Matsi Modise is an avid entrepreneur and entrepreneurship activist. She has immense experience in corporate governance and building companies from the bottom up. She is an international keynote speaker, sits on various boards and is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Shapers Community and the Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO).
Matsi joined the South African Black Entrepreneurs Forum (SABEF) where she was able to assist grass-roots entrepreneurs start their business journeys. She then joined SiMODiSA, an NPC focusing on policy reform in South Africa and advocating for progressive policies for high growth start-ups to grow and flourish. Through a desire to practice what she preached, Matsi is an entrepreneur in her own right as the founder of Furaha Afrika Holdings, a Pan-African organisation dedicated to enable and leverage growth across the African continent.
The success of Furaha has enabled Matsi to invest in technology businesses such as Finclusion, an African continental business that focuses on fintech. “So I suppose I’m a technology founder and a technology investor as it stands, and in my spare time, the little spare time that I have, I sit on (company) boards locally and internationally”, she says. This has increased her strengths in the field of governance.
Matsi spoke to ImpactSA from a boardroom in Copenhagen, in our Women in Leadership series with Vodacom, about leadership in the entrepreneurship space and the perceived glass ceiling.
