• Ivorian entrepreneur Yoann Eddy Assohoun founded Tanga Africa to digitize visitor and crowd management for organizations and events.

• Tanga Africa replaces manual visitor logs with automated digital tools that improve security, tracking, and data analysis.

• Assohoun combines entrepreneurship with senior technical roles across African and international tech firms.

Yoann Eddy Assohoun is an Ivorian software developer and entrepreneur. He founded and leads Tanga Africa, a technology company that specializes in digital visitor and crowd management for organizations and events.

Founded in 2024, Tanga Africa targets security firms and organizations that seek to modernize visitor reception across multiple environments, including offices, hospitals, schools, and professional or cultural events. The company offers a digital platform that replaces paper registers and manual processes with automated tools.

The solution enables digital visitor registration and delivers faster check-ins, improved security, and optimized on-site tracking. Through an intuitive interface, Tanga Africa improves reception experiences and simplifies crowd management. The platform automates access control, entry and exit traceability, and report generation, which allows organizations to analyze peak attendance periods.

The company also offers event-specific features. These tools include RSVP management, QR-code self check-in, and real-time monitoring systems that support smoother and more professional event organization.

Alongside his role at Tanga Africa, Assohoun serves as chief technology officer at Etudesk. The startup supports access to educational technology solutions for schools across West Africa.

Before launching Tanga Africa, Assohoun co-founded Expat Orientation in 2018 and led the company until 2022. The agency assisted students who pursued higher education in Bangalore, India. In 2023, he also co-founded the Ivorian fintech doo!, where he served as chief technology officer.

Assohoun graduated from Bangalore University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science in 2015. He later completed a master’s degree in the same field at Presidency College in 2019.

In 2019, he joined Nexshore Technologies in India as a junior full-stack developer and designer. In 2020, he joined U.S.-based Akil Technologies as a frontend developer. He later joined Ghanaian fintech Noworri as a full-stack web engineer and earned promotion to chief technology officer in 2022.

From 2022 to 2025, Assohoun served as national director of PAL in Ghana, a payment processing system that targets Francophone West African businesses and emerging economies. During 2024 and 2025, he also worked as a software engineer and technical lead at INCUBTEK, an Ivorian firm that specializes in consulting, business incubation, and technological innovation.

This article was initially published in French by Melchior Koba

Adapted in English by Ange J.A de BERRY QUENUM