Oumar Basse

Founder at Yobante Express

Oumar Basse is a PhD student in Machine Learning with 9 years of experience in Digital.

He’s the co-founder, products architect and CEO of YOBANTE EXPRESS, a marketplace that connects local couriers with local commerce to solve the biggest problems in emerging markets: domestic, cross-border and last-mile delivery.

Yobante Express’s web and mobile platform use Machine Learning, Gig-economy with independent and casual couriers within a « resilient mesh network » of relay points to deliver packages at 40% cheaper, 2X as fast and more efficiently than existing solutions, from point to point until the very last-mile.

YOBANTE EXPRESS Inc. is an Africa-based company with the head office set up in Delaware, in the United States of America with subsidiaries in Sénégal, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria.