What links a feminist group show in San Francisco and a patient management system for German dentists? That would be Worms, who funded both initiatives. The latter is one of many international startups backed by Worms via his Silicon Valley investment platform, Partech; his contemporary art foundation, Kadist, is just as globally focused. A Woman You Thought You Knew, which brought together works from the Kadist collection, was staged at the nonprofit’s gallery in San Francisco, while its Paris gallery boasted a programme that featured an evening of performances inspired by medieval French poetry, Manthia Diawara and Hoor Al Qasimi in conversation, and a group show of Ukrainian artists in collaboration with the Palais de Tokyo. Partech Africa is the largest fund dedicated to African startups, and Kadist has been increasingly present on the continent. It supported the annual exhibition Dig Where You Stand, which this year took place in two cities in Benin (Cotonou and Ouidah), and in November staged a festival at Fondation H in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.