to look for some kind of mission, Ba resigned and in 2013 founded a subsidiary of the shopping platform Jumia in the Ivory Coast and then another Jumia offshoot in Lagos, Nigeria . Jumia Nigeria became Africa's largest e-commerce website in terms of market share, employees and revenue. Ba devised a mobile payment service for the “ Amazon of Africa”, which is geared towards the needs of African customers.

Since Ba liked to be an investor herself and wanted to give the rapidly growing African population access to financing options for companies, she quit Jumia and put all her money into the venture capital company Janngo. The word “Janngo” means “tomorrow” in Fulani , the company's offer is primarily aimed at young people and women as well as small and medium-sized companies. Ba introduced the company to the French President Emanuel Macron as well as the Prime and Digital Ministers of the Ivory Coast and in 2018 collected investments a. a. from the Mulliez family .

At the DLD Conference 2019, Ba described Africa as a “continent of possibilities”.

Awards

  • Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum (2019)
  • Choiseul 100 Africa Economic Leaders of Tomorrow (2015)
  • 30 under 30 awarded by Forbes Africa (2016)
  • Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership (2019)

Web links

Article about Fatoumata Ba in Deutsche Welle (2019)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elsa Walter: Fatoumata Ba, l'entrepreneure prodige qui connecte l'Afrique. In: Telquel.ma. October 5, 2018, accessed November 27, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ Tech Pioneer in Africa: Fatoumata Bâ | DW | October 18, 2019. In: Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com). Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Kerry A. Dolan: Africa's Most Promising Entrepreneurs: Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30 For 2016. In: Forbes.com. Forbes Media LLC, June 6, 2016, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Kathrin Werner: "Money means: access to opportunities". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH, October 24, 2019, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Boubacar Diallo: Start-up of the week: with Janngo, Fatoumata Bâ wants to open up Africa. In: AfrikaTech. December 22, 2018, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ludwig Obermeier: Fatoumata Bâ: She founded the Amazon of Africa - and now has new plans. In: Focus Online. January 21, 2019, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Here Are the 10 Young Africans Pushing Boundaries and Changing the World in 2019. In: World Economic Forum. March 13, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Choiseul 100 Africa Economic Leaders Of Tomorrow. Institut Choiseul, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Saki Athanassios Danoglidis: News: Power woman made in Africa. In: burda.com. Hubert Burda Media, January 20, 2019, accessed on November 20, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Fatoumata Ba. In: World Economic Forum. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ba, Fatoumata
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bâ, Fatoumata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Dakar