Founder & CEO, Afrikoni. Youba Simao Thiam founded Afrikoni in 2025 to make African B2B trade smarter, faster, and more trustworthy. Senegalese-born, Brussels-based, Youba spent over a decade building cross-border digital products before turning to African trade infrastructure.
Youba Simao Thiam founded Afrikoni in 2025 to make African B2B trade smarter, faster, and more trustworthy. Senegalese-born, Brussels-based, Youba spent over a decade building cross-border digital products before turning to African trade infrastructure.
African B2B trade · AfCFTA · Cross-border payments · Trade verification · Marketplace economics