Ghana Orange Corners Accelerator Programme 2025 | Are you a young Ghanaian Entrepreneirs? If yes, Orange Corners Accelerator Programme 2025 portal are now open, This programme is an initiative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, implemented by GrowthAfrica, Africa’s foremost business accelerator in partnership with Fidelity Bank, Vivo Energy Ghana, Meridian Port Services (MPS), and Cargill.
What is the Programme About
The programme goal is to support the growth of ambitious entrepreneurs while helping to develop Ghana’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. To achieve this, we empower young entrepreneurs to formalise their ventures by offering a structured business acceleration programme.
This includes access to capital, mentorship networks, and market opportunities. The Orange Corners Ghana initiative spans a 6-month acceleration programme comprising five 3-day workshops spaced four weeks apart.
It also involves post acceleration in-business visits over 9-12 months to facilitate the development and execution of growth plans, along with masterclasses and personalised coaching sessions.
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Additionally, the Orange Corners programme facilitates connections between innovative entrepreneurs and the private sector, providing avenues for accessing finance, notably through the Orange Corners Innovation Fund.
What Orange Corners can offer you
- Business acceleration: Structured business acceleration to help you audit, design and implement your business’ growth plan.
- Coaching and mentoring: Coaching and mentoring sessions to help you with your personal development as an entrepreneur and leader.
- Personalised follow-up: Access to experienced mentors and industry leaders to help you with feedback and follow up on your progress and development.
- Coaching and mentoring: Events and networking sessions to connect you to potential partners, entrepreneurs and eco-system players for your business growth.
- OCIF: Ventures successfully completing the programme can apply for the Orange Corners Innovation Fund, offering up to EUR50,000 in partial grant and loan at 5% interest for 2 years
- Further access to finance: Access to funding opportunities beyond the Orange Corners Innovation Fund.
Important Note:
- The Orange Corners programme offers significant benefits for entrepreneurs. It offers several online masterclasses and GrowHow sessions to offer practical industry insights for entrepreneurs.Successful applicants to the acceleration programme will benefit from a 6-month acceleration process and up to 12 months of post-acceleration catalytic support with an assigned growth catalysts.
- Participants will have an opportunity to access funding from the Orange Corners Innovation Fund and other sources of funding from partners and benefit from facilitated networking, mentorship and coaching sessions from industry professionals
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Eligibility:
- Your business is beyond the initial product-market fit phase, and has earned commercial, recurring revenue for at least 24 months.
- Have recurring revenues equivalent to at least USD 30,000 annually.
- Have at least one co-founder working in the business full-time and exclusively.
- Have at least one active co-founder in the business aged 18-35.
- Have matured and stabilized enough to employ a minimum of 3 full time employees on a permanent basis in addition to the founders.
- Your product/service is solving a clear need that can be identified as delivering on one or several SDG goals.
- Your product/service or business model is innovative (i.e. your approach to supply chain, production or distribution, and sales), and it provides a clear competitive advantage
- Women are especially encouraged to apply for this opportunity.
Important Structure:
The Orange Corners programme hosts 2 cohorts annually. In 2025, we will be recruiting Cohorts 10 and 11. Key dates for cohort 10 are below:
Cohort 10 Date:
- Application period for cohort 10: August 2, 2024 – September 1,2024
- Shortlisting and selection for cohort 10: September 1,2024– 23rd September 2024.
- Contracting and onboarding cohort 10: January 20, 2025 – January 24, 2025
- Cohort 10 officially commences: February 5, 2025
Cohort 11 Date:
- Application period for cohort 11: February 24, 2025– March 31,2025
- Shortlisting and selection for cohort 11: April 9,2025– May 20, 2025.
- Contracting and onboarding cohort 11: July 1, 2025 – July 4, 2025
- Cohort 11 officially commences: July 9, 2025
There will be 5 workshops for each cohort (Cohort 10 and 11) spaced 4 weeks apart and a Gazelle Investment Forum. Please see the dates below:
Cohort 10 workshop dates:
- Workshop 1: February 5, 2025 – February 7, 2025
- Workshop 2: March 12, 2025 – March 14, 2025
- Workshop 3: April 2, 2025 – April 4, 2025
- Workshop 4: April 28, 2025 – April 30, 2025
- Workshop 5: May 21, 2025 – May 23, 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
Masterclass Grow-How Events
- Grow-How Event – 30th January 2025
- Grow-How Event – 14th March 2025
- Grow-How Event – 8th May 2025
- Grow-How Event – 19th June 2025
- Grow-How Event – 31stt July 2025
- Grow-How Event – 18th September 2025
- Grow-How Event – 23rd October 2025
- Grow-How Event – 9th December 2025
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