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This Week in StartupGhana #10: |Zeepay closes its Series A.5 funding round | Leasafric secured € 700k debt | The regulator strikes again.
Welcome to This Week in StartupGhana newsletter. Blitz through what happened in Ghana’s innovation landscape over the last week. The big stories include: Funding Acquisition Regulation CSR
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Zeepay closes its $14 million Series A.5 funding round to support its ongoing Africa expansion.
Zeepay has successfully closed its $14 million Series A.5 equity funding round. The round was led by the global cooperative and social impact investor Oikocredit. Other investors in the round include the infrastructure investment platform Africa50, the local pensions-anchored fund, Injaro Ghana Venture Capital Fund, and Verdant Capital Hybrid Fund with a follow-on investment from
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This Week in StartupGhana #9: |Zeepay secures $3million | PayAngel journeys to the East |4DX secures $10.5 million for its third fund
Welcome to This Week in StartupGhana newsletter. Blitz through what happened in Ghana’s innovation landscape over the last week. Funding In Q1 2024, the pool of venture capital from which startups once drew nourishment remains dry; however, last week, three startups (Legendary Foods Africa, Zeepay, and Revna Biosciences) secured some funding. 4DX, the Pan-African venture
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Legendary Foods Africa scores additional funding from the Climate Resilient Africa Fund.
Legendary Foods, a Kumasi-based food tech company, has secured additional capital from the Climate Resilient Africa Fund, an impact-focused Africa venture capital fund. According to Shobhita Soor, the CEO of Legendary Foods, “The partnership amplifies our ability to scale with quality and aligns perfectly with our mission to introduce climate-resilient protein alternatives.” What is Legendary
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Revna Biosciences secures grant funding from develoPPP Ventures.
Revna Biosciences, an Accra-based biotechnology startup, has joined the cohort of startups that have secured grant funding from the develoPPP Ventures programme. The grant will enable the company to accelerate its research and development efforts, further enhance its cutting-edge technologies, and expand its portfolio of groundbreaking solutions. What problem is Revna Biosciences solving? Led by
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This Week in Startup Ghana #7 & #8: |Warc Africa raises $7.5 million to improve farmer income | GIZ Ghana boosts Ghana Climate Innovation Centre’s green entrepreneurship mission with €1.2 million | SC Ventures-backed SOLV launches in Ghana
Welcome to the This Week in StartupGhana newsletter. We have been on a hiatus for a few weeks. Whiles we were away, these were the headline stories in the Ghanaian ecosystem Funding Talent moves Accelerator Product launch
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This Week in Startup Ghana Newsletter #6: |Complete Farmer hits $300,000 crowdfunding target | Viamo leverages AI to bridge digital divide | Farmerline expands to Togo and Benin
Hello friends, Welcome to the Ghana Innovation Journal newsletter. Blitz what happened in Ghana’s innovation landscape over the last week. Funding Partnership Product Launch and Expansion Accelerator
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This Week in Startup Ghana Newsletter #5: |Wahu Mobility opens its factory | Kofa Technologies journeys to the East | Access Bank backs female founders
Hello Friends, Welcome to the Ghana Innovation Journal newsletter. Blitz what happened in Ghana’s innovation landscape over the two weeks. Funding Product Launch & Expansion Partnership
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Tullow partners Innohub to support early and growth stage agriventures in Ghana.
Tullow Oil has entered into a multi-year partnership under its new “Accelerating Progress Through Partnerships” community strategy with the Innohub Foundation to support budding agriculture ventures in Ghana. Being implemented by Innohub, the Tullow AgriVentures Programme (TAP) will identify and support entrepreneurs in setting up and growing their businesses. TAP aims to generate approximately 600
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After providing GHS 1 million credit to agrovets in 2023, Ghana’s Cowtribe joins the SAIS Accelerator Programme.
Cowtribe, Ghana’s leading full-stack animal vaccine distribution platform, has been selected for the Scaling Digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups (SAIS) Accelerator Programme. Implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the SAIS Investment Readiness Programme provides tailored support to tech start-ups from the agriculture, food, and livestock sectors to position them to raise capital