Socium, founded in 2021 by Samba Lo and Serigne Seye, provides payroll, recruitment and workforce management software to businesses across 21 Francophone African countries.
The fund will also support ecosystem development, from policy engagement and evidence generation to cross-sector convening, in order to accelerate market adoption.
Founded in 2020 by Kaoru Kaganoi and co-founder Zachary Petroni (former Safeboda Kenya operators), Peach emerged from years of lived experience in sub-Saharan Africa.
The move, which sees Yellow Card and Visa collaborating on stablecoin use cases in Africa and other emerging markets, is billed as a step forward for financial inclusion.
Despite the proliferation of fintech, e-commerce, and logistics platforms across Africa, a lack of formal addresses remains a blind spot in infrastructure.
Socium, founded in 2021 by Samba Lo and Serigne Seye, provides payroll, recruitment and workforce management software to businesses across 21 Francophone African countries.
Sixteen months later, on a hot July day in 2026, Egypt's finance minister, Ahmed Kouchouk, returned to a company whose public frustration had once laid bare the country's industrial bureaucracy.
