Matsi Modise

Matsi Modise is a Leader, International Keynote Speaker, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship activist and the Managing Director of SiMODiSA, an industry association whose mission is to accelerate entrepreneurship by collaborating with policy makers to enhance the success rate of high impact, high growth entrepreneurs in South Africa.

She is the founder of Furaha Afrika Holdings, a Pan African enterprise development advisory and investment firm.

Her experience ranges from Investment Banking at Investec Bank Ltd, and Enterprise Development advisory with South African banks, institutions of higher learning and corporate entities.

Matsi Modise | Leadership Entrepreneur

Leader, International Keynote Speaker, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship activist

Matsi Modise as an entrepreneur:

• MD of SiMODiSA, an industry association that catalyses and amplifies high growth, high impact entrepreneurship, by providing access to markets, access to social capital and advocating for the growth of the Venture Capital industry and creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem.

• • Co-founder of Venture Central Portal, South Africa’s digital home for entrepreneurs, a portal that aggregates information, opportunities, access to markets, access to funding, and access to resources and tools, to guide entrepreneurs from idea to scale.

• • MD of the South African Black Entrepreneurs Forum (SABEF), industry association that created entrepreneurship ecosystems in South African townships, rural and peri-urban areas

Matsi Modise as a contributor to entrepreneurship and innovation policy

• Led advocacy teams, that have impacted the South African policy landscape by driving traction in the Sec 12J tax incentive for Venture Capital Companies (VCC) and also by getting the South African government to lift Intellectual Property (IP) exchange control and Loop structure hurdles

• • Appointed by the South African Minister of Science and Technology to be part of a review panel for the Intellectual Property (IP) Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act

• • A member of the South Africa Bureau of Standards (SABS), innovation management committee

Matsi Modise as a Board Member, Trustee and Board Advisor

• Board member of the Free State Land Use Advisory Board

• • Board of Advisor on the Agrie-Vie Private Equity Fund

• • Advisor on the Barclays Africa Shared Growth Advisory Council

• • Trustee on the MMI Masikhululise ESD Trust

• • Non-Executive Director of The Innovation Hub Management Company SOC-LTD, a subsidiary of the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA)

• • Trustee of Orange Corners, an incubation initiative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

• • Founding steering committee member of the National Mentorship Movement

• • Subcommittee member of the South African Venture Capital/ Private Equity Association (SAVCA)

• • A member of the Institute of Directors SA (IoDSA)

Matsi Modise as a global thought leader on entrepreneurship

• Written and have been featured in numerous local and international publications, including Forbes Africa, Small Business Connect, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Boston Review, Mail & Guardian, Succeed Magazine, Destiny Magazine, The New Age newspaper, Business Day and City Press.

• • Matsi is a weekly featured guest on Radio 2000 and SAfm as a business mentor

• • Matsi’s global awards, recognition and participation in the entrepreneurship development space

Matsi Modise was the Keynote Speaker at the Oxford Business Forum Africa 2018, hosted by the Oxford Saïd Business School in the United Kingdom

• A founding curator of the World Economic Forum, global shapers community

• • In 2016 was selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of the Top 50 Global Shapers to attend the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland and represented the country

• • Acknowledged by the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting of New Champions, in Tianjin China by Professor Klaus Schwab (founder of the WEF) for her contribution to entrepreneurship development in South

• • Named Top 30 African leaders in technology, business, art, science, politics, design and media by Quartz Africa.

• • Named one of the Top 100 Young Independent Disruptors by Independent Day Media

• • A mentor on the World Bank / VC4Africa XL Africa program

• • Participated in the World Bank Inaugural Innovation Summit in Singapore (2017)

• • Member of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN)

• • Participated at the G20 Youth Entrepreneurship Alliance in Berlin Germany 2017

• • Awarded the Coca –Cola Young Achiever of the year award at the Women In Leadership – Africa Summit 2013, alongside Nigerian female billionaire Folarunsho Alakija

• • In 2016, she was selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of the Top 50 Global Shapers to attend the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland and is now a member of the WEF Global network of experts.

Matsi Modise has won numerous other awards and global recognition and was named one of the Top 100 Young Independent Disruptors by Independent Day Media, and the Coca –Cola Young Achiever of the year award at the Women In Leadership – Africa Summit 2013.

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