Meltwater Foundation
meltwater.org Direct investor
The Meltwater Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 2008 as the non-profit arm of Meltwater. It drives job creation and economic growth in Africa through software entrepreneurship, delivering training and early-stage investment via its MEST program.
Meltwater Foundation is an accelerator headquartered in Accra, Ghana, founded in 2008. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in software, fintech, healthtech and education. 90 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back startups solving real problems—from fintech to healthtech, education to logistics.”
— Meltwater Foundation, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Stage
- Seed
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- software, fintech, healthtech, education, logistics
- Founded
- 2008
- Portfolio
- 90 companies
Team, as Meltwater Foundation publishes it
- Jorn Lyseggen Founder of MEST and Founder & Executive Chairman of Meltwater
- Natasha Nissar Meltwater Chief of Staff & Board Member at MEST
- Ashwin Ravichandran Programs and Portfolio Advisor
- Greg Coussa Strategic Director
- Emily Fiagbedzi AI Startup Program Director
- Femi Adewumi MESTx Operations Director
- Liana Tamakloe-Ekuadzi MESTx Senior Manager
- David Quartey Senior Finance Manager
- Angela Ankomah Duho MESTx Senior Manager
- Suglo-Konbo Ibrahim Research and Impact Manager
- Gerhard Malah MESTx Senior Manager
- Kwesi Amissah Transport and Security Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on meltwater.org. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Meltwater Foundation publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://meltwater.org/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://meltwater.org/team/people
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Record 6419 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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