Scale Up Consulting

Scale Up Consulting is a South African business advisory, training, and development firm dedicated to accelerating growth, unlocking potential, and creating sustainable impact for individuals, entrepreneurs, organisations, and communities. Through innovative learning solutions, strategic consulting, and capacity-building programmes, Scale Up Consulting empowers people with the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to thrive in an evolving economy.

At the heart of our digital empowerment strategy is MyFuture, a mobile-first career, entrepreneurship, and personal development platform designed

Liquee Professional Services

1. Strengthen and Clarify the Business Overview

Core Business Offering

Liquee Professional Services is a Johannesburg-based hybrid retail and services business offering retail and wholesale supply, printing services, and IT consultancy and advisory services.

Our current retail and supply offering focuses on everyday consumer products, including Premium 2 Ply Toilet Paper. We also provide basic printing services using our existing small printer, currently producing flyers and documents in black and white. In addition, Liquee Professional Services provides practical IT consultancy and advisory

SOLVE@Waterfront – Circular Innovation Challenge 2026

Overview of your opportunity

The Circular Innovation Challenge 2026 is seeking innovative businesses in Southern Africa with solutions that are beyond the ideation stage and ready to move into testing, implementation or scaling.

The challenge is focused on circular solutions that:

  • Reduce waste.
  • Keep materials in use.
  • Regenerate nature.
  • Create social and economic value.
  • Support jobs and wellbeing.

Solutions are expected to contribute to a transition from a linear to a circular economy.

WHO CAN APPLY?

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MENA Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme

Overview of your opportunity

The MENA Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme is designed to empower and upskill scientists, researchers and students working on agricultural challenges relevant to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

The programme is aimed at researchers and innovators who have developed research-, science- or nature-based solutions and want to take their work toward proof of concept, while gaining the business and entrepreneurial capabilities needed to commercialise, scale and secure future funding.

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Expression of Interest – Personal Shoppers Training and Support Programme

Overview of your opportunity

Takealot Group is inviting suitably qualified organisations to express interest in providing entrepreneurship-focused training and support to participants in its Personal Shoppers Programme.

Personal Shoppers are described as community-based micro-entrepreneurs who help customers access e-commerce by:

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Water4All 2026 Joint Transnational Call – “Sustainable Water Management”

Overview of your opportunity

Type of Funding Available

Grant funding

Funding is provided by the participating Funding Partner Organisations (FPOs) according to their respective national or regional funding rules. There is therefore no single universal grant amount per applicant.

Programme

Water4All European Partnership

Pillar

Pillar B – Research and Innovation Development

Total Call Budget

Approximately €34.22 million

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Entrepreneurs for Resilience 2027 – Scaling Affordable, Quality Healthcare for Underserved Communities

Overview of your opportunity

The Entrepreneurs for Resilience (E4R) 2027 programme is the 10th edition of the Swiss Re Foundation's programme supporting entrepreneurial solutions that strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities.

This edition focuses specifically on scaling access to affordable, quality primary healthcare for underserved populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

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Gondwana Consulting Services(Pty) Ltd

Gondwana Consulting Services (Pty) Ltd (GCS) is a South African business based in Thabazimbi, providing integrated risk management, workforce management, ICT, cybersecurity, security automation and project consulting services. We help organisations improve operational visibility, strengthen governance and automate manual processes.

Through our technology division, GCS Tech, we are developing BioTrack, an integrated workforce, access and security intelligence platform. BioTrack is intended to connect employee records, access-control systems, camera events, time and attendance, and HR and payroll

Scaling Circular Solutions – PREVENT Innovation Programme

Overview of your opportunity

The Scaling Circular Solutions Programme is designed for growth-stage circular economy businesses and organisations that have moved beyond the idea or early-development phase and are ready to expand their solutions and impact.

The programme is intended to help participants address practical growth barriers, strengthen their business model, improve investment readiness, build new partnerships and accelerate their scaling journey.

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Challenge Programme 2027 – Advancing Next Generation AMR Diagnostics for Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

Overview of your opportunity

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2027 is seeking leading researchers to form interdisciplinary research consortia capable of addressing a major global health challenge: the development of next-generation antimicrobial resistance (AMR) diagnostics for lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs).

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