Sahel Ventures
Sahel Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire investing in Fintech, Other, SaaS. The firm typically writes $25K–$100K checks and has 27 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $25K–$100K
- Portfolio
- 27 companies on record
- Partners
- 5 listed
- AUM
- $90M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Fintech, Other, SaaS, Enterprise
- HQ
- Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Pre-Seed
$25K – $100K
$90M
27+ companies
5 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in West African startups innovating in fintech risk assessment, fraud detection, and SaaS platforms for enterprise clients.
How Sahel Ventures invests
Sahel Ventures is a vc firm based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Fintech, Other, SaaS, Enterprise. It does not invest in Media.
Sahel Ventures typically writes checks of $25K–$100K per investment, backed by approximately $90M in assets under management.
Investing since at least 2015, Sahel Ventures has backed 27 companies in our records, including Mariseth Farms, Tafalo, MM Lekker. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2025, with 4 investments logged over the last 12 months.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
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Portfolio Companies (27)
2025
Mariseth Farms
The company focuses on the production and aggregation of four key crops: soybean, maize, rice, and oil palm.
Tafalo
The company is based in Côte d’Ivoire, and focuses on aggregating soybean, sesame, and sunflower beans.
MM Lekker
The company specializes in the trade of cold-pressed coconut oil, soybean, shea nuts, and cashew nuts.
Nulla Group
NULLA GROUP is a Cameroon-based maize aggregator and processor.
2024
Sukuma
Sukuma Commodities Ltd fully licensed Uganda Coffee Exporting company, with operations in all major coffee growing areas of the country.
Geneplus Global Ltd
Geneplus Global Ltd provides quality livestock genetic products to dairy farmers in Kenya.
Afriavo Orchards
Afriavo Orchards is a Kenyan company dedicated to the export of high-quality avocados, apples, mangoes, and other fruits from Kenya to the international markets.
Persea Oil & Orchards Kenya
Persea is a Kenyan-based avocado oil processor that provides an off-take market for avocado farmers and produces the finest quality cold-pressed organic extra virgin avocado oil and crude oil.
Oyster Agribusiness Company Ltd
Oyster Agribusiness produces and aggregates grains for sale to both the domestic and international markets.
Agriarche Limited
Agriarche Ltd provide access to inputs, storage, logistics, payments and market information for farmers, aggregators, food processors and other ecosystem players.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Fintech, Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $25K – $100K check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Tosin Ojo, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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