We work where business models meet market realities. Directly with enterprises, inside the capital ecosystem and at the systems level, because lasting impact requires all three.
We help enterprises build stronger business models, create and access markets, and become ready for the capital and partnerships needed to grow.
Our capabilities
Business Model Innovation - We build commercially viable products, services and business models around real customer needs.
Market Creation & Go-to-Market - We work to understand customers, stimulate demand and develop effective routes to market.
Investment & Growth Readiness - We strengthen the business case, identify appropriate financing and prepare enterprises for investment and growth.
We work across
Venture building
Early stage enterprises
Growth stage enterprises
Mature enterprises
We sit inside the capital ecosystem not just on the enterprise side of it, working with those seeking capital and those deploying it.
Our work
For businesses - we prepare them to be genuinely investment-ready and connect them to the right capital.
For development organisations (INGOs, Nonprofits) - we turn ideas into fundable programmes, build resource mobilisation strategies and develop the proposals, partnerships and relationships needed to secure funding. See our approach
For funders and investors - we help assess and develop an investable pipeline as well as provide pre and post investment technical assistance.
Some barriers can't be solved at the enterprise level when the problem is a broken market. Innovating for systems change is critical to unlocking systemic barriers.
Our capabilities
Market systems development - We analyse markets and value chains to understand where constraints, incentives and opportunities sit, and work with market actors to address them.
Systems Innovation - we design and test new models and approaches that can address systemic constraints.
Policy & enabling environment - we work with relevant actors to generate evidence, test solutions and support changes in the enabling environment.
We leverage behavioural science and consumer insights to drive healthier food choices, we help private-sector actors develop products and business models that respond to that, we strengthen farmer organisations and their businesses, and support agribusinesses to reduce food loss through circular practices.
We work at the market-creation and productive-use end of the energy value chain, helping energy solutions reach more people, power productive businesses and deliver lasting value.
We support businesses in the waste management and circular economy sector, focusing on turning waste into value through innovative solutions. We aim to reduce organic waste, e-waste, plastic waste all the while regenerating nature.
We empower entrepreneurs across sectors with the capabilities and partnerships needed to innovate, scale, and access new market opportunities.
Gender & Diversity
Our solutions promote inclusive growth, ensuring that women, youth, persons with disabilities, refugees and other marginalised groups are meaningfully included in all aspects of our work. Including being the drivers of change.
Environmental Protection
Environmental sustainability is at the core of Lustre’s work. We prioritize green innovation and encourage businesses to minimize their ecological footprint.