Early Stage to

Enterprise Development

Design-Led Business Growth for Accelerated Investment

Achieve rapid time-to-value using design-first methodologies that fast-track investment through rapid ideation, iteration, and innovation.

What We Do

Early Stage to Enterprise comprises the application of design-led thinking and methods to develop entrepreneurial capabilities for various market stakeholders ​(incl. future potential participants).​

How We Do It

By investing in our services, clients and stakeholders gain:

  • Growth: A solution for accelerated growth by supporting rapid development of business opportunities, products, or services.
  • Impact: A strong link between society-centric impacts and associated society-ready offerings (products, platforms, services).
  • Readiness: A programme of action to achieve investment readiness and secure investment.
  • De-risking: A process to de-risk investment through ideation, innovation, validation, and research.
  • Connectivity: An ecosystem of entrepreneurs, investors, and business professionals for ongoing operational or strategic support.

Why Us

Vision​

We are passionate about our impact-driven mission: good before profit

Coverage

End-to-end support spanning a broad range of competencies

Experience

We’re a multifaceted team which ensures robust solutions​

Expertise

Offering connectivity to industry-specific domain specialists

Diversity

Our diverse teams offer varied perspectives to support growth strategies​

Our Unique Sprints

Concept Sprint​

Identification of the problem with associated concept, addressable market, and market segmentation

Business Sprint

Review of existing business model and expansion to new business models, partnerships, and revenue generation options

Sustainability Sprint​

Ideating and developing a set of initiatives to drive societal impact and ensure sustainable business practices​

Brand Sprint​

Ideating and aligning to a brand archetype with development of unique brand persona and associated corporate identity​

Commercial Sprint​

Analysing proposed products/services against customer desirability, commercial viability, and technological feasibility​

Product Sprint​

Analysing, ideating, prototyping, and testing of new features of existing or new product development​

Tech Sprint

Developing user stories and back log from product features to enable cost estimation and a product roadmap for investment

Additional Products & Services

Smart-Ups​

Focus on embedding entrepreneurship skills in the education sector in partnership with civil society, government, and donor funders.​

Fix-Ups​

Focus on business resilience in partnership with enterprise-level/sector-specific sponsors for clients (seed to SMME)​.​

Start-Ups​

Focus on establishing market and investor readiness for early-stage companies​.​

Growth-Ups​

Focus on driving growth in enterprise-level organisations by developing/enhancing new or existing products and services.​s for clients (seed to SMME)​.​

Scale-Ups​

Focus on driving growth strategies with established (post-funded) start-ups​.​

Green-Ups​

Focus on driving sustainability and society-centric outcomes at clients (seed to enterprise-level)​.​

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