We’re passionate about helping entrepreneurs in West Africa grow and make an impact.

Our focus is on building scalable, sustainable, and profitable businesses in Francophone Africa from ideation to Series A financing.

Francophone Africa is ripe with high-potential business opportunities. However, the lack of access to sufficient capital and support creates a difficult environment for entrepreneurs to thrive. Our focus is on building scalable, sustainable, and profitable businesses in Francophone Africa from ideation to Series A financing.

We are focused on transforming the start-up landscape in Francophone Africa. Our goal is to support entrepreneurs by bridging the gap between ideas and growth stage ventures.

With several decades of experience in entrepreneurship and the private sector, combined with an understanding of the economic growth needs of the region in which we live, we identify and scale startups in Francophone Africa. We equip ventures in this high-potential region with all the ingredients for success.

We take pride in the diversity of our staff and their alignment with our ambitious goals and values.

Each team member has a unique story, and our common goal is to contribute to the development of our continent. Our team culture is reflected daily through our practices and routines (check-ins, team meetings, collaborative spaces, etc.) We are an ambitious team, conquering the world.

Average age of our staff
25-35 yo

Gender breakdown
63% F - 37% M

Number of ventures
10 ventures within our studio

Work with Haskè Ventures

We invite you to explore Senegal as a startup hub and join Haskè Ventures in its quest to build the African private sector we want. We have specific roles that support our ventures at different stages of their development. View our open positions and apply.

Our venture-building process.

  • Dream it.

    “All dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney

    All great businesses begin with an idea. With the right push, ideas get to impact millions of lives. Launching a business? Turning a hobby into something more? Sharing a creative project with the world? Haskè Ventures provides the expertise and support needed and brings your ideas to life.

  • Seize it.

    “We have all faced a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” —Charles R. Swindoll

    From Day 1, we spend time and effort defining the specific opportunity and proving it is worthy of investment. At Haskè Ventures, we work with entrepreneurs to demystify issues and refine the understanding of target markets. We evaluate the overall desirability, viability, and feasibility of the solution. Our goal is to bridge the gap between ideas and growth-stage ventures.

  • Build it.

    “If you build something valuable where there was nothing before, the increase in value is theoretically infinite” —Peter Thiel

    Our aim is to build large-scale, profitable companies that employ a large number of people. With several decades of experience in entrepreneurship and the private/public sectors, we walk the journey with entrepreneurs, providing funding, counsel, and practical tools to develop the idea into a commercially viable solution.

  • Share it.

    “It’s not your customer’s job to remember you. It is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you.” —Patricia Fripp

    With an understanding of the Francophone African market, its immense opportunities, and its nuances, we know how to build successful businesses to find and keep customers in this high-potential region. Our model focuses on proving real commercial traction and finding organizational stability. We do that by establishing ventures that are legally compliant and long-term advantageous, and by investing in strong processes and talents.

  • Grow it.

    “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” —Conrad Hilton

    At Haskè Ventures, we aim to build scalable, sustainable, and profitable businesses. Beyond creating and developing companies, we focus on finding and optimizing product market fit, helping them refine their products, business models and processes to prepare for scale. We help the ventures understand industry typical pathways towards scaled growth, transform early adopters into true adoption, and close capacity gaps with an end goal of successfully securing series A investment.

  • A data-driven methodology to help founders quickly find a product-market fit

  • Minimum financial security and support for resource mobilization

  • A business development feature to help founders achieve Series A performance metrics

  • Access to world-class expertise in project management, financial management, digital, and coaching from day one

  • Access to world-class legal and tax expertise from day one

  • Access to world-class accounting services from day one

We can help.

Bring your ideas to life

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you need help taking your venture to the next stage.

Scale your vision

Receive a wide range of support for your enterprise—from design thinking to legal, accounting, and operations.

Prepare for funding

Enter the funding market equipped with everything your enterprise needs to successfully close Series A funding