Socium, founded in 2021 by Samba Lo and Serigne Seye, provides payroll, recruitment and workforce management software to businesses across 21 Francophone African countries.
Partech’s reach now spans West, North, East, and Southern Africa. The firm recently opened a new office in Lagos, joining existing locations in Dakar, Nairobi, and Dubai.
With nearly half the year still ahead, Africa’s startup ecosystem appears on track to exceed 2024’s funding total, especially if current momentum continues.
The programme will provide selected startups with hands-on support, including access to Plug and Play’s global offices and its network of multinational corporations .
For Glovo, which insists it is cooperating fully and remains committed to transparency, this latest development is a reputational headache layered on top of an already complex operating environment.
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.
