TEDxAccra | ScaleUp Africa:

"What's development got to do with it?"

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.

Our stakholder groups

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 our innovative and impactful social initiatives.
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Philanthropists

Philanthropists

We provide help philanthropy innovate and diversify their giving plans. By supporting communities, leaders and visionaries in underserved communities we can help build the pipeline of future impact investments. We have various networks in the Agriculture, DEI, Tech, Creative Arts
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Entrepreneurs

Social Enterprises

We support overlooked and underserved global African initiatives, leaders, visionaries, value chains, ecosystems and communities. Programmes: please follow us and keep up to date via our Socials.

Skills & Tools

Skills & Tools

We help our network of communities, value chains and ecosystems by connect beneficiaries to relevant value adding skills development, tools and market access opportunities. We believe this joined up approach, together with long term, patient approach to grantmaking is where real impact kicks in.
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Public Sector

Public

We advise on, design and implement long-term solution-based programs that deliver real socio-economic value for governments, donors and 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.
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Public Sector

Public

We advise and design sustainable solution-based models that deliver real socio-economic value for governments, donors, DFIs.
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Corporations
We provide consulting, design, and implementation of strategic initiatives and projects to help you realize true impact as a responsible corporate citizen.

Who we are

The Team

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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.
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Projects

2020

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with Impact Investing Ghana
Global Advisory Board
Partnering for Change Events

Accelerator for Female Empowerment

COVID Resilience and Recovery Programme

Strengthening Supply

Boosting Profits For Female-Led Micro Agribusinesses With Digital & Financial Literacy Tools

Africa Summit 2021 – SME Engagement, Branding and Communications

New, Green Economy

Boosting Profits For Female-Led Micro Agribusinesses With Digital & Financial Literacy Tools

‘Green’ Agric, Food Processing and Product Marketing Capacity Building

Promoting “Africa’s Horticultural Highway”

Professionalising 14 National Women’s Groups And Associations With Over 1m Members

2020
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.
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 across Africa.
Woven Worldwide
Strengthening Supply Chains

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.

scale up africa

Projects

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 across Africa.
Woven Worldwide
Strengthening Supply Chains
2020
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.
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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.

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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.

scale up africa

Events

Coming Soon

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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

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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.
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IGNITE Insights

A culmination of conversations, feedback, interviews, and real nuggets from IGNITE Business Festival. This piece showcases so much more and how to support and Scale SMEs in Africa

TEDxAccra | ScaleUp Africa:

"What's development got to do with it?"

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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TEDxAccra | ScaleUp Africa:

“What’s development got to do with it?”