Meet our Top 50 Thriving Female Founder for 2019 Edition
FOUNDER & CEO OF FURAHA AFRIKA HOLDINGS a company with subsidiaries including Furaha Solutions (a joint venture partnership with Work Force, a listed AltXJSE company), Furaha Enterprise Development and Furaha Advisory. www.furaha.co.za
CO-FOUNDED EMERGE BUSINESS CONSULTANTS that provided services that include Supplier Development, Enterprise Development strategy formulation and implementation, BBBEE advisory and verification, Small Medium Enterprise education and capacity training.
MATSI AS AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEM BUILDER
• CO-FOUNDER OF SIMODISA DIGITAL 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.
• VICE-CHAIRPERSON 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.
• FORMER MD OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN BLACK ENTREPRENEURS FORUM (SABEF), industry association that created entrepreneurship ecosystems in South African townships, rural and peri-urban areas
• 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 AS A BOARD MEMBER, TRUSTEE AND BOARD ADVISOR
• Board member of the Gauteng Gambling Board (GGB)
• Board member of the Free State Land Use Advisory Board
• Board of Advisor on the Agrie-Vie Private Equity Fund
• 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)
• Former Advisor on the Barclays Africa Shared Growth
Advisory Council MATSI AS A GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADER ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP
• Written for and has 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 and recently Venture Burn.
• Matsi is a weekly featured guest on Radio 2000 and formerly SAfm as a business mentor