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Creative EconomyIntelligence

Independent intelligence. A wider perspective.

Making the Creative Economy Visible.

Understand creative ventures, investment and employment through clear, connected intelligence.

Two people discussing work at a laptop in a light-filled café in Lagos, Nigeria.
Ideas take shape togetherLagos, Nigeria · Photo by Ninthgrid / UnsplashIllustrative development photography. Subjects are not presented as EWG participants or platform beneficiaries.
Developed by Ridtech LabsCreative ventures. Capital flows. Measurable observations.

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A clearer view of the whole portfolio.

Synthetic demonstration

Data cutoff: · USD

Fictional ventures

120

2 cohorts · 2025 and 2026

About this metric: Fictional ventures

The distinct startups matching your selected cohort, sector and search filters.

Calculation and limitations

Committed investment

$5,451,207.00

Received: $2,447,191.65

About this metric: Committed investment

The amount promised in recorded commitments, distinct from money received.

Calculation and limitations

Observed headcount

802

102/120 current observations

About this metric: Observed headcount

The latest recorded employment headcount after cohort start and on or before the data cutoff.

Calculation and limitations

Observed net employment change

95

90/120 matched observations only

About this metric: Observed net employment change

The change between baseline and current headcount where both observations exist.

Calculation and limitations

Capital in motion

Synthetic commitments and receipts · USD

Only months with recorded financial events are shown; gaps between months are not a continuous timeline.

CommittedReceived
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Synthetic monthly investment in USD
MonthCommittedReceived
2025-02$537,599.00$0.00
2025-03$291,320.00$97,651.50
2025-04$412,747.00$58,099.25
2025-05$459,663.00$184,525.70
2025-06$557,561.00$326,873.25
2025-07$145,265.00$267,693.20
2025-08$408,407.00$115,575.05
2025-09$0.00$163,367.00
2025-10$0.00$58,562.70
2025-11$0.00$15,085.60
2026-02$455,253.00$0.00
2026-03$395,829.00$94,517.00
2026-04$407,499.00$68,908.25
2026-05$348,571.00$101,540.90
2026-06$139,791.00$254,099.25
2026-07$549,860.00$137,692.15
2026-08$341,842.00$210,057.05
2026-09$0.00$181,131.85
2026-10$0.00$111,811.95

The ventures behind the numbers

01—03
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Incomplete employment coverage: 14 missing baselines; 18 missing current snapshots. Missing data is never zero. All records are fictional; these are not Ghana creative economy statistics.

Clarity, from the ground up

Better questions.
A more complete picture.

Bring the portfolio into focus without losing the detail. From a single venture to a cohort comparison, every number has a definition and a boundary.

01

See the portfolio.

Connect ventures, sectors and cohorts in one considered view. Move from the bigger picture to the records behind it.

02

Follow the capital.

Separate investment commitments from actual receipts. Explore financial events with explicit dates and clear definitions.

03

Understand the change.

Compare cohorts and employment observations with visible coverage. Know what is reported, and what is still missing.

A tailor working at a sewing machine, with garments hanging in his Dar es Salaam workshop.
Fashion & designDar es Salaam, Tanzania · Photo by Ali Mkumbwa / Unsplash
A filmmaker holding a camera on a handheld gimbal outdoors in Imo State, Nigeria.
Film & storytellingImo State, Nigeria · Photo by Emmanuel Ikwuegbu / Unsplash
A music producer using keyboards and a laptop during a recording session in Accra, Ghana.
Music & soundAccra, Ghana · Photo by Ayotunde Agbede / Unsplash

Temporary development photography from Unsplash. Subjects are not presented as EWG participants or platform beneficiaries; photographs are unrelated to the synthetic portfolio data.

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Built for shared understanding

Different perspectives.
One clearer view.

Programme teams

A shared view of ventures, cohorts and the progress you can actually observe.

Investors

Portfolio context and a clearer distinction between committed and received capital.

Ecosystem organisations

A common language for understanding the programmes and ventures you support.

Researchers

Explicit definitions, coverage indicators and exportable observations to inform further enquiry.

An initial use case

A platform with a wider horizon.

Creative Economy Intelligence is an independent platform developed by Ridtech Labs. Entertainment Week Ghana’s Deal Room is an initial example of the programme context it can support.

From a deal room
to a connected portfolio.

Bring structure to how ventures, capital and employment observations are understood across a programme. The demonstration uses invented cohorts and ventures, not EWG participant records.

An illustrative application for creative-industry programmes. All demonstration records are fictional and do not represent actual EWG participants or outcomes.

A perspective worth exploring

See what a clearer picture
can make possible.

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