Our Offerings
INORGANIC GROWTH
We identify key market trends impacting your industry, identify viable growth opportunities, and make acquisitions or investments to deliver inorganic growth.
We structure a corporate Growth Office in your organisation, assist in charting your innovation and growth mandate, and run the end-to-end process to invest in and scale opportunities.
ORGANIC GROWTH
We serve an outsourced business development function, initiating a structured commercialisation programme that incrementally builds understanding across domains and deepens insight over time.
Through this programme, we determine suitable markets and customer segments, routes to market and commercialisation approaches for existing client ideas, offerings or ventures.
CORPORATE STRATEGY FORMULATION AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
We assist you with articulating your strategy and help you determine the top priorities for execution over a one, two, three or five year time horizon.
We assist with creating key action plans for driving your strategy forward in facilitated sessions.
SELECT STRATEGIC PROJECTS FOR CLIENTS
Sometimes, one simply needs a safe pair of hands to execute on the priorities that are core to business success.
Our consultants have experience in a wide array of industries and client problems. Reach out to us with your specific needs and we will assess if we are suited for the task.
Our Approach
We combine strategy and innovation theory with practical experience as ex-top tier global consultants and entrepreneurs to solve client problems and assist them with their growth journeys.
Blackslope is a principle led organisation:
principle 1
We are focused on getting stuff done for our clients. We take a practical approach and get to outcomes.
Success isn’t defined by the thump of the presentation. It is defined by momentum in the organisation, investment flows and movement on the bottomline.
principle 2
In our growth programmes, we play an end-to-end role in guiding the corporate growth journey.
We assist clients in defining their ambitions, setting up appropriate governance structures, running programmes and seeing opportunities through to execution.
principle 3
We are ecosystem builders and relationship nurturers. We connect organisations with cutting-edge industry leaders, and then negotiate on their behalf driving investments and strategic partnerships.
We play a “tinder for business” role – and ensure that you get the perfect match.
We are focused on getting stuff done for our clients. We take a practical approach and get to outcomes.
Success isn’t defined by the thump of the presentation. It is defined by momentum in the organisation, investment flows and movement on the bottomline.
In our growth programmes, we play an end-to-end role in guiding the corporate growth journey.
We assist clients in defining their ambitions, setting up appropriate governance structures, running programmes and seeing opportunities through to execution.
We are ecosystem builders and relationship nurturers. We connect organisations with cutting-edge industry leaders, and then negotiate on their behalf driving investments and strategic partnerships.
We play a “tinder for business” role – and ensure that you get the perfect match.
The Innovation Funnel
In our growth
programmes, we play
an end-to-end role.
We assist clients in defining
their ambitions, setting up
appropriate governance
structures, running the
programmes and seeing
opportunities through to execution.
We screen the viability of client
growth opportunities via the innovation
funnel, which provides the framework
for our growth programmes.
Before continuing to the next phase
of the innovation funnel, we’ll co-evaluate
ideas, value propositions and business
cases with our client’s team to prioritise
the most promising opportunities for
further investigation.
We are ecosystem builders and relationship
nurturers – we initiate relationships, negotiate
on your behalf and drive investments and
strategic partnerships forward.
The Innovation Funnel
In our growth programmes, we play an end-to-end role. We assist clients in defining their ambitions, setting up appropriate governance structures, running the programmes and seeing opportunities through to execution.
We screen the viability of client growth opportunities via the innovation funnel, which provides the framework for our growth programmes. Before continuing to the next phase of the innovation funnel, we’ll co-evaluate ideas, value propositions and business cases with our client’s team to prioritise the most promising opportunities for further investigation.
We are ecosystem builders and relationship nurturers – we initiate relationships, negotiate on your behalf and drive investments and strategic partnerships forward.
Showcase
SELECT INVESTMENTS THAT WE HAVE FACILITATED
We’ve facilitated corporate investment in a DIGITAL AGRICULTURAL MARKETPLACE PLATFORM
Blackslope supported an agricultural client with identifying and investing in a disruptive South African AgriTech start-up. The investment represents a fundamental shift into the digital realm, where they’ve had a minimal presence to date. The platform connects smallholder and commercial farmers to key offtake markets and clients, allowing both farmers and buyers grow their business in the agriculture supply chain. The marketplace is a one-stop-shop with more than 86 suppliers and 2000 products, with more than 130 depots and 190 crop advisors registered on the platform nationwide.
We’ve facilitated corporate investment in Israeli precision agriculture technology
Blackslope supported an agricultural client looking to make a strategic play in sustainable agriculture to invest in an Israeli precision farming start-up. The entity’s first-to-market cloud-based algorithms provide smart irrigation decisions based on data from the soil, climate and plant sensors for an autonomous irrigation solution. Their Growth-Based Irrigation (GBI) systems are installed in 14 of the world’s largest agricultural markets. GBI plots have shown a 30% reduction in water use and up to 10-20% increase in yields.
We’ve facilitated corporate investment in a globally leading chemical upcycling business
Blackslope supported a corporate client looking to make a strategic play in sustainability and the circular economy to invest in a Luxembourg-based green chemicals business. The entity’s chemical upcycling technology ends the life of plastics by transforming the majority of plastic waste types found globally into high-value, industrial products namely green solvents, oils and waxes.We've facilitated corporate investment in a disruptive green chemicals business
Blackslope supported a corporate client looking to take the first step towards transitioning to zero-carbon chemical alternatives by identifying and facilitating investment in a Californian bio-plastics start-up. The entity is considered the world's leading carbon negative materials company. The company’s technology turns the carbon found in biomass into useful materials, essentially eliminating the need for chemicals produced via dirty fossil fuel pathways. Our client and the entity has engaged in joint development programmes to create low-carbon and carbon negative materials for use as raw materials in several of our client’s applications.
Our Industries
We’ve assessed more than 200 corporate opportunities across a range of industries, resulting in multi-million dollar deals.
