This Week in StartupGhana
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This Week in StartupGhana #69: The Hardware EdTech Scale-Up, AI Food Safety, and Carbon Removal
Welcome This Week in StartupGhana, your weekly intelligence on Ghana’s startup ecosystem. Here’s a look at the bold moves shaping the ecosystem this week. Deep Dive: STEMAIDE reaches 12,399 learners as hands-on STEM education gains traction. African EdTech has historically defaulted to software—low-bandwidth apps, SMS learning, and digital tutoring platforms. Why? Because hardware is notoriously
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This Week in StartupGhana #68: The $20M SME Boost + Hershey’s Healthtech Bet
Dear reader, Welcome to This Week in StartupGhana, our weekly insights Ghana’s startup ecosystem. Here’s a look at the bold moves shaping the ecosystem this week. Deep Dive: The $20M SME Play by Growth Investment Partners The capital gap for African SMEs is notoriously wide—often too large for microfinance, yet too risky or unstructured for
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This Week in StartupGhana #67: The GHS 383m Fund, Local Pension Capital, & The Italian Job
Hello Innovators, Welcome to Issue #67 of This Week in StartupGhana newsletter, our weekly intelligence of the critical news + funding rounds in Ghana’s startup ecosystem. Here’s a look at the bold moves shaping the ecosystem this week. Deep Dive: The GHS 383M Ci-Gaba Fund of Funds The capital bottleneck in the region has been
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This Week in StartupGhana #66: The $1million clean beauty bet
Hello Innovators Welcome to Issue #66 of This Week in StartupGhana newsletter, our weekly intelligence of the critical news + funding rounds in Ghana’s startup ecosystem. Here’s a look at the bold moves shaping the ecosystem this week. Deep Dive: Lyvv Cosmetics raises $1m to define the clean beauty category. This week, Lyvv Cosmetics has
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This Week in StartupGhana #65: Fidelity’s Green Fund + GHS 1 Billion Milestone
Hello Innovators Welcome to Issue #65 of This Week in StartupGhana newsletter, 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. Deep Dive: Fidelity Bank’s Green Fund This week marks a definitive turning point for climate-smart infrastructure in Ghana.
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This Week in StartupGhana #64: 2025 Ghana Startup and Innovation Ecosystem Report
Hello Innovators Is the Ghana Startup Ecosystem “crashing” or just recalibrating? We have published the 2025 Ghana Startup & Innovation Ecosystem Report. Get the data-backed insights needed for your 2026 strategy here: https://shorturl.at/CXgtk THE HEADLINE: The Ecosystem Recalibration Total startup funding in Ghana reached $66 million in the last year, a 48% decline from 2024.
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This Week in StartupGhana #63: The French Bet on Local AI + Farm 360’s $1m revenue mark
Hello Innovators, Apologies for going MIA over the last two weeks. We were swamped with deadlines! But the ecosystem hasn’t slowed down, and this past week was incredibly busy. While the world gathered in New Delhi for the India AI Summit, we were on the ground joining the 3-day KNUST AI4SD conference in Kumasi. While
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This Week in StartupGhana #62: $32m for Investors + Visa’s New Favorite
Hello Innovators, Welcome to the This Week in StartupGhana newsletter. Liquidity is the headline for this week. Between Ci-Gaba’s $7.5M close to fund local investors, Sahel Capital’s $2.4M injection into cocoa, and a new micro-loan fund for female founders, capital is flowing downstream. But it comes with a catch: The regulators are watching, and the
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This Week in StartupGhana #61: Naa Sika’s French Move + Wangara’s New Boss
Hello Innovators, Welcome to This Week in StartupGhana #60. Expanding beyond Ghana’s borders is a major milestone for any local fintech. This week, we spotlight a significant move into Francophone West Africa, signalling a growing appetite for regional market capture. Alongside this expansion, the investment landscape is evolving with high-profile leadership changes at Wangara Green
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This Week in StartupGhana #60: Ghanaian startups raised $65 million in 2025.
As we prepare to launch the 2025 Ghana Startup and Innovation Ecosystem Report, we are sharing early insights with our readers. The report offers a comprehensive review of Ghana’s startup landscape—highlighting the successes, constraints, and structural shifts that defined the ecosystem over the past year Ghana’s funding trajectory in 2025 tells a story of stabilisation