Orange Corners Ghana Accelerator Programme 2025 for Young Ghanaian Entrepreneurs.

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Application Deadline: March thirty first, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 Orange Corners Ghana Accelerator Programme. The Orange Corners acceleration programme in Ghana is a collaborative initiative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, carried out by ProgressAfrica, Africa’s main enterprise accelerator. In partnership with Fidelity Bank, Emergent Payments, Friesland Campina, Vivo Energy Ghana, Meridian Port Services (MPS), Koudijs, Peoples Pension Trust, and Cargill, the programme goals to help the expansion of formidable entrepreneurs whereas nurturing Ghana’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

The Orange Corners Ghana initiative spans a six-month acceleration programme consisting of 5 three-day workshops spaced 4 weeks aside.

Additionally, post-acceleration in-business visits over 9-12 months will facilitate the event and execution of progress plans, together with masterclasses and personalised teaching periods.

Eligibility:

• Your enterprise is past the preliminary product-market match part, and has earned industrial, recurring income for no less than 24 months.​
• Have recurring revenues equal to no less than USD 30,000 yearly.​
• Have no less than one co-founder working within the enterprise full-time and solely.
• Have no less than one energetic co-founder within the enterprise aged 18-35. ​
• Have matured and stabilized sufficient to make use of a minimal of three full time staff on a everlasting foundation along with the founders.
• Your product/service is fixing a transparent want that may be recognized as delivering on one or a number of SDG targets.  ​
• Your product/service or  enterprise mannequin is revolutionary (i.e. your strategy to produce chain, manufacturing or distribution, and gross sales), and it gives a transparent aggressive benefit  ​
• Women are particularly inspired to apply for this chance.​

Benefits

• Further Access to Finance: Opportunities past the Orange Corners Innovation Fund for funding.
• Business Acceleration: Structured help to audit, design, and implement your small business’ progress plan.
• Coaching and Mentoring: Events, networking periods, and training periods to attach you to potential companions and help in your private improvement as an entrepreneur and chief.
• Orange Corners Innovation Fund (OCIF): Ventures finishing the programme can apply for as much as EUR50,000 in partial grant and mortgage at 5% curiosity for 2 years.
• Personalized Follow-Up: Access to skilled mentors and trade leaders for suggestions and help.
• Successful candidates to the acceleration programme will profit from a 6-month acceleration course of and as much as 12 months of post-acceleration catalytic help with an assigned progress catalysts. Participants may have a possibility to entry funding from the Orange Corners Innovation Fund and different sources of funding from companions and profit from facilitated networking, mentorship and training periods from trade professionals

Cohort 11 Date:

• Application interval for cohort 11: February 24, 2025– March 31,2025
• Shortlisting and choice for cohort 11: April 9,2025– May 20, 2025.
• Contracting and onboarding cohort 11: July 1, 2025 – July 4, 2025
• Cohort 11 formally commences: July 9, 2025

Cohort 11 workshop dates:

• Workshop 1: July 9, 2025 – July 11, 2025
• Workshop 2: August 6, 2025 – August 8, 2025
• Workshop 3: September 3, 2025 – September 5, 2025
• Workshop 4: October 1, 2025 – October 3, 2025
• Workshop 5:  October 28, 2025– October 30, 2025
• Gazelle Forum: November 25, 2025

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Orange Corners Ghana Accelerator Programme