Shift into higher gear with the Scale-Up Program
A Walloon support for SMEs with growth potential!
A support to reach your potential!
To help you reach your company's full potential in sales and hiring, while avoiding the most common traps of a rapid growth phase. By joining the program, you will have access to experienced individuals and tools for a duration of 2 years. Their objective? Lift the existing barriers to your growth and help structure your development. The program is 100% adaptable to your needs. It is based on a long-term support by a Scale-Up advisor, leveraging ad hoc services that you can activate on demand, according to your priority needs and challenges!
Is innovative and has moved beyond the startup stage
Markets a product with well-established sales in a market
Has a turnover of at least €1 million (with a maximum of €10M) or a team of at least 10 people (employees or independent contractors)
Shows a 10% turnover growth in the past year
Demonstrates significant growth potential with a multiplier effect on revenue and/or employment throughout the program duration. It has a business model that enables control of expenses during the development phase
Has an operational headquarters located in Wallonia or plans to establish one there
CEO and/or Founder
A passionate and ambitious entrepreneur
Committed to local business anchoring while having a strong international focus
Mindful of societal impacts and the positive effects of your company on the Region...
The Scale-Up Advisor
To establish a personalized action plan and track it During 24 months you will be accompanied by a Scale-Up Advisor. Together with you, the Advisor will conduct a diagnosis of your company and establish an action plan which will be framework for your long-term support. In practice, your support will amount to 25 work days, and you will determine together your meeting schedule.
To build an essential management function!
Your company is growing and structuring itself: it is becoming necessary to delegate responsibilities so as to focus on your role as a leader. To achieve this, you will have the opportunity to call in an Interim Manager for a duration of maximum 9 months. Their mission? Build a management function within the company, occupying it as an internal member of the company and formalizing the processes to ensure the sustainability of the function. The manager's scope of intervention may include human resources, financial management, quality control, business management,
... according to the focus areas defined with your Scale-Up Advisor.
To improve your governance
When growing, it is crucial to organize an active governance. Specifically, it means integrating new profiles in the Board of Directors that complement those of the shareholders: professionals who have contributed to successful businesses of the sector, with an extensive network of contacts
... As part of the Scale-Up Program, you can call upon an independent director for 3 years to enrich your Board of Directors and improve your governance!
to exchange with a seasoned entrepreneur with total confidence
Benefit from an outside view and the experience of a seasoned entrepreneur, this is the principle of entrepreneurial mentoring.
You will have the opportunity to connect with a mentor so as to exchange with complete confidence and be challenged by someone who has encountered the same challenges as you.
The established pairs will meet over an estimated period of 18 months.
for specialized support
Specific projects need to be launched as part of your development? Rethinking production and digitization processes, reassessing waste management, establishing a plan to target new markets (international, public, ...)?
Depending on the need, your Scale-Up Advisor will direct you to 3 thematic experts whose mission will be defined in the action plan.
In practice
Support from the Scale-Up Advisor represents the foundation of the program
One or more services "à la carte" can be activated simultaneously (within the spending limit allocated per company in the program)
Company participation in the Scale-Up program amounts to €3,000 excluding VAT, which will be invoiced upon completion of the diagnostic assessment
The amounts of aids corresponding to services activated by the company will be considered as de minimis aid
Upon receipt of your application, an operating charter describing the commitments of both parties will be signed
The program begins with the Scale-Up Advisor conducting a general assessment of the candidate company and identifying growth barriers. An action plan will then be established accordingly. Based on these elements, a Selection Committee composed of independent experts will validate your application and approve the action plan
The maximum duration of support by the Scale-Up Advisor is two years
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