Passionate About Pan-African & Diaspora Economic Empowerment

- Entrepreneurship Growth - Advocacy - Ecosystem Building - Storytelling -

We Are LIVE

IGNITE 6 - 7 AUGUST 2020

Who we are

ScaleUp Africa is a dynamic, innovative women-led B2B Enterprise Education and Development Organisation offering advisory and growth support services. We are here for Venture Investors,Foundations, DFIs, Corporations and post-incubation, youth/women-led Small Businesses in Africa and the Diaspora.

We deliver venture Growth Support, Talent and Skills Development programmes tailored to the needs of women and youth entrepreneurs. We're passionate about transforming and improving the sustainable growth and investability prospects of more black-owned small businesses, globally.

IGNITE, our digital Pan African-Diaspora Entrepreneurship Growth Festival comes off on 6 Aug.

ScaleUp Africa's Mission is to grow scalable ventures in sectors such as Green Energy, Creative & Lifestyle, Education, Health, Agriculture and Tech industries.

With a laser focus on achieving meaningful change through African-Diaspora Entrepreneurship, Economic Empowerment & Justice, ScaleUp Africa evokes a re-imagining of the very nature of support available to high-growth SMEs.

Africa is awash with ideation, startup and short term programs that have failed to create the volume of decent jobs. ScaleUp Africa seeks to transform the ecosystem by improving access, support, resource allocation, growth outcomes, economic development, job creation and investability of SMEs.

How we can help you

We serve Foundations, DFIs, Corporations and established SMEs to solve our most pressing challenges together through our professional Enterprise Development content, programs, professional service experts and events.

Our focus is on growing and sustaining African-Diaspora businesses with high-growth potential, led by women and youth entrepreneurs.

Our Process

How can you make sure your programmes are impactful and making a real difference? Taking accountability and tracking results is what we do and we do it very well.

Key Venture Growth Metrics will include: Job Creation, Revenue Growth, CAC, Profitability, New Clients

Discovery

Discovering what is viable and obtainable for your business and in line with your Strategic goals.

We support:

Venture Investors

DFIs

Corporations

Foundations

Governments

Agencies

Design

We work with you to design a programme be it capacity building, acceleration programmes, talent acquisition, which fits into your strategic business goals in the areas of Gender, Diversity, Youth, Employment, Enterprepreneurship, Innovation Education and Empowerment

Implementation

There are those who think and there are those who do. We do both but if you need us to implement systems, programmes in line with your strategic investor portfolio, SDG, ESG or CSR goals, ScaleUp Africa can help you.

Analysis & Review

Our Co-Founders

Amma Gyampo

Co-Founder & CEO

Olivia Asiedu-Ntow

Co-Founder & COO

Amma Gyampo is an Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Board Advisor and Consultant to Impact and Africa-focused Organisations and SMEs; she advises on Tech, Agribusiness, Sustainable Development, Impact Investing, Diversity, Skills Development, Tourism Diaspora Engagement. Amma has over 15 years of consulting experience working with clients including BlackBerry and Vodafone in the Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Gyampo

Olivia has over 15 years experience in building and developing brands both in Europe and Africa. She has entrepreneurial zeal and a passion for growth and development. She has been prolific in Global & Pan African agencies. Her strength is in developing brands and building a connection between them and their stakeholders. Olivia is relentless, a force of nature, shrewd, personable and above all a real connector.

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