Ghana

What to expect when Seedstars World heads to Accra

The next leg of Seedstars World will take place in the capital of Ghana, Accra, on Sunday 21 August 2016. The event, which will be…

Ghana’s church management service reaps international honours

A Ghanaian online church management, called Asoriba, has been recognised by Seedstars and Microsoft Bizspark recently in Casablanca, Morocco. Asoriba is a cloud-based church…

How this Accra-based incubator is nurturing entrepreneurs to build pan-African products

A few months ago, I wrote a piece on the contrasting views of some African tech stakeholders, including Lagos-based CcHub’s Bosun Tijani, on the…

African economic slump reveals hot spots ripe for investment

When the International Monetary Fund slashed sub-Saharan Africa’s growth projections this spring, it seemed that the continent’s brief day in the sun had come…

Study: impact investment deployed in West Africa amounts to $852m in 2014

The impact investing industry in West Africa may be small, though it is growing, and amounted to US$852-million in 2014. This is according to…

Ghana’s online real estate portal meQasa strikes $500k deal

Ghanian online real estate platform meQasa has just secured a US$500 000 investment from global investment firm Frontier Digital Ventures, highlighting the increase in venture…

Africa Technology Summit bringing together the ‘who’s who’ in African tech

The Africa Technology Summit (ATS), backed by Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) will be holding a tech summit in Accra, Ghana 3 and…

A look at some of Africa’s hottest startup incubators

Although investment in Africa has traditionally focused on commodities rather than technologies, the explosion of mobile usage has opened up opportunities for small-business development….

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