Scale your company.
Work with ScaleGate on the practical priorities blocking growth: positioning, customers, market entry, grants, investment readiness, product and technology.
We're backing companies from Africa to the world.
We connect bold founders to customers, markets, capital and infrastructure. From Africa into Europe, and from Europe into Africa.
Companies built, supported and operated by our team
- Batazia
- Pastificio Iris
- The Tech Platform
- Campo Digitale
- DeepLeaf
- 0Plastic
- Shamba Records
- PCS Agri
Start here
- I am growing a companyFounder supportStrategy, customers, market entry, grants, capital, product and technology.Continue
- I want to build in the NetherlandsDutch Startup VisaFacilitation for eligible founders inside an active 12-month ScaleGate engagement.Continue
- I want to join or support a programmePhilanthropic ChapterFree entrepreneurship programmes for selected young Nigerians, funded separately.Continue
Build a business that solves what matters.
Selected participants join free workshops, training and venture-building programmes to turn urgent local problems into sustainable businesses.
One mission. Separate models. Commercial engagements are privately scoped. Philanthropic programmes are free for selected participants and funded separately.
Start with what is blocking the company now.
ScaleGate can take responsibility for one defined need or support the work that follows.
Venture strategy
Market research, validation, business model, positioning and route to market.
Customers and business development
Customer discovery, outreach, sales pipeline, pilots and commercial partnerships.
Market entry
European entry strategy, local partners, soft landing and practical execution.
Grants and capital
Grant strategy, applications, financial model, data room and investment readiness.
Product and technology
Product definition, prototype, MVP, AI and software delivery, and technical coordination.
Brand and communication
Messaging, pitch and sales materials, website, launch assets and marketing foundations.
From Africa to the world. From Europe into Africa.
ScaleGate connects companies to the people, markets and execution capacity they need on both sides.
Scale beyond your home market.
We support African companies with strategy, customers, European market entry, grants, investment readiness, product, technology and international partnerships.
Enter Africa with a team on the ground.
We help European companies understand the Nigerian market, find customers and partners, prepare pilots and coordinate local execution through our office in Lagos.
A real presence in Lagos.
Our Lagos office gives African founders and European companies a local point of contact for market research, business development, partnerships, pilot coordination and execution in Nigeria.
Lagos, Nigeria
Building your company in the Netherlands?
Eligible non-EU founders can explore Dutch Startup Visa facilitation as part of an active 12-month ScaleGate company-building engagement. It is not a stand-alone visa application service.
Explore the Startup Visa programmeEligibility is assessed case by case. RVO and IND rules apply. IND makes the final decision.
Nigeria’s next entrepreneurs can solve Nigeria’s hardest problems.
Young Nigerians already have ideas, digital fluency and lived knowledge of the problems around them. The chapter helps selected participants test those ideas, build a practical business model and move towards a sustainable venture.
- Employment and income
- Food and agriculture
- Waste and pollution
- Water and energy
- Health
- Education and digital access
We stay close to the work.
Pitching at the finals of the LeapSprong accelerator 
A startup stand during GITEX Africa in Morocco 
A working conversation during a venture site visit 
ScaleGate team member at the European Innovation Council Summit
Where does your next step begin?
Build. Enter. Scale.