Abibatou Ahne

CARECIM

Business Development executive

Description

Abibatou Ahne is an investor and business development lead at CARECIM. Since joining the company in 2024, she has been leading fundraising for this Senegal-based startup aiming to revolutionize small scale gold mining. Abibatou recently completed her master's degree in management at emlyon business school, with a thesis focused on how to empower young entrepreneurs in African incubators when navigating western management models. She is deeply committed to promote business practices that are locally grounded and culturally relevant, an approach she brings to conversations about industrializing artisanal mining and strengthening cooperative models across Africa. Her work sits at the crossroads of tradition and innovation, with a clear ambition: to help local industries grow sustainably on their own terms.