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Pinpoint high-potential opportunities aligned with the markets we know best.
We identify opportunities, build the business cases that move them forward, connect the partners who make them real, and structure the capital that brings them to life — from energy to fintech to digital infrastructure.
Our value lies in covering the full chain — from spotting an opportunity to seeing it operate. We don't stop at advice, and we don't show up only with capital. We build the project.
Pinpoint high-potential opportunities aligned with the markets we know best.
Develop rigorous business cases that withstand institutional scrutiny.
Bring together local champions and international partners around the project.
Design the deal, the governance, and the financing architecture.
Execute and bring the project to operating reality.
We concentrate on industries where our operating background gives us a genuine edge, and where Africa's structural needs intersect with global capital flows.
Solar power plants · Green fuel · Oil & gas
We support both the energy transition and the conventional assets that keep economies running — from utility-scale solar to upstream oil and gas projects.
Instant digital payments · Payment cards · Local & international transfers
We build the financial infrastructure that brings African economies into the global digital flow, with regulated operations across the UEMOA zone and partnerships beyond.
Our operational fintech venture Firstcom Global PaymentsAI compute · Datacenters · Cybersecurity
We back the sovereign digital infrastructure that will power Africa's next chapter — the compute, the facilities, and the cyber resilience the continent needs to own its digital future.
We engage as advisors, as co-investors, or both. The right mode depends on the project, the partners, and the moment.
Three decades of running businesses across roughly ten African markets means we know how projects actually get done — and how they fail. We bring that depth to every advisory mandate.
We co-invest in the projects we believe in, alongside leading partners. We bring capital, but also operational depth and African market access — the kind that turns a thesis into a functioning business.
Firstcom Global Capital partners with Aurion Capital, a US-based investment firm, to channel institutional capital into African and Gulf opportunities backed by deep local expertise.
Souleymane Diallo serves as Senior Advisor for Africa at Aurion Capital, bringing operational depth and local market access to the firm's investment activities across the continent.
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Founder & Chairman
Souleymane is a Senegalese entrepreneur and investor with over thirty years of senior leadership experience across roughly ten African markets. As Founder of both Firstcom Global Capital and Firstcom Global Payments, he draws on three decades of operating expertise in telecoms, digital financial services and infrastructure to drive transformative ventures across Africa, the Gulf and beyond.
His career includes the turnaround of Orange Niger (now Zamani Telecom Niger), CEO mandates at Telecel Mali, Moov Centrafrique and Moov Gabon, the founding of Millenium Telecom — the first independent broadband operator in the Central African Republic — and senior commercial leadership at Millicom and Western Union.
Souleymane holds degrees in Business Administration (Canada), Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship (HEC Paris) and Finance (ESCP Paris).
Current Roles
Commander in the National Order of the Central African Republic (2008) · "New Generation Leader for Africa", African Leadership Network (2012).
Whether you are a project sponsor, a potential partner, or an institutional investor exploring opportunities in Africa or the Gulf — our team is ready to engage.
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