Venture building, incubation, and commercialisation

What it covers

Incubation and venture-building support
Innovation-to-market linkages
Commercialisation pathways and go-to-market design
Investor readiness and capital raising support
Business model design and unit economics

Typical engagements

We build the commercialisation pathway for a technology or service that works technically but has no route to market.
We prepare enterprises for investment: business model, financials, governance, and the evidence investors ask for.
We design and run incubation support for portfolios of early-stage ventures inside programmes and institutions.
We structure partnerships between innovators and the institutions that would distribute or procure what they build.

Sectors

Where it sits in the arc

This pillar is concentrated in Build and Deliver, with Prove used to establish the traction evidence investors require.

Think
Shape
Build
Deliver
Prove

Related experience

Engagements in this pillar

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Ministry of Industry

Strengthening project delivery capacity for industrial transformation

Designed and delivered a capacity-building programme to sharpen the Ministry's project planning, execution, monitoring, and governance practices, strengthening its ability to deliver strategic industrial development initiatives.

Pillars this draws on

MRC-ET

Organisational diagnostics, valuation, and growth strategy

Advised one of Ethiopia's pioneering molecular diagnostics companies through an organisational diagnostic, enterprise valuation, and growth strategy, sharpening performance and positioning the business for long-term, investable growth.

Pillars this draws on

BGI

Pharmaceutical industry diagnostics and sector strategy

Diagnosed the structural constraints and growth opportunities across Ethiopia's pharmaceutical sector and shaped recommendations to strengthen local manufacturing, competitiveness, and resilience.

Pillars this draws on

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