The African Business Community Development (ABCD) Hub will select the first batch of small businesses into its Accelerated Business Development Institute to participate in an Investment Readiness Program.
The ABCD Hub, is gearing up to hold its first pitch event on 5th June, 2021 at the Headquarters of OYA Capital Management, Accra. The event, is the pinnacle in a series to be held by the Hub, as it qualifies the first class of 2021 for the Hub’s Business Development Institute’s investment readiness program.
This event is expected to attract about 50 attendees in-person (observing COVID-19 protocols) and over 200 participants online, connecting important stakeholders involved in Ghana’s small business ecosystem. Hub graduates can qualify for funding from eager conscientious Black investors from the USA, Canada, and the Black Diaspora globally who want to feel connected to Africa and give back through helping to build Ghana through investment.
The team of judges at the pitch event includes professionals from across the globe who will select businesses for the program. Participants will receive management support from experts, solid strategic planning, and investment readiness support to enable them reach the next level to scale, create jobs, and get to the enterprise level. The Hub’s ultimate goal is to create job creators who will employ our youth with living wage career positions.
Prior to the pitching event on 5th June, 2021, the Hub will have two briefing sessions to provide more information, after which applications will be opened for the pitching event. The briefing sessions would be held as follow; The ABCD investment readiness program interest meeting – for businesses (Virtual) will be held on 18th May, 2021 between 7:00pm to 8:00pm and In-person and virtual on 22nd May, 2021 between 10:00am – 12:00pm at OYA Management Capital, Accra
Interested persons can register for both events on https://abcdhub.org/events/
Nataki Kambon, the Executive Director of the ABCD Hub, believes that entrepreneurs have the power to change the world because they innovate to make lives better, they create the jobs that allow billions to provide for their families, and they can use their profits and resources to positively influence what kind of world we live in. As a small business consultant, Nataki has helped a range of clients from commercial contractors, tech firms, retailers, medical facilities, professionals, and even rocket scientists launch, operate, and scale. Through the ABCD Hub, she seeks to use the pitching event and the Investment Readiness Program as platforms to help transform conscientious Black business owners into the community-building entrepreneurial leaders needed for Black economic empowerment and self-determination.
The ABCD Hub is an ecosystem where conscientious Black stakeholders and vetted viable Black-owned businesses meet to profit together through expanding markets, creating jobs, and sustainably building and improving the everyday lives of our youth, our people, our communities, & our economies.
