{"id":6865,"date":"2025-07-13T14:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6865\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T14:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:32:25","slug":"apply-now-100000-african-ai-startup-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6865\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply Now: $100,000 African AI Startup Training Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u21d3 More from ICTworks<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Wayan Vota on July 8, 2025 &#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mest-ai-africa.png\" alt=\"mest ai africa funding\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>Digital skills and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/digital-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">technology solutions<\/a> are more critical for African economies as they embrace digital transformation. Countries are positioning themselves as major tech hubs as the world goes virtual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/inveneo\/subscribe-now\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign Up Now<\/a> for More Entrepreneurship Training Programs<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneurs need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">master artificial intelligence<\/a> and advanced AI solutions available today for business growth and development. AI skills are an important tool for promoting social and economic development, creating new jobs, and driving innovation.<\/p>\n<p>MEST AI Startup Program<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mestaistartupprogram.smapply.us\/prog\/mest_ai_startupprogram_class_of_2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MEST AI Startup Program<\/a> is a bold redesign of Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\u2019s flagship Training Program. It is built to prepare West Africa\u2019s most promising tech talents to build, launch, and scale world-class AI startups.<\/p>\n<p>West Africa has world-class tech talent, and it\u2019s time AI solutions built on the continent reach users everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The MEST AI Startup Program is a fully-funded, immersive experience hosted in Accra, Ghana. Over an intensive seven-month training phase, founders receive hands-on instruction, technical mentorship, and business coaching from companies such as OpenAI, Perplexity, and Google.<\/p>\n<p>The top ventures then advance to a four-month incubation period, and startups have an opportunity to pitch for pre-seed investment of up to $100, 000 and join the MEST Portfolio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mestaistartupprogram.smapply.us\/prog\/mest_ai_startupprogram_class_of_2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apply Now<\/a>! Deadline is August 22, 2025<\/p>\n<p>More Funding Opportunities<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/donors-support-digital-entrepreneurs-lmics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get startup investments<\/a>\u00a0for a technology business? Or learn how to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/win-grant-funding-startup-investments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win more contracts<\/a>? Then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/inveneo\/subscribe-now\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">please sign up now <\/a>to get our email updates. We are constantly publishing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/category\/funding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new funding opportunities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNow Read These Related Posts\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top:10px;border-top:1px solid #ccc;\">Filed Under: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/category\/featured\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Featured<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/category\/funding\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Funding<\/a> <br \/>More About: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial Intelligence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/entrepreneurship\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entrepreneurship<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/ict-training\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ICT Training<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/project-funding\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project Funding<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/start-up\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Startups<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/b94941f6a8bc374844f084add8e01460\" class=\"avatar avatar-68 photo wpfla round-avatars \" width=\"68\" height=\"68\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wayan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wayan Vota<\/a> co-founded ICTworks. He also co-founded Technology Salon, MERL Tech, ICTforAg, ICT4Djobs, ICT4Drinks, JadedAid, Kurante, OLPC News and a few other things.  Opinions expressed here are his own and do not reflect the position of his employer, any of its entities, or any ICTWorks sponsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u21d3 More from ICTworks &#13; By Wayan Vota on July 8, 2025 &#13; Digital skills and technology solutions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[181,28,158,7285,7286,1166],"class_list":{"0":"post-6865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-entrepreneurship","11":"tag-ict-training","12":"tag-project-funding","13":"tag-startups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}