South African | Passionate about empowering African Talent – through Edtech, Jobtech, Venture Capital, and Education Equity. *My media bio follows*"Luke Mostert is a former South African Venture Capitalist, now turned tech entrepreneur. He broke into the VC industry as a 22 year old at GreenHouse Capital in Lagos, Nigeria. Post GreenHouse, he joined the Investment Team at 4Di Capital in South Africa, where he learnt under some of the continent’s first venture capitalists. In late 2021, Luke ideated and co-founded Young African Catalysts – a first of its kind venture ecosystem connecting and empowering Africa’s top venture leaders.At the start of 2022, Luke joined eminent Pan-African Fund, Future Africa, as the Fund’s Head of Investments, where he led 14 new Fund II investments end-to-end, built out their investment processes, and further cultivated their global co-investor community. In his second year with the Fund, he shifted to co-leading Accelerate Africa, a startup pre-accelerator the Fund launched in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development.After completing the first cohort of Accelerate Africa, Luke pivoted into entrepreneurship full-time, co-founding CatalyzU, an African talent-tech startup at the intersection of learning and job placement. A month after CatalyzU exited stealth, the nascent startup was accepted into Techstars Toronto as part of their 2023 batch.Luke also works in an advisory and mentorship capacity with various regional and global startup accelerators, such as Injini and Techstars Toronto. Moreover, he became a prolific speaker on African venture, serving on panels at the likes of Harvard Business School, Wharton Business School, and NYU Stern Business School. Outside of VC, Luke has a distinct passion for education equity, having founded the Litoro Foundation in 2015 – an educational nonprofit that continues to fully fund the high school educations of over 20 underprivileged scholars every year.He holds a BA in Political Science, with a focus in Economics and Entrepreneurship, from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where he graduated as one of ten distinguished graduates in his class."