Digital Africa
digital-africa.co Direct investor
Digital Africa is a subsidiary of Proparco (AFD group) that invests directly in African tech startups at pre-seed and seed stages, focusing on underserved ecosystems. It also provides support services and runs programs like Fuzé and DA Seed Fund.
Digital Africa is a public fund headquartered in Tunis, Tunisia, founded in 2018. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in tech. Its stated cheque size is tickets d’investissement jusqu’à 100K€, en pré-amorçage. 76 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Nous investissons directement dans les startups innovantes, en concentrant nos efforts sur les écosystèmes peu desservis par les investisseurs traditionnels.”
— Digital Africa, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Public fund
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- tech
- Cheque size
- tickets d’investissement jusqu’à 100K€, en pré-amorçage
- Founded
- 2018
- Portfolio
- 76 companies
Team, as Digital Africa publishes it
- Grégoire de PADIRAC CEO
- Ali MNIF Chief Investment Officer
- Penelope TERRANOVA Chief Program Officer
- Stéphane ALLOU Chief Financial Officer
- Aurore BEUQUE Head of Marketing and Communication
- Sami AJIMI Acceleration Manager
- Malek Lagha Acceleration Manager
- Adam LY Investment Associate
- Fatimata WANE Investment Associate
- Ayoub FATHI Investment Program Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on digital-africa.co. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Digital Africa publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://digital-africa.co/name, is_investor, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, status, confidence
- https://digital-africa.co/about-uslayer, type, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, people
- https://digital-africa.co/portfolioportfolio_count
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Record 7947 · added 2026-09-20 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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