Accelerator
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Inside Halcyon Accelerator’s mission to scale African climate tech.
Climate change is no longer a future threat for sub-Saharan Africa, it is an active disruptor of food production. Farmers across the continent face more frequent droughts, volatile shifts in rainfall patterns, and rising temperatures that heavily strain local food systems. Ironically, while smallholder farmers produce over 90% of the continent’s food, they remain among…
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Beyond incubators: The emergence of venture studios in Ghana.
After a decade of incubator-led growth, a new model is taking shape in Ghana’s startup support ecosystem. Rather than supporting founders at arm’s length, venture studios operate inside the company-building process—co-creating ideas, assembling teams, and driving execution from day one. In our 2025 State of the Ghana Startup and Innovation Ecosystem Report, we examined this…
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20 impact startups join the 2026 UNICEF Ghana Start-up Lab Accelerator.
UNICEF Ghana has admitted 20 technology-driven social impact startups into the sixth cohort of the Start-up Lab. The selected companies are developing solutions that address issues affecting children and young people, including access to education, healthcare, nutrition, climate resilience, and financial services. During the six-month programme, founders will take part in a venture development curriculum…
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Sesi Technologies selected for Halcyon’s Climate Resilience & Food Security Africa Accelerator.
Ghana’s Sesi Technologies has been selected for Halcyon’s Climate Resilience & Food Security Africa Accelerator. The highly competitive accelerator program supports innovators building solutions for food systems and climate challenges across the continent. Sesi Technologies joins a cohort of 15 other African founders drawn from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. “African…
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10 female-led startups selected for Standard Chartered’s Women in Tech Accelerator Program.
Ten women-led startups have been selected to join the fifth cohort of the Standard Chartered Futuremakers Women in Tech (WiT) Accelerator Program, an initiative by Standard Chartered Bank. Launched in 2020 and implemented in partnership with Village Capital and the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre, the incubator equips women-led or owned tech-enabled businesses with the essential…
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25 impact-driven ventures selected for the UNICEF Startup Lab Accelerator.
Twenty-five tech-enabled startups, spanning industries such as education, health, nutrition, WASH, climate action, financial inclusion, and youth employment, have been selected for the 5th cohort of the UNICEF StartUp Lab accelerator programme. Participating startups will go through a structured curriculum of six venture-building modules, covering areas such as product development, business modelling, finance, marketing, and…
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Agro Innova selected for the Endeavor-FMO African Agritech Scaleup Program.
Agro Innova, the Ghana-focused agtech, has been selected for Endeavor South Africa’s African Agritech Scaleup Program. Funded by FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, the program aims to address the growth challenges faced by African agri-ech startups and help these high-impact companies scale and raise private capital. At the forefront of digitizing African agriculture, Agro…
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Regulon and Zerone AnalytiQs picked for the Google for Startups Accelerator programme.
Two of Ghana’s most promising startups, Regulon and Zerone AnalytiQs, have been selected for the 2025 Google for Startups Accelerator programme. Selected from a pool of over 1,500 applicants across the continent, they stand out as part of a highly competitive cohort of 15 startups using AI-first approaches to solve local and global problems. These…