Sonia Bouhajja
Investment Manager
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- Full Name
- Sonia Bouhajja
- Title
- Investment Manager (Chargée d'Investissement)
- Firm
- BIAT Capital Risque (SICAR), the venture-capital / private-equity arm of the BIAT banking group
- Firm Type
- Bank-affiliated venture capital & private equity investment company (SICAR) — *note: this differs from the "Angel Investors" label in the source stub; verified sources place her at an institutional corporate VC/PE fund, not an angel syndicate*
- Investment Stage
- Seed, Series A, and Series B (plus later-stage development, transmission, and turnaround capital at the firm level)
- Check Size
- Roughly $1–5M per deal at the firm level (per Private Equity List; not individually confirmed)
- Target Company Profile
- Tunisian SMEs and growth companies, including those in Regional Development Zones
- Sector Focus
- Diversified — the portfolio she personally manages spans health, wood, chemicals, industry, and ICT; the firm invests broadly across tourism, agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, industry, photovoltaics/green energy, and foodtech
- Geographic Focus
- Tunisia (broader Africa positioning)
- Location
- Tunis, Tunisia
Background
Sonia Bouhajja is a Tunisian investment professional and trained *expert-comptable* (chartered accountant). She began her career in 2005 in audit, working particularly in the financial sector, before moving into capital markets as head of the Research and Analysis department at Axis Capital Bourse, a Tunisian brokerage.
In 2011 she joined BIAT Capital Risque as a Chargée d'Investissement (investment manager), where she manages a diversified investment portfolio across sectors including health, wood, chemicals, industry, and ICT. Alongside her accounting qualification she has pursued the CIIA (Certified International Investment Analyst) designation, reflecting a background that combines audit rigor, equity research, and hands-on portfolio management.
BIAT Capital Risque is a SICAR (société d'investissement à capital risque) and a subsidiary of the BIAT group — Tunisia's largest private bank. Founded in 2000, the firm describes itself as "an actor and economic partner of Tunisian entrepreneurs." Since inception it has deployed on the order of 600 million dinars into more than 90 Tunisian companies, with over half of those investments placed in Regional Development Zones. As of end-2024 the firm and its managed funds had invested roughly 708 MDT (about 71% of available capital), with a 2024 investment volume near 170 MDT. The firm is led by CEO Hanene Lachiheb Askri.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests in Tunisian SMEs and growth companies via equity and quasi-equity (capital plus current-account advances), typically with a 5–7 year horizon and exits via strategic sale, IPO, or M&A.
- Covers the full lifecycle: venture/seed capital, development capital, transmission (buyout) capital, and turnaround/restructuring capital.
- Sector-agnostic but with concentrations in agribusiness, tourism, healthcare/pharmaceuticals, industry, wood, chemicals, ICT, photovoltaics/green energy, and increasingly foodtech.
- Strong development-finance mandate: a stated priority is financing companies in Regional Development Zones and supporting the "green transition."
- Sonia's individual mandate is a diversified book across health, wood, chemicals, industry, and ICT — signaling comfort with traditional industrials as much as tech.
Notable Investments
- Specific named portfolio companies attributed to Sonia Bouhajja are not publicly disclosed. At the firm level, BIAT Capital Risque reports backing 90+ Tunisian companies across tourism, agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, wood, agriculture, industry, and photovoltaics, with cumulative deployment around 600 MDT and a managed-fund base near 905 MDT (2025).
- Her personally managed portfolio is described as diversified across the health, wood, chemicals, industry, and ICT sectors.
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