Toumaï brings capital, operational leadership, and fundraising support to early-stage founders across North America, Europe, and Africa.
Consultants hand you a deck and leave. Passive investors wire the money and wait.
Toumaï does neither.
We take a position, then we work alongside you, inside the business, until the next milestone is reached. Fourteen years of doing this across three continents has taught us one thing: proximity is everything.
We've built and run businesses before writing a single check. Execution is in our DNA, not an add-on.
Every engagement is anchored to a specific outcome: a fundraise, a market entry, a structural milestone.
We're compensated in equity or milestone-linked structures. When you win, we win. Full stop.
Across three continents and five sectors, we've developed the reflexes to spot what matters fast and act before the window closes.
30 minutes. No pitch deck required. We want to understand where you are, what you need, and whether Toumaï is genuinely the right partner for this stage. Honest fit assessment, on both sides.
We define a clear mandate together: investment terms, fractional scope, or both. Timeline, deliverables, and success criteria agreed upfront. No ambiguity, no open-ended retainers.
We work. Finance structures, operational playbooks, investor materials, team building. We move fast, take full ownership of what we touch, and stay until the milestone is reached.
We invest at the earliest stage, pre-seed to seed, and stay in the room as an active operator until your next financing milestone is reached. Not just capital: a partner who knows what to do with it.
For seed+ founders who need senior operational leadership to become investor-ready. We move fast in unstructured environments, take full ownership of the subjects we engage on, and build the structure, the financial model, and the investor narrative, so that you can close the round.
14+ years across investment, financial advisory, and operational mandates in North America, Europe, and Africa. Finance background forged at EY and KPMG. Advised and invested in companies including Vestiaire Collective, Tolbi, Melanin Kapital, Bull, Jool, and NILOTIC Sports. Brings institutional rigour to early-stage realities.
Senior product and operations leader with a track record at high-growth companies including GWI (AI & data infrastructure) and Gousto (food & logistics). Experienced across management software, fintech, and defence. Brings the execution depth of a seasoned scale-up operator directly into Toumaï's portfolio companies.
These are the real questions we hear on every first call. We'd rather you have the answers before we speak.
No long intake forms. No automated sequences.
Just send us a message with where your company is and what you're trying to solve. We'll get back to you within 48 hours with an honest answer on whether and how we can help.
Tell us where you are. We'll tell you exactly how we can help.