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We build what cannot
be imported.

The next decade of African economic growth will be won by the operators with the best real-time signal. We are building it.

Why Merkhet exists

A platform for decisions,
not another report.

DOC · 01 MISSION

¶ 01 African real economies (small businesses, construction sites, informal distribution chains, the demand patterns of two billion people) generate 80% of the activity that drives growth, and remain almost entirely invisible to traditional analytics.

¶ 02 The gap between decision and data is where value gets destroyed. Cement manufacturers operate blind to where their own product lands. Banks extend credit on records that ignore the actual cash flow of their borrowers. Consumer brands measure their own share with three-month lags.

¶ 03 We started Merkhet to close that gap. Not with another consulting firm or panel survey, but with a technology platform that produces decision intelligence in days, not quarters. Built for the markets where we live, work, and have built our careers.

Founders

The team behind
the platform.

Quantitative finance and AI engineers with backgrounds in Paris and London capital markets, building for the African real economies they come from.

Yvan-Manuel Baleguel
F · 01
CEO & FOUNDER

Yvan-Manuel Baleguel

Yvan-Manuel is the CEO & Founder of Merkhet, building the decision intelligence layer for African real economies.

He started Merkhet to bring institutional-grade quantitative infrastructure to markets that have historically operated without it.

He previously held quantitative finance roles at BNP Paribas CIB in Paris and Banqora in London, covering derivatives modeling, portfolio optimization, and AI allocation frameworks.

Yvan-Manuel holds an MSc Technology & Management from CentraleSupélec and a Master in Financial Markets from ESSCA. He is certified by the Stanford Machine Learning Specialization and the Bloomberg Market Concept.

Yvan Ngnie
F · 02
CTO & CO-FOUNDER

Yvan Ngnie

Yvan is the CTO & Co-founder of Merkhet, leading the AI infrastructure and platform engineering.

He has over five years of experience in quantitative finance and applied machine learning.

Before Merkhet, he was an Exotic Equity Derivatives Structurer at RBC Capital Markets in Paris. He also previously worked at Société Générale CIB on ESG credit risk machine learning, and at Reask in London on quantitative climate risk modeling.

Yvan holds a computer science degree from CentraleSupélec and an M2 in Quantitative Finance from Université Paris Cité.

Selected by

Backed by deep-tech
talent infrastructure.

21st SELECTED BY CentraleSupélec

Incubated at the flagship deep-tech accelerator of one of France's leading engineering schools.

  • Cohort2026
  • Programme21st by CentraleSupélec
  • FocusDeep-tech
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