Keshni Morar

Jozi Angels

The Jozi Angel Network is a prominent and dynamic investment group based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It serves as a vital bridge between promising startups and enthusiastic angel investors, fostering growth and innovation within the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. This network offers a platform for budding entrepreneurs to showcase their innovative ideas and business models, seeking financial support, mentorship, and strategic guidance.

Investment Committee Member

Founder Institute

Founder Institute is the world's premier idea-stage accelerator and start-up launch programme. We provide early-stage and aspiring entrepreneurs with the structure, training, mentor feedback, global network, and lifetime of support needed to start an enduring company. Many leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used our program to transition from employee to entrepreneur, test their startup ideas, build a team, get their first customers, raise funding, and more. The current portfolio has an estimated $20 Billion in funds, 80% graduate survival rate (after 5 years) and 3500+ companies launched. Responsible for the operations of the South African chapter.

Managing Director South Africa

Investable

We specialise in crafting dynamic programs for early-stage entrepreneurs, visionary investors, and vital support organizations. Let's embark on a journey to amplify your influence and catalyze prosperity across Sub-Saharan Africa. 🌍

Founder & Managing Director

Cure8Health

Provide advice on deal structuring, investments, operations and commercialisation of the cloud based medical practice management software backed by a AI-driven-workflow engine capabilities.

Strategic Investment Advisor

Styld

Conceptualized and developed a cutting-edge B2B retail SaaS platform, enabling retailers to enhance their operations and customer experience.

Vodacom

Comprehensive, integrated strategy development from deal structuring to advising business leaders on cost efficiency initiatives & developing growth plans for business units through mergers and acquisition. Won CEO team award for various M&A deals, as well as the development of the Group Strategy in FY2014/15 and again in FY2017/18 for the listing of Vodacom Tanzania on the Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange and the acquisition of Safaricom in Kenya.

Principal: Group Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions

Led implementation of >200 integration projects with budgets from R50K to R60M with requirements across telco value chain. Directed team of 10 Business Analysts & 4 Project Managers.  20 indirect reports of Developers & Systems Testers.

Portfolio Manager : Strategy, Architecture and Planning 

Morse Consulting

Led targeted change programmes from cost savings to business integration management for clients including: Liberty Life, Stanlib, Melville Douglas, ABSA Asset Management & Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA). Reported to C-level.

Senior Management Consultant

Accenture

Provided advisory on software and technical consulting services to multinational companies in the Financial Services sector.

Consultant

NamITech

Analyzed operations for one of the country’s leading firms in manufacturing credit cards & mobile sim cards for largest banks & Telco players across African continent. Shortly after joining, identified as candidate for Fast-track Management Development Programme.

Oracle Business Analyst

Network Leadership

Supported direct marketing & selling & operations ensuring up-to-date accounts & accurate month-end reporting to Exco.

Assistant Accountant

Speaker | Venture Builder | Angel Investor | Fractional Strategy Officer

Business development, mergers and acquisitions, and transformation are some of my strengths as a seasoned executive of multinational growth companies and technology start-ups. With cross-functional teams of up to 50, I have implemented over 200 integration projects with budgets ranging from US$5k to US$6 million. I have managed and transacted with businesses in the telecommunications and information technology sector, including acquisition, divestiture, IPO, restructuring, and joint ventures with a value exceeding US$4.5 billion on the African continent. 

Following my corporate career, I immersed myself into the startup ecosystem from Africa to America, founding 4 businesses, running a global startup accelerator (Founder Institute South Africa), and investing in several small businesses and startups. I mentor startups through Founder Institute, Hult Prize Foundation, The Mentorship Boardroom, The Jack Ma Foundation, and The Venture Mentoring Team. I mentor and advise founders through the fundraising process and am a DD partner to Angels and VCs.  

If you're a founder wanting to learn how to raise funding from investors, please apply here - 
https://forms.gle/GkxZUdhQoPPAChFr7

If you're an Angel looking for investment opportunities, DM me.

Focused on Founders who are looking to raise angel to series A funding to scale their businesses. In addition to our advisory services, Founders can participate in a 3-month  programme which includes how to improve pitch materials, generate investor interest, create an investor pipeline, startup valuations, due diligence preparation, negotiation of terms and more.

To apply, please submit your details via - https://www.f6s.com/investable-funding-fix-program/apply

Allan Gray Orbis Foundation

Association Ventures Manager

GrindstoneXL

Leading the GrindstoneX all-women accelerator programme, in partnership with Naspers Labs as well as the first Green Economy programme, in partnership with Anglo American Foundation. The start-ups participating in the Grindstone accelerator programmes take part in a structured entrepreneurship development programme which assists innovation-driven companies in engineering exponential growth. The programme provides access to expert knowledge, networks, funding and markets to the start-ups as drivers of their success.

Programme Director

Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)

Project lead: Township Economies in South Africa Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Snapshot
Project lead: Durban Innovation Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Snapshot
Convening and facilitating the Ecosystem Impact Measurement and Management learning Labs, focusing on topics such as gender metrics, youth employment and entrepreneurship, the creative economy, adjusting your Theory of Change in the new normal and many others.
The South Africa chapter lead for Ecosystem Research and Knowledge briefs.
Account management of regional members.

Programme Associate: South Africa 

Greatmore Studios

An NGO which was the first to introduce the artist studio, artist led, artistic process and practice in South Africa. Greatmore Studios been around for over 32 years. This role includes providing guidance to the Director and other decision making as the need arises, through being co-opted to Greatmore Studios and the Thupelo Trust.

Board Trustee

Centre of Excellence in Financial Services

A research hub funded by the Banking Assocation of South Africa. At the Centre of Excellence, I managed the content of a number of projects ranging from projects around the 4th Industrial Revolution, the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report Survey, the harmonisation of financial markets legal interpretations in the SADC region and surveys on sentiments behind credit in banking. 

I had the opportunity to manage the Centre of Excellence in Financial Services website, administer data collection, collate research reports and working papers and engage stakeholders on ongoing projects.

Research Administrator (Seconded by BASA)

The Banking Association South Africa

I completed a year internship with the Banking Association, whilst pursuing my MCom (Economics part-time). In that year I received a great amount of exposure to the broader and important functions of the banking industry, through interactions and collaboration with the SARB and banking experts in different fields. 

I gained experience in project management, data collection and analysis, research, team collaboration on issues dealt with by the Prudential division (e.g. Liquidity risk and the draft financial sector levies bill). I also contributed to the initial establishment and progression of projects at the Centre of Excellence in Financial Services.

Prudential Division: Intern

Genesis Analytics

Working with the Applied Behavioural Economics division, I supported the team on running projects.  I assisted with their Customer Relations Management database, presentation preparation, creative sales brainstorming as well as any support on Excel formatted data required.

Behavioural Economics: Intern

Rhodes University

Economics department International Trade and Public Finance tutor for third year Economics students.

International Trade and Public Finance Tutor 

Linguistics department Professional Communications tutor for BCom and Accounting second year students.

Professional Communications Tutor

Nonceba is the Association Ventures Manager at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, where she works with the Capital and Ventures portfolios for Fellows. Prior to this, she was a Programme Director at Grindstone, managing their first all-women accelerator, GrindstoneX, a programme in partnership with Naspers Labs, as well as the first Green Economy programme, in partnership with Anglo American Foundation. In her roles in entrepreneurship support organisation, Nonceba has worked with tech and tech enabled entrepreneurs, implementing high growth support programmes in their scaling. With experience, she has led multiple projects within the global Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) network, where she championed research and was the South African Ecosystem Snapshot project lead. Nonceba developed the landscape mapping studies and directories, namely the "Township Economies in South Africa Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Snapshot" (2021) and the "Durban Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Snapshot: with a focus on innovation" (2019) resources, where she leveraged her network to identify the high touch points of entrepreneurship support. Both are an online resource tools that help entrepreneurs identify organisations supporting various stages of development through financial and non-financial support mechanisms, useful for connecting entrepreneurs to support structures they need.

Nonceba has a deep passion for strengthening inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem environments, with a keen interest in collaborative support mechanisms, particularly in cultivating township economies, addressing the gender gap and creating platforms for access to knowledge and networks.

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