Ascent tailors a strategic methodology to your individual challenges. Supported by a high-impact community of founders, investors, and advisors from around the world, you and your executive team will overcome challenges and maximize opportunities for exponential growth.
Ascent is an elite program, open to limited cohorts of engaged and highly motivated East African business leaders who are ready to double their business in the next 2-4 years. Over the course of 9 months, you and your team will engage in a series of high impact workshops, and individual time with successful advisors to advance your business model and team culture. You’ll also have time with other CEOs participating in the program in a peer-to-peer setting.
Ascent Distinctives
Unique strengths of Ascent that set us apart include:
- Structured, team-based approach where we work directly with you and your leadership team on your growth challenges and opportunities, using lean scaling business modeling.
- Distinctively experienced advisory team that includes growing businesses ranging from $5M-$200M, working with leading companies on growth strategies and advancing founder engagement with investors.
- High quality mentors with track records of building businesses and a passion for coming alongside founders to help them advance and grow personally as well as in business.
- Accelerated progression in becoming investment ready, identifying and addressing hurdles to raising capital. Access to different investment platforms is also provided as appropriate.
- Peer-to-peer learning and support with no more than six business teams per cohort, interaction designed to sharpen ideas and provide constructive feedback loops.
- Relational in approach. Building a thriving business is a journey and Sinapis is committed to accompanying you each step of the way.
Core focuses of Ascent programming:
- Evaluation of core value propositions, competitive advantages, and customer journeys that will help your marketing and sales efforts be more targeted and effective.
- Identifying the changes needed in your business operations to support exponential growth and building plans to address them.
- Take a deep look at your organizational culture and develop a plan that strengthens your team and fosters a growth mindset company wide.
- Map out the additional resources required to achieve the next stage growth and understand when they’ll be needed.
- Gain clarity of the gaps in your investment readiness plan that will be required to access the capital you need to grow and be ready by the end of the program to go after funding confidently.
- An increased awareness and conviction about how your personal faith can develop in concert with your business growth to impact your community socially, economically, and spiritually.
Successful applicants meet the following criteria:
- CEOs/Founders + 1-4 executives
- Growth-stage businesses
- Proven business models
- Demonstrated market potential
- Annual revenues of $100K+
- More than five employees
- Ready to double growth in 2-4 years
- Kingdom business priorities
