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HOPin Academy Is Building a Reason to Stay in Northern Ghana
In Tamale, HOPin Academy puts business coaching, digital skills and a footballer’s Plan B within reach. Its bet: young people should be able to build a future without leaving home to find one.
Ghana Tech Lab Wants Your First Business to Start in a Classroom
Free digital training is only the opening lesson. Ghana Tech Lab connects local classrooms, startup coaching and seed grants - with a practical question waiting at the end: will anybody buy what you build?
Ghana’s young entrepreneurs built themselves a seat at the table
From a circle of 15 founders to a national business network, GCYE has put training, shared workspace and a revolving fund behind its advocacy. A change of chief executive now tests how well that institution travels beyond its founder.
Kobby Amoah
Kobby Amoah is the co-founder and CEO of River Health, a Minneapolis-based subscription health plan built for hourly workers in the United States. Born in Ghana and educated at Wartburg College and MIT's idea-stage accelerator, he previously founded Obaa, a mobile electronic medical records venture for developing countries. River Health pairs virtual primary care, behavioral health, and prescription delivery for a flat monthly fee, and has partnered with national restaurant operators to bring coverage to employees who fall through the gaps of traditional insurance.