Our consulting practice sits at the intersection of thesis and delivery — we do the strategy work, then stay long enough to make sure the plan gets built.

3

Practice areas

14 wk

Avg. engagement

14 wk

Avg. engagement

24

Mandates / yr

71%

Repeat clients

Capabilities

Four practice areas, one operating logic.

Diagnostic sprints

Six-week reads of a mandate, a market or an organization — with a decision at the end, not another workshop.

Strategy & operating model

Thesis, five-year plan, governance and the org that has to carry it.

Investment & venture cases

Board-grade cases for new funds, venture arms and corporate innovation vehicles.

Implementation blueprints

The 90-day plan, the KPIs, the roles and the risk register — engineered to be handed to a team.

Sectors we serve

Where consulting meets ecosystem work.

Our clients sit on the buy-side of ecosystems — allocating capital, standing up institutions or setting policy.

Sovereign & public agencies

Sovereign wealth & DFIs

Corporates & CVCs

VC & PE funds

Ecosystem builders

Multilaterals

Typical outputs

Deliverables that survive the boardroom.

Board memo

A single decision document your board can act on.

Operating model

Roles, org chart, decision rights, KPIs, budget.

Implementation plan

90-day, 12-month and 36-month milestones with owners.

TESTIMONIALS

Words from the people we work beside.

"Working with Merstra has been more than a partnership — it's been a shared mission to build lasting ecosystem infrastructure."
Amara Osei
Founder,
Northgate Labs
"Working with Merstra has been more than a partnership — it's been a shared mission to build lasting ecosystem infrastructure."
Amara Osei
Founder,
Northgate Labs
"Working with Merstra has been more than a partnership — it's been a shared mission to build lasting ecosystem infrastructure."
Amara Osei
Founder,
Northgate Labs
"Their program design gave our incubator a structure we could actually scale across three countries."
Daniel Reyes
Program Director,
Vantree Collective
"Their program design gave our incubator a structure we could actually scale across three countries."
Daniel Reyes
Program Director,
Vantree Collective
"Their program design gave our incubator a structure we could actually scale across three countries."
Daniel Reyes
Program Director,
Vantree Collective
"Precise, consultative, and genuinely invested in the founders they support."
Priya Nair
Managing Partner,
Fieldstone Capital
"Precise, consultative, and genuinely invested in the founders they support."
Priya Nair
Managing Partner,
Fieldstone Capital
"Precise, consultative, and genuinely invested in the founders they support."
Priya Nair
Managing Partner,
Fieldstone Capital