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IGNITE Insights 2020
A culmination of conversations, feedback, interviews, and real nuggets from IGNITE Business Festival 2020. This piece showcases so much more and how to support and Scale SMEs in Africa
Re-imagining Corporate Engagement with African SME
Engaging with an external implementation partner such as Scaleup Africa to design and deliver cutting-edge SME and Startup engagement initiatives to drive Africa's socio-economic development. SMEs account for 33% of Africa's GDP and play a central in Africa's collective prosperity.
Who we are
ScaleUp Africa is a dynamic social enterprise which is a women-led B2B Entrepreneurship Development and Corporate Innovation Advisory firm.
We provide growth support services to SME's through Strategic Corporate/Foundation/DFI and NGO Partnerships with a focus on scaling youth/women-led Micro and Small Business in Africa and the Diaspora.
We provide growth support services to SME's through Strategic Corporate/Foundation/DFI and NGO Partnerships with a focus on scaling youth/women-led Micro and Small Business in Africa and the Diaspora.
Our Mission
We are on a mission to boost sustainable development outcomes and the prospects of women and youth through education, skills capacity building and support initiatives with corporations, foundations, development partners and philanthropists.
The Team
Amma
Gyampo
Co-Founder & CEO
An Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Board Advisor and Consultant to Impact focused Organizations and SMEs; she advises on Tech, Agribusiness, Sustainable Development, Impact Investing, Diversity, Skills Development, Diaspora Engagement. Amma has over 15 years of consulting experience working with clients including BlackBerry and Vodafone in the Europe. Her work and thought leadership have been highlighted in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com and BBC.
Olivia
Asiedu-Ntow
Co-Founder & COO
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 and 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.
Join Our Clientele
Corporations
Corporations
We provide consulting, design and implementation of strategic initiatives and projects to help you realize true impact as a responsible corporate citizen. Sponsor one of Africa’s most innovative initiatives.
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Foundations
Foundations
We provide consulting, design and implementation of strategic initiatives and projects to help your Foundation/Philanthropy or Development organisation to realize true impact.
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Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs
If you are an African Entrepreneur we can support you through our Programmes: please sign up and keep up to date via the following
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Senior Talents
Senior Talents
We are ScaleUp Africa and one of the ways we help our ecosystem is to connect them to the best, most experienced African Talent.
Join our community if you have over 5 years’ professional working experience in industry and are looking for exciting new employment opportunities.
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Public
Public
We advise and design sustainable solution-based models that deliver real socio-economic value for governments, donors, DFIs.
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Corporations
Corporations
We provide consulting, design and implementation of strategic initiatives and projects to help you realize true impact as a responsible corporate citizen. Sponsor one of Africa’s most innovative initiatives.
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Social Investors
Social Investors
We provide consulting, design and implementation of strategic initiatives and projects to help your Foundation/Philanthropy or Development organisation to realize true impact.
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Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs
If you are an African Entrepreneur we can support you through our Programmes: please sign up and keep up to date via the following: CRRP and Entrepreneur Needs Assessment
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Senior Talents
Senior Talents
We are ScaleUp Africa and one of the ways we help our ecosystem is to connect them to the best, most experienced African Talent. Join our community if you have over 5 years’ professional working experience in industry and are looking for exciting new employment opportunities.
Learn More
Public
Public
We advise and design sustainable solution-based models that deliver real socio-economic value for governments, donors, DFIs.
Learn More
Corporations
We provide consulting, design, and implementation of strategic initiatives and projects to help you realize true impact as a responsible corporate citizen.
Projects
2020
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ScaleUp Africa has had great success in providing knowledge sharing, capacity building, financial inclusion, market access, value chain and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs of African descent globally
IGNITE Pan-African Business Festival
Accelerator for Female Empowerment
COVID Resilience and Recovery Programme
Woven WorldSWide
Strengthening Supply
During this programme with ESOKO, ScaleUp Africa trained almost 300 micro enterprises in the Agriculture sector on the full potential of the mobile phone.
Survival Series
ScaleUp Africa was one of the first entrepreneurial support companies in Africa to ‘go virtual’ to meet the critical support needs of SMEs accross Africa.
IGNITE - Pan-African Business Festival
ScaleUp Africa has had great success in providing knowledge sharing, capacity building, financial inclusion, market access, value chain and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs of African descent globally.
Projects
A brief write-up of project partner goes here. Either that or key achievements of the project. Open for discussion
A brief write-up of project partner goes here. Either that or key achievements of the project. Open for discussion
ESOKO - AgriTech
Boosting Profits For Female-Led Micro Agribusinesses With
Digital & Financial Literacy Tools
During this programme with ESOKO, ScaleUp Africa trained almost 300 micro enterprises in the Agriculture sector on the full potential of the mobile phone. Due to low literacy rates, most agribusinesses are unable to access information pertaining to Climate, Market Pricing etc, limiting their productivity and profitability. Training content featured different mobile money, information, operational procedures and scenarios in the local language – enabling the women to leverage their mobile phones as a Business Tool for the first time.
Access to digital credit services and market information like commodity prices were some important outcomes of the since most of these women. The project enabled them to make informed decisions about when, where and at what price to sell their commodities – using their mobile phone to access real time market price information from district and regional markets to increase their profits.
This is a excellent company!
personally enjoyed the energy & the professional support the whole team gave to us into creating website.
Herman MillerGraphic Designer 
I wanted to hire the best and after
looking at several other companies,
knew Jacob was the perfect guy for the
job. he is a true professional.
Jeremy SmithCreative Head
IGNITE - Pan-African Business Festival
ScaleUp Africa has had great success in providing knowledge sharing, capacity building, financial inclusion, market access, value chain and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs of African descent globally.
Events
Coming Soon
Supporting the next generation of Agricultural Entrepreneurs
Our CEO and Co-founder, Amma Gyampo, will be joining a truly world-class line-up of speakers who will be sharing their insights and exploring the huge variety of exciting opportunities for innovations in food and agriculture that exist in countries across Africa.
24th June: 11am GMT
INSIGHTS
Re-imagining Corporate Engagement with African SME
Engaging with an external implementation partner such as Scaleup Africa to design and deliver cutting-edge SME and Startup engagement initiatives to drive Africa’s socio-economic development.
IGNITE Insights 2020
A culmination of conversations, feedback, interviews, and real nuggets from IGNITE Business Festival 2020. This piece showcases so much more and how to support and Scale SMEs in Africa
Re-imagining Corporate Engagement with African SME
Engaging with an external implementation partner such as Scaleup Africa to design and deliver cutting-edge SME and Startup engagement initiatives to drive Africa's socio-economic development. SMEs account for 33% of Africa's GDP and play a central in Africa's collective prosperity.
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IGNITE Insights 2020
A culmination of conversations, feedback, interviews, and real nuggets from IGNITE Business Festival 2020. This piece showcases so much more and how to support and Scale SMEs in Africa
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