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Growth Gateway

Supported e-waste innovator to unlock funding and scale operations

2025

About the company

  • EWaste Africa operates Africa’s first lightbulb recycling plant, expanding into recycling and refurbishing solar PV panels and electronic waste management
  • Operates internationally certified facilities in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, and Cape Town; potential new PV module triage facility in Upington
  • Delivers one-stop, legally compliant electronics recycling solutions to major corporates, municipalities, and independent power producers (IPPs)

Their challenges

  • Needed to align the investment narrative with community-focused criteria of a major solar IPP’s grant funding
  • Lacked a clearly defined value proposition for refurbished panels, Local Economic Development (LED) strategy, and local impact delivery
  • Required support to outline feedstock waste streams market size potential and articulate long-term scalability of operations to funders

[Gateway] has expertly refined our pitch materials, enhancing our confidence in securing funding. I cannot express enough how grateful I am for all the work [Gateway] has done for us

Pravashen Naidoo​

Founder, EWaste Africa

Helped debottleneck ~£830k in grant funding for geographical expansion

Support Provided1

  • Refined the pitch deck to highlight the impact, scalability, and investment readiness to unblock ongoing funding discussions
  • Developed a strong local economic development (LED) narrative aligned with the funder’s community upliftment priorities
  • Built a high-level execution plan and financial projections to ensure full alignment with grant funding requirements

Impact generated

  • Launched a ~£830k funding round to establish a PV triage and repair facility in Upington
  • Planned creation of 40+ direct and 100+ indirect jobs by 2030, including roles for youth and people living with disabilities (PLWD)
  • Avoided~7k tons CO₂ and 3k tons wastedivertedfrom landfills by 2035

140+

Jobs created

>£11Mn

FTSI forecast by 2035

The presentation and the value [GG] has added to the pitch may be what closes this grant fund deal in its entirety

Pravashen Naidoo​

Founder, EWaste Africa

  1. ​Note: EWaste Africa was supported through Growth Gateway’s South Africa SMME Accelerator program ↩︎

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