Capital & Investors

Structure as a privately-funded and -operated business support startup.

Alternatively, this could be tasked for the proposed (non-profit) African ScaleUp Institute (see solution 13), with income earned used to fund the institute’s ongoing ecosystem support work.

Our view is that the platform should be market-led (and -designed), linked to a scaling database, with government(s) only providing financial support, rather than operational execution.

The proposed ScaleUp Institute is a potential home for this intervention.

Such an intervention should be funded by Government(s) or multilateral organisations, like AfDB.

As a parallel process, work also with impact investors to design a syndicated investment platform for investing in scale-ups in high impact verticals, such as climate or agritech.

Diagnose, roadmap and operationalise practical recommendations to be actioned by the investor community.

Construct a representative task and finish force to champion the initiative.