Wuri Ventures
VC Fund
Dakar, Senegal
Wuri Ventures is a VC fund in Dakar focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Wuri Ventures focuses on innovating the spectrum between market-based solutions and pure public goods. It realizes that much successful innovation in Africa has occurred in this space, where innovation around market failures such as information asymmetry (data), fragmentation (platforms) and public goods (electricity, mobility) can solve previouslyintractable problems. Its unique mathematical properties, from cellular automata and emergence to numerical methods, studied by researchers, links ancient African culture to modern technology. It supports world-class entrepreneurs in solving Africa’s biggest challenges using innovation.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Wuri Ventures invests in
Stages Wuri Ventures invests in
Countries Wuri Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $634k–$13M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$1M
- Series A
- $15M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 6 (32%)
- FinTech 5 (26%)
- Software 3 (16%)
- Information Technology 3 (16%)
- B2B 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (42%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (21%)
- Series A 3 (16%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (16%)
Country
- United States 5 (26%)
- Kenya 3 (16%)
- Ghana 2 (11%)
- Senegal 2 (11%)
- Spain 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tijan Watt
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jerome Cretegny
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cauri Money specializes in financial technology with a wide range of digital banking solutions via app for fund transfer. | Seed / Aug 14, 2024 | ||
| Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team. | Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 07, 2024 | ||
| The missing piece in B2B credit | Seed / Feb 06, 2024 | ||
| Kera is an AI-powered platform augmenting healthcare providers and communities for healthier lives in Senegal and beyound. | Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| MoPhones is the marketplace of premium foreign renewed mobile devices. | Seed / Dec 08, 2023 | ||
| Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products. | $1.9M / Seed / Sep 07, 2023 | ||
| Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button. | $13M / Seed / Jan 10, 2023 | ||
| Garage is Africa’s premier automotive technology company, connecting regional and global manufacturers and distributors with fleets, retailers and mechanic shops and providing best in class software for inventory management, shop management and eCommerce. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Jul 19, 2022 | ||
| Rima helps accountants automate document and spreadsheet work with accuracy and cell-level audit tracking.For accountants that deal with messy docs and spend their time in Excel, Rima enables them to build workflows in natural language to extract and process financial data from PDFs or ERPs into their Excel templates and reconcile theirspreadsheets in minutes. Accountants build these workflows once and our agents do the work for them going forward, preserving their institutional memory and know-how. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Jul 19, 2022 | ||
| Buoy Pay is an on-demand float for remittance and payment companies. It helps remittance and payment companies stay on top of their liquidity needs. | $634.5K / Seed / May 25, 2022 | ||
| See all 19 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Wuri Ventures invest in?
Wuri Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Wuri Ventures invest in?
Wuri Ventures typically joins rounds of $634k–$13M at Seed, $500k–$1M at Pre-Seed and $15M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Wuri Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Wuri Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Wuri Ventures?
The team at Wuri Ventures includes Tijan Watt (General Partner) and Jerome Cretegny (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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