About the firm
An independent advisory firm for companies, investors and public institutions.
Kouroundé Strategies advises on financing, strategy and digital transformation. The firm is registered in Berlin and works in German, English, French and Bambara. The firm's consulting work began in Kigali in 2019 and has been carried out through Kouroundé Strategies since 2025.
Mandate
What we do
The work covers four areas: corporate finance and financing (financing strategy, business plans, financial models, bank and investor readiness); due diligence and transaction support (financial, commercial and operational review, an independent second opinion before a decision); Europe–Africa cross-border advisory (market entry, partner and counterparty assessment, reporting bridges between local standards and German and European requirements); and strategy and transformation, including data and AI where they solve a defined business problem.
A mandate usually starts with an analysis of the numbers and the situation, and ends with a written result and a conversation about next steps. No investment, tax or audit advice.
How we work
One advisor, from start to finish.
On advisory mandates the work is carried out throughout by the managing director. On implementation projects responsibility for the mandate stays with the managing director; execution may be carried out by named partners. There is no handover to an anonymous project team.
Fee-only.
Kouroundé Strategies takes no commissions and distributes no financial or insurance products. The client is the only party that pays.
What we do not do.
Kouroundé Strategies is not authorised for investment brokerage or investment advice under §§ 34f and 34h GewO and provides neither. Where a mandate reaches that boundary, we say so and refer on.
Founder & Managing Director
Ousmane Moumouni Guindo
Founder and managing director of Kouroundé Strategies.
From roots to strategy
Every meaningful journey begins somewhere. Mine begins in Kouroundé, a village in central Mali, in the region known as the Pays Dogon, where my father grew up. Kouroundé is known for two things: fertile land and a strategic position. Over time, those stopped being geography for me and became a way of thinking.
Fertility creates potential. Position creates opportunity. Strategy turns both into growth.
Working across finance, entrepreneurship and consulting taught me that opportunities rarely speak for themselves. They need structure, and they need someone willing to act on them.
I founded Kouroundé Strategies to do that work: to help companies and institutions turn what they already have into something measurable. Not numbers for their own sake, but something that outlasts the person who started it.
The name carries my roots. The strategy carries my vision.
— Ousmane Moumouni Guindo
Structure and history
- 2019Independent consulting activity started in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 2022Company incorporated in Rwanda.
- 2025Kourounde Strategies UG (haftungsbeschränkt) incorporated in Berlin, entered in the commercial register at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg on 21 March 2025 under HRB 273449 B.
The Rwandan and the German company are separate legal entities held by the same founder. Kourounde Strategies UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is the contracting entity for mandates in Germany and the European Union.