MERSTRA — FOUNDATION FOR FOUNDERS & ECOSYSTEMS
Building the infrastructure behind growing ecosystems.
We work alongside startups and ecosystem builders on strategy, incubation, and program design — precise, consultative, built for the long run.
TRUSTED BY ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS
Numbers that carry weight, not decoration.
A decade of programs, partnerships and capital work — measured against outcomes that founders and public bodies actually asked us to hit.
IMPACT
WHO WE SERVE
Four audiences.
One operating stance.
We show up the same way regardless of who signs the engagement: as operators embedded in your problem, not consultants renting hours against it.
Consulting that shows up — then stays.
Three practices, one team. We move between them as your problem changes shape.
Our services
FEATURED PROGRAMS
Programs that pull ventures across the gap.
We show up the same way regardless of who signs the engagement: as operators embedded in your problem, not consultants renting hours against it.
WHY MERSTRA
We show up the way we wish our first advisors had.
ABOUT MERSTRA
A foundation built by operators, for the systems they wish existed.
Merstra Foundation was set up in 2014 to close a specific gap: ambitious ventures and public bodies had access to capital and advice, but not to program infrastructure that could compound outcomes over time.
Today we operate as a foundation — not-for-profit, program-first, embedded across 14 countries — designing the connective tissue between founders, funds, hubs and governments.
2014
ESTABLISHED
48
TEAM & FELLOWS
120+
ADVISORS & MENTORS
CASE STUDIES
Work that produced measurable outcomes.
TESTIMONIALS
Words from the people we work beside.
KNOWLEDGE HUB
Research, playbooks and frameworks.
INSIGHTS
Long-form thinking from the field.
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For Ecosystems
Strategy
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One long-form dispatch per month. No summaries of things you can read elsewhere.
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