Scholarship, Grants and Funding Opportunities For Africans

Make-IT in Africa: AI Accelerator Program 2020

The accelerator has been designed by Ghana Tech Lab (GTL) to promote local innovations in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data usage.

The first cohort will support 10 AI startups from Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, and Uganda. The program partners are GIZ’s tech entrepreneurship and AI initiatives “Make-IT in Africa” and “FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All” and IBM.

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.

Benefits:

The Africa AI Accelerator program offers:

Focus areas

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.

Eligibility:

To be eligible to apply, startups must meet the following requirements:

NB: Must be willing to commit and be readily available for all virtual sessions for the 6 month period of the Accelerator Program as well as an on-site bootcamp and on-site demo days in Ghana (contingent on easing of travel restrictions by participating countries)

Deadline: 25th June, 2020

Apply Here: https://vc4a.com/make-it/africa-ai-accelerator-program/

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