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This Week in StartupGhana #42: Mariseth Farms gets $1 million | OceansMall secures $150,000 | Ghana’s early-stage investor, GoodSoil VC, winds down
Hello guys, Welcome to our weekly recap of the big news + funding in Ghana’s startup ecosystem. Here’s a look at the bold moves shaping the ecosystem this week. Funding Mariseth Farms raises $1 million to scale operations to support smallholder farmers. Mariseth Farms has secured a $1 million working capital loan from a consortium
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OceansMall secures $150,000 from GBHub Africa to digitize Ghana’s seafood supply chain.
OceansMall, the agritech startup revolutionizing seafood logistics, has secured $150,000 in convertible debt from GBHub Africa to expand its operations and digital platform, Pinwheel. The investment also includes technical assistance and market access support, enabling the company to scale its cold chain logistics and strengthen its reach across coastal fishing communities. Founded in 2021 by
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This Week in StartupGhana #41: NewGas raises $18M | thedsgnjunkies kick off Design Your Greatness tour | $1bn Ghana-UAE innovation and technology hub
Hello guys, welcome to our weekly recap of the big news + funding in Ghana’s startup ecosystem. Here’s a look at the bold moves shaping the ecosystem this week. Accelerator & Incubator Ghana & UAE sign $1bn deal to build Innovations and Technology Hub. Ghana and the United Arab Emirates have signed a $1 billion
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This Week in StartupGhana #40: KIC’s $200K bet | Wahu taps into the carbon credit market | Bloomberg’s Top 25 African Startups to Watch
Hello guys, welcome to our weekly recap of the big news + funding in Ghana’s startup ecosystem. Here’s a look at the bold moves shaping the ecosystem this week. Accelerator/Incubator Aide Chemists selected for Africa Union’s Home-Grown Solutions Accelerator. Aide Chemists, a tech-enabled pharmacy chain, has been selected for the Home-Grown Solutions Accelerator for Pandemic
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Kosmos Innovation Center invests $200,000 in 22 startups via its incubator.
The Kosmos Innovation Center, in partnership with Mastercard Foundation, has invested $200,000 in 22 startups as part of its 2025 AgriTech Pro program, which provides seed funding to ventures across the agricultural value chain. The investment follows the program’s final pitch event, which marked the culmination of the five-month accelerator. Over 60 startup teams participated
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This Week in StartupGhana #39: Lightrock appoints new partner | AgriCoHub channels nearly GHS 1 million to startups | Mariseth Farms secures $560k
Hello guys, Welcome to another edition of the This Week in StartupGhana newsletter. Building in Africa often means solving two problems simultaneously: the business model and the broken system. But it’s also where the most creative solutions are emerging—from those turning cooperative networks into funding engines, to others scaling platforms that connect markets, data, and
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Exclusive: How AgriCoHub invested nearly GHS 1 Million in startups leveraging an innovative cooperative credit union model.
Ask any African founder about their biggest challenges, and access to finance will inevitably make the top five. For entrepreneurs operating outside major tech hubs, the struggle is even more acute. In Ghana’s Bono-East region, Techiman-based AgriCoHub is tackling this problem head-on with an innovative solution: the Startups Cooperative Credit Union (STARTCCU). Founded by George
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Esoko named one of Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times.
Esoko has been named one of Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies in 2025 by the Financial Times and Statista, earning recognition for its role in transforming digital agriculture across the continent. Between 2020 and 2023, Esoko achieved an absolute revenue growth of 62.8% and a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.6%, with revenue growing from $2.92
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Mariseth Farms secures $560k from Sahel Capital to support over 8,000 smallholder farmers.
Mariseth Farms has secured a $560,000 working capital loan from Sahel Capital, through its Social Enterprise Fund for Agriculture in Africa (SEFAA), to scale its crop aggregation operations and expand fair market access for over 8,000 smallholder farmers, many of whom are women. Renaissance Law Chambers advised SEFAA on the transaction, while Pangea Global Ventures
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This Week in StartupGhana #38: Aruwa’s $50 million bet | Kofa charged with $8.1 million | Revna Biosciences teams up with AstraZeneca
Hello guys, Welcome to another edition of the This Week in StartupGhana newsletter. Do you know that lung cancer kills over 1.8 million people each year, and most cases are diagnosed too late? Ghana’s Revna Biosciences is partnering with AstraZeneca to change that, using advanced biomarker testing to catch lung cancer early and deliver personalized