ENTREPRENEURS
Co-entrepreneurship
Truvalu participates as hands-on co-entrepreneur in promising, inclusive agri-food entrepreneurs and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to accelerate them to scalable businesses and increase their value and impact.
Are you an emerging, existing agribusiness with...
Clear Market Orientation
Entrepreneurial Management
Growth Ambition
Operation and Marketing in Early Stage
Do you meet the following criteria?
Connected to high value food markets
Turnover of > € 100,000
Connectivity to the Value Chain
Connected to Local Communities
Sourcing from > 500
local producers
Viable business model with scaling opportunities
Fits with market opportunities, government and development policies
Realistic exit potential
Do you see Truvalu as your business partner and do you meet the criteria above?
We want to know more about you!
Application Process
Investment, Business Development Support and connections to new markets do not happen all at once. Our support follows a step-by-step process. Along the way we get to know each other better and learn what kind of support is most needed by enterprises.
1)
Assesment (1-2 months)
Fit with Truvalu Enterprise Profile, alignment of ambitions and vision
Identification of strategic opportunities, issues, and bottlenecks
2)
Pre-Investment (3-6 months)
Agreed business growth trajectory and implementation plan
Mutual commitment to achieve success
3)
Investment and Implementation (6 years)
participation in company’s board
tailor-made technical assistance
unique expertise to the business on operational, tactical and strategic level
capital investment
access to (international) markets
4)
Sustainable Business
5)
End of the support/exit
1) Assesment (1-2 months)
Fit with Truvalu Enterprise Profile, alignment of ambitions and vision
Identification of strategic opportunities, issues, and bottlenecks
2) Pre-Investment (3-6 months)
Agreed business growth trajectory and implementation plan
Mutual commitment to achieve success
3) Investment and Implementation (6 years)
participation in company’s board
tailor-made technical assistance
unique expertise to the business on operational, tactical and strategic level
capital investment
access to (international) markets