Capability built in the Global South, kept in the Global South.

Built in 2024 out of Inetum’s operations in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Egypt and the UAE. It runs ERP, cloud, data, AI and cybersecurity for governments, telecoms operators and large enterprises, with clients in sixteen countries and about a hundred people across five offices.

As European groups leave Africa, good businesses come up at sensible prices. Sazience buys them, runs them better, and trains its engineers in the region through its own academy, built with WorldQuant University and MIT.

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THE PEOPLE

Nana Baffour · founder and executive chairman

He has built twelve companies and made twenty acquisitions across Europe, Latin America and the United States.

MY ROLE

Portfolio management.