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Grace is an all-round investment professional with 15 years’ experience working with international financial institutions and start-ups/SMEs in Southern Africa and the United States. She is the Managing Partner of Untapped Global-SA Fund: A South African domiciled black female-owned emerging fund manager focused on investing venture debt in green economy assets of Southern Africa.  

The majority of her work experience to-date is in Investment Banking. This experience was gained over 10 years, 5 years of which was spent working in M&A at Goldman Sachs based in New York and Johannesburg. She was also on the Ambassador Board of Launch with GS, Goldman Sachs’ first for-profit initiative to invest in diverse, women-founded, owned and/or -led businesses in the U.S. 

She transitioned from investment banking to venture capital in 2020 in various roles whilst completing a Masters in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris. Undergrad was a Bachelor Business Science, Finance (Honours) from University of Cape Town.