MERSTRA — FOUNDATION FOR FOUNDERS & ECOSYSTEMS
Enabling the infrastructure behind growing ecosystems.
We design and run the programs that move startups toward revenue, capital, and new markets and help institutions backing them deliver real outcomes.
WHO WE SERVE
For every stakeholder in the Ecosystem
We show up the same way regardless of who signs the engagement: as operators embedded in your problem, not consultants renting hours against it.
Trusted by the ecosystem
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
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.
Consulting that shows up, then stays.
Three practices, one team. We move between them as your problem changes shape.
Our services
TESTIMONIALS
Words from the people we work beside.
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.
2023
ESTABLISHED
48
TEAM & FELLOWS
120+
ADVISORS & MENTORS
CASE STUDIES
Work that produced measurable outcomes.
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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