Artificial Intelligence
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Seven startups advance to the incubation phase of the MEST AI Startup Programme.
The MEST AI Startup Program has selected seven ventures to advance from its training phase into incubation, following seven months of product development, customer validation and business training. The selected startups span food and health, data infrastructure, financial compliance, maternal healthcare, mobility, agriculture and AI infrastructure. Their products target practical challenges across African markets, with…
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How 3Farmate’s FAMA robot is replacing hoes and cutlasses on farms.
.Ghana’s agriculture sector still runs largely on hoes, cutlasses, and unreliable manual labour. In a country with millions of hectares of arable land, that gap between potential and actual productivity is what 3Farmate’s co-founder and CEO, Clinton Anani, is trying to close with FAMA—a fully autonomous, locally built farm robot designed to handle planting, fertilising,…
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African HR & payroll SaaS leader becomes Seamless Technologies, unveils AI solutions for Ghana’s workforce.
Africa’s leading HR technology company, SeamlessHR, today announced its evolution into Seamless Technologies, marking a new chapter in the company’s growth and reflecting its vision to build technology that powers work, business, and everyday life across Africa. Going forward, the company will operate in Ghana under the Seamless Technologies brand, bringing together its expanding portfolio…
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Speeding up justice: How Kwame AI is helping Ghana tackle its courtroom backlog.
The maxim that justice delayed is justice denied is a haunting reality in many parts of the developing world. When legal disputes drag on for years, businesses stall, human rights languish, and public trust in the rule of law erodes. In Ghana, the legal system operates under an overwhelming caseload. Only 445 judges and magistrates…
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Analysis: Ghana’s AI Strategy is a laudable list of operating imperatives, not a strategy.
Ghana’s AI strategy is a laudable list of operating imperatives, not a strategy. Ghana’s newly launched National Artificial Intelligence strategy deserves credit for treating AI as a national development question rather than a narrow technology policy issue. It is one of the more ambitious public AI documents to emerge from Africa, linking artificial intelligence to…
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The Death of the Hoe: 3Farmate launches fully autonomous robot to tackle manual farming.
Ghanaian agritech startup, 3Farmate is poised to transform the Africa’s agricultural sector with the launch of its innovative autonomous farming robot, FAMA. The Field Autonomous Machine for Agriculture (FAMA) promises to address longstanding challenges in tropical farming by boosting productivity, reducing costs, and enhancing food security through precision AI. Founded in 2021 by Clinton Anani…
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6 Questions with Dr. Paul Amissah (CEO, Qwesi AI)
6 Questions is where we cut through the noise to spotlight the innovators reshaping Ghana’s future. In each edition, we go beyond the headlines to ask six pointed questions — about the ideas they’re testing, the risks they’re taking, and the impact they’re chasing. For this edition, we sit down with Dr. Paul Amissah —…
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BezoMoney pivots to Exo AI, betting big on agentic finance for the continent.
Ghana-based fintech BezoMoney has rebranded as Exo AI following an internal acquisition. An internal acquisition usually means that one part of a company (such as a team, product, or intellectual property) is acquired by another group or entity closely tied to the original company, often the same founders or insiders. The transition, which involves the…
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MEST Africa doubles down on AI with the launch of a new AI Startup program.
The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST Africa), one of Africa’s leading tech incubators, is pivoting to artificial intelligence with the launch of its new AI Startup Program. The AI Startup program is a redesigned version of its long-standing Entrepreneurs-in-Training (EIT) program, focusing on building the next generation of AI entrepreneurs in Africa. For over…
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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…