Mom-daughter duo Tandadzo (Tando) Matanda and Dr Margaret Matanda will step on stage founder at SXSW Sydney this Tuesday because the founders of fintech platform Musa.
Musa is the world’s first clever enterprise evaluation platform, tackling the funding course of for startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Musa Ventures equips founders with the digital instruments and insights essential for strategic improvement, then connects them with a community of potential debt and fairness funders.
Musa’s flagship instrument, the Clever Enterprise Well being Evaluation Platform, is sort of a Bloomberg terminal for SMB financiers and entrepreneurs, which creates a enterprise well being rating akin to a credit score rating, utilizing AI.
The pair will run a 90-minute workshop designed to get SMEs and startups funding-ready subsequent Tuesday, Oct 15, at 10am as a part of SXSW. Tando mentioned the specialists participating will assist information founders by means of making use of data-driven insights to construct more healthy, extra fundable companies. Extra particulars right here.
Tando, Musa’s CEO, has greater than a decade of expertise in advising, launching, and funding early-stage startups as an affect funding and company enterprise specialist after beginning her profession as a administration guide with Boston Consulting Group and earlier than Musa arrange and led Australia’s first auto-tech CVC for a world-leading auto digital market.
Her mom, Margaret, has spent greater than 30 years as a tutorial and improvement guide, constructing ventures in Africa, APAC and USA. She’s a Professor of technique, provide chain and branding on the College of Sydney, and helped set up a few of the first entrepreneurship improvement applications in sub-Saharan Africa.
“Our identify pays homage to our ancestry, and the golden age of Africa’s wealthy and vibrant historical past,” Tando defined.
“It speaks to a time when benevolent leaders like Mansa Musa of Mali harnessed their ample assets to empower individuals by means of commerce and scholarship.”
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Not too long ago, the startup has been accepted into JP Morgan’s US accelerator program, run by Techstars Washington D.C. whereas Tando was recognised because the Innovator of the 12 months on the Girls Main Tech Awards.
Tando mentioned Musa’s mission is to assist 10,000 numerous founders and shut the funding hole for the 240 million under-financed SMEs globally.
“Our platform permits founders to evaluate their enterprise efficiency in opposition to business benchmarks, guiding them on the metrics that matter most to traders,” she mentioned.
“We’re set to change the funding panorama for the higher and bridge the trillion-dollar funding hole that disproportionately impacts numerous entrepreneurs.”
Dr Matanda mentioned Musa lets founders transfer past conventional pitch decks.
“Our platform builds a dashboard that mirrors what traders have to see – making it simpler for founders to exhibit their potential and enhance their chance of discovering the perfect funders for his or her enterprise,” she mentioned
“We’re fostering a extra equitable funding ecosystem, guaranteeing each entrepreneur has the chance to thrive.”
On the funding-ready SXSW Sydney workshop they plan to share their insights with enterprise homeowners and traders alike in a deep dive into the vital benchmarks and metrics that decide funding success.
“By means of our workshop, we purpose to empower founders with the instruments and insights they want to reach right now’s aggressive funding panorama,” says Tando.
“By leveraging the intelligence of our platform, attendees will go away with actionable steps that may really remodel their ventures.”
Extra about Musa Ventures right here and Tuesday’s workshop right here.
