Empowering Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs

Kosmos Innovation Center is transforming dreams into thriving businesses in Ghana, Senegal, and Mauritania.
Join us as we invest in the future – one entrepreneur at a time.

Our Story

Kosmos Innovation Center helps fund small business ideas in Africa, especially for young entrepreneurs in Ghana, Senegal, and Mauritania. We are now a leading organisation driving positive change through empowerment and innovation. Watch the video and see more of how we are helping African innovators.

Funding for Small Business Ideas in Africa

Each Kosmos Innovation Center program is driven by local staff and private sector experts, resulting in a distinctive focus on commercial solutions and local knowledge. Our customized, best-in-class business support programs feature a mix of skills training, mentorship and seed funding.

We Inspire

We light a fire in young people… by training them to see opportunities that others miss, giving them the confidence to view themselves as entrepreneurs not employees and job creators instead of job seekers. We do it by delivering a best-in-class leadership and entrepreneurship program.

We Invest

We go all in … by providing a full life-cycle of support to the most promising entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses. We do it through tailored coaching, skills building, expert mentorship, seed funding, and facilitating connections within and across industries.

We Transform

We go big … by positioning young entrepreneurs to tackle tough problems in key sectors and channeling their talent into innovative, private sector-led solutions. We do this through the Kosmos Innovation Center’s distinctive focus on commercial solutions and local knowledge.

Where We Work

Discover how Kosmos Innovation Center stands out in supporting and empowering young entrepreneurs in Ghana, Senegal, and Mauritania.

Ghana

Established in 2016, Kosmos Innovation Center Ghana is helping to breathe new life into agriculture, transforming it into an engine of growth and job creation.

Find out more here.

Mauritania

Launched in 2018, the Kosmos Innovation Center Mauritania is helping young, entrepreneurial Mauritanians develop the skills to turn ideas into reality.

Find out more here.

Senegal

Kosmos Innovation Center Senegal is helping young business leaders in Senegal develop the technical skills needed to grow successful and sustainable businesses.

Find out more here.

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The Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) invests in young entrepreneurs and small businesses who have big ideas and want to see their country grow.

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