Kosmos Innovation Center Business Booster
This program works with Ghanaian agribusinesses, providing capacity building and training to help them scale their business and achieve sustainability.
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This program is now in session. Stay tuned to read about our preliminary learnings this spring, and subscribe to our Medium page for upcoming stories about our bootcamps in Ghana!
The Kosmos Innovation Center Business Booster is an accelerator program developed by the Kosmos Innovation Center in partnership with Uncharted.
This 6-month (November-April) program will feature two 5-day bootcamps for local Ghanaian agribusinesses. The first bootcamp, Business Model Validation, is designed to provide entrepreneurs with a step-by-step methodology to quickly validate and refine their venture’s business model for growth. The second bootcamp, Investment Preparedness, is designed to prepare entrepreneurs to raise funding and introduce them to funders in the region.
The program is designed to help small and medium size enterprises:
Validate and refine their business model
Prepare their company for growth
Access the capital needed to build successful businesses
Whether your goal is to expand production, improve your product or service, or explore new marketing or distribution channels, this business accelerator program aims to strengthen companies that sustains livelihoods and creates jobs.
Here’s What Businesses Get
2 Bootcamps
Two 5-day in-person bootcamps, featuring world-class curriculum that has been used by businesses operating in 94 countries around the world
Mentor Introductions
A vast international network of world-class mentors who can share market insights and business development opportunities
Access to Capital
Key introductions to a community of impact investors, venture capitalists, angel investors, and capital advisors to fund the next stage of growth
Technology Partners
Access tools from technology partners to improve productivity and efficiency
Financial Management
Dedicated support from Growth Mosaic to get financials in order, build projections, and prepare to take on investment
Our Selected Ventures!
Congratulations to our select ventures who’ve committed to scaling local, Ghanaian businesses to have an increased market share in the agribusiness economy of Ghana.
About our ventures
Beautysecrets
Manufactures premium natural skincare products with ethically sourced African butters, oils, and herbs
Gees Fresh Point
Turns guinea fowl into a globally accepted high quality and healthy source of meat
Meannan Foods
Brings hygienic foods (specifically eggs) packaged in an attractive way to the local market, highlighting their health value
Meclink
Builds a competitive world class Ghanaian agriculture company with greenhouse technology
MorinaKing
Develops a plant based product as a protein substitute for the global market
MorinaConnect
Through the Moringa tree, connects farmers to the global market for the highest quality, moringa-powered products
Naama Meat
Builds a “farm to plate” operation that raises cows, or conditions mature cows, for the market as premium meat
Peini
Processes local natural oils into tertiary products in food and cosmetics
Tilly’s Farm
Produces high-quality pork products at affordable prices to meet the needs of our target market by optimizing and managing resources efficiently
Our Mentors
Facilitating mentor-mentee relationships is core to what we do, and this mentor team came together with the help of our partners Kosmos Energy and Impact Hub Accra. Here are the industry- experts who will be advising our selected ventures!
Timeline of Events
Our Partners
We have an amazing team of partners. Kosmos Innovation Center in Accra, Ghana is the true champion of this issue, supported by Kosmos Energy in Dallas, Texas. Uncharted’s implementation partner is the Impact Hub Accra, whose team ran an Investment Preparedness Lab during our first Lab cohort in 2015.
If you’re interested in partnering, send us an email!
Frequently Asked Questions
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This program, including both bootcamps, will be held at the Impact Hub in Accra, Ghana.
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Only one! Ventures that are selected will participate in the Business Model Validation bootcamp in November 2017, followed by the Investment Preparedness bootcamp in April 2018.
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Yes. The focus of this program is to find and equip local, promising Ghanaian agribusinesses to become investment ready.
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This differs for each program, but we typically choose 10-12 ventures.
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There is no cost! We just ask that your team commits to being present for both 5-day bootcamps, with checkins in between and follow up calls afterwards.
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Many of the mentors for this program will be local to the Ghanaian agribusiness ecosystem, but will feature some relevant international mentors as well. Please email Emily Scott to learn more if you are interested in being a mentor for this program!
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Email Emily, our Global Labs Director. She’ll get back to you shortly!
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Unfortuantely, applications for this program have closed. Stay tuned to see the companies that will participate!