Omar Cissé: The Senegalese innovator modernizing mobile payments in Africa

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He is a remarkable entrepreneur who has contributed significantly to the development of technology in Africa. His vision and leadership have enabled InTouch SA to become one of the leading startups in the mobile payments industry on the continent.

Omar Cissé (pictured), the founder and CEO of InTouch SA, is a renowned Senegalese entrepreneur in the African financial technology world. A graduate of the École Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar, where he earned a degree in computer design engineering in 2000, he also holds a master's degree in business administration from the Institut Supérieur de Management in Senegal in 2007.

Founded in 2014, InTouch SA is a financial technology company that provides a mobile payment platform for financial transactions in Africa. The company provides innovative technology that manages all of its cyprus mobile database ' transactional needs securely, efficiently, and easily.

More specifically, it allows its customers to collect and settle payments in real time across the continent with an application that offers features such as payment acceptance, loyalty, digital credit, service distribution, invoicing and reminders, mission expense management, deferred payment, money transfer and intercontinental settlement.

InTouch SA has achieved considerable success and has become one of the leaders in the mobile payments industry in Africa with partners such as Total, Orange Money Senegal and IFAD (International Fund for Agriculture Development).

To date, the startup has acquired and continues to strengthen a network of 2,000 corporate clients and 50,000 TouchPoints in 14 countries. TouchPoints are distribution points. The company has also built and regularly updates a catalog of more than 400 digital services that it makes available to its customers. It plans to have subsidiaries in 25 African countries and a network of partners in each country on the continent by 2025.

Omar Cissé is also a director and co-promoter of Teranga Capital, which finances small and medium-sized businesses. In 2001, he co-founded 2SI, a software engineering services company specializing in software engineering and automation, which he led from 2005 to 2010. In 2010, he launched and led CTIC Dakar, Senegal's first incubator and accelerator for entrepreneurs in information and communication technologies and mobile technologies, until 2013.