Musa is an intelligent funding navigator transforming the financing journey for high-growth, tech-enabled SMBs in frontier markets—the fastest-growing regions in the world, where a staggering 63% of businesses are underfunded. Powered by AI-driven insights, Musa offers tools like 409a assessments, incorporation support, and funding readiness, while guiding ventures through tailored pathways to debt, equity, and alternative financing. Backed by JPMorgan and Techstars, Musa unlocks untapped capital and drives equitable growth for the missing middle.A truly scalable and impact-driven platform, Musa is founded by a powerhouse mother-daughter duo with decades of experience in entrepreneur development, strategy, and investment (UNDP, World Bank, BCG).

The Black Excellence Fund is a $30m venture capital fund investing in Indigenous businesses. Our investment sectors are Renewable Energy/Eco-Initiatives, Defence Tech/Cyber Security, Biotech/Life Sciences, Health/Wellness and Infrastructure.

Zambezi Ventures is a funding focused strategic advisory firm for impactful business. We are looking to drive equity in investment, and have a eco-systemic perspective to helping African ventures find funding for growth.

I head up carsales Early Stage Investment (ESI), the CVC arm of one of the largest vehicle marketplace business in the world (carsales ltd - ASX:CAR) and the first mobility focused investment program in Australia. This new area of the business allows us to invest and scale early stage venture, and create a pipeline of transformative ideas to help drive innovation. We’ve spent the past 25 years setting the pace for innovation in our sector, and we are now working with partners across the start-up ecosystem, to help Pre-seed to Series A businesses grow.We are actively investing in early-stage companies to shape the mobility and digital retailing ecosystem. As strategic investors we look for pre-seed and Series A companies with innovative technology and or business model, and exceptional founding teams. We are also keen to strengthen the Australian and global mobility investment ecosystem, and are eager to co-invest with accelerators and other VCs.The carsales network extends across the United States, South Korea and Latin America, employing more than 2,000 people, developing world class technology and advertising solutions that drive its businesses. In the US, Trader Interactive is a leading integrated platform of non-automotive marketplaces across the RV, powersports, truck and equipment industries. Encar.com in Korea is the leading automotive digital marketplace and carsales’ Latin American businesses are the leading automotive digital marketplaces in Brazil (webmotors), Chile and Mexico.

Worked in the venture architecture team at BCG Digital Ventures, the corporate venturing and innovation consulting arm of Boston Consulting group - which invents, builds and invests in startups with leading global companies.During my time at DV, I worked in cross-functional teams to build and launch new ventures, and collaborated with the design and development team members to define a minimum viable business to build for some of Australia’s leading financial services and retail companies (ANZ, BPay, Scentre Group).

jovoto is an open innovation platform that helps brands and MNCs to solve complex problem using crowdstorming (brainstorm at internet scale). To date, jovoto has successfully organized more than 380 crowdstorms for global organizations such as Coca-Cola, Audi, and Greenpeace, reaching millions of people in the process.At jovoto I worked closely with the Head of Marketing and the Head of Business Development in order to streamline their respective business functions and get the organisation ready for their next funding round. I was also the Deutsche Bank Strategic Analyst and Lead, working on conceptualizing what the Future of Banking and Finance was and the role DB will play in it. In this role, I acted a strategic link on Future of Banking and Finance projects, and Deutsche Bank account, ensuring alignment between Jovotos strategic objectives, clients expectations and projects operational execution.