Marieme DIOP

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Regional Head for francophone Africa

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Marième Diop currently runs Orange Ventures Africa Early stage fund backed by the leading telecoms company Orange - a 50m€ fund dedicated to African startups. Through this role, she’s actively involved in launching and scaling investment vehicles and direct investments targeted at technology startups across Africa. Marieme is also the founder and a Board member of the first regional Angel Network in francophone Africa – Dakar Network Angels – that invests and assists high-growth companies in the region to get the fundamentals in place to become scalable and fundable. Marieme is passionate about supporting founder teams of early stage technology companies in building Africa’s next business champions. She works out of a strong belief that technology is both an enabler and an accelerator of Africa’s development. Hence, her focus over eight years has been technology and innovation and she has occupied different roles of responsibility with a team leadership role and an international exposure (BearingPoint, Orange, Senegal’s Presidency …). Marieme is also a Fellow of the President’s Obama flagship program ‘Young African Leaders Initiative‘, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, ABAN board member, and a jury member of the Africa NetPreneur Prize of Alibaba. Marieme graduated from one of France’s top engineering schools, Telecom ParisTech, with an intensive master’s degree in data analysis and computing.

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Sénégal

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