Norbert Dziwornu, the founder of Startup Accra, a community for startups, entrepreneurs and investors and his partner Nicholas Mamya has built a gift-sharing platform, Giftpal. They did so two years ago. According to Norbert, the need to get a gift for his friend on her birthday prompted the platform’s relevance …

Opanet, an AI-fintech startup, has emerged winner of the second edition of the Acceleration Pitch Day under the Ghana Startup Summit(GSS). The startup bagged 10,000 cedis as seed funding, technical equipment, and post-incubation support after beating out eight startups in an intense pitching competition Opanet is an open banking infrastructure…

The tourism sector was one of the hardest-hit sectors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before that, the industry contributed between 7–8% of Africa’s GDP and employed over 24 million people. Post-COVID, that number has dropped by more than 51%. Although things are picking up again, it is not as fast…

Ronald Nettey, a 26-year-old graduate from Ashesi University, has built a petty cash management platform called Request App. Ronald is an experienced Ghanaian co-founder with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He is skilled in Web Design, Mobile App Development, and User Interaction Design and Experience…

Francis Kofigah is a budding serial entrepreneur with a BSc in Physics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. After completion, he applied for one of MEST’s technology incubator programs, where he trained as a software engineer. The entrepreneur started several startups, which failed, but that did not…

Founded in 2020, Bookney also offers book-publishing related services like book cover designs, art illustration for children’s books, comic books and novels, book trailer videos, and book marketing services. Esther Enewerome Odafe-Ohakah and Precious Osikha founded it.

Many schools in Africa lack essential creative skill learning resources and materials. Most African schools do not have any ICT (Information and Communication Technology) infrastructure to implement most EdTech solutions. The situation deprives students of the benefits that EdTech can bring to the classroom, including keeping learners engaged and progressing…

Somewhere in Lagos, Nigeria, an assistance company is rethinking how startups, business coaches and business owners can get more work done while delegating the jobs that no one else on their team has time to do. They want to help startups cut down hiring costs by delegating their experts(iAssistants) to…

When we think of money, we think of two things; security and convenience. However, over the period, traditional banking has got individuals rethinking the need to save in that method because it simply isn’t convenient anymore. There is the thing with slow processes, long queues, faulty ATMs, to mention a…