Africa AI Accelerator Program

The Program has been structured to provide startups with product development and business development support through a blended accelerator program with a virtual and physical interface. Customized to boost collaboration between startups and corporates, commercial partners, and investors, participating startups will receive support to meet clear growth aspirations through measurable targets setting.

The Africa AI Accelerator program offers:

• 6 months of tailored and interactive virtual and physical sessions
• A fully-funded bootcamp training experience
• Connections to global networks and mentors
• Coaching and mentorship from AI experts from IBM
• Access to IBM’s Digital Nation Africa (DNA) platform and other digital tools
• Investment opportunities
• Strengthening technical capacity
• Strengthening business capacity
• Support to refine your AI solution
• Matching to cooperates as potential clients or partners

We especially look for startups that

1. Have female founders: Ghana Tech Lab, GIZ, and IBM are committed to encourage and support female founders in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
2. Work on AI and health: Artificial intelligence provides many opportunities to support and improve health services and the current COVID-19 pandemic reinforced efforts to use this potential to support strained health systems.
3. Work on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and data collection for NLP applications: African languages are currently under-resourced in the area of NLP while NLP applications offer many opportunities for inclusion, access to digital services and sustainable development.
4. Have an open-source and open data-oriented business models: Open source and open data provides the opportunity for ecosystems to evolve and collective efforts to solve problems.