Global Business Development & Venture Acceleration

MS GROUP

Empowering Growth. Driving Success. Building for the Future.

A globally active business development and venture acceleration group. We take compelling opportunities, from any country, in any sector, and scale them across the world. Whether a business is looking to expand beyond its borders for the first time or enter entirely new markets, MS GROUP provides the expertise, relationships, and infrastructure to make it happen.

Global Footprint

People & Places.

MS GROUP operates from 18 cities across 5 continents, with active presence in 9 countries. Each location is a foothold for cross-border deals, partnerships, and venture acceleration.

5
Continents
9
Countries
18
Cities
MS GROUP global footprint — 18 cities across 5 continents
5 Continents
11+ Countries Active
Equity Stake in all key projects
Decades Combined leadership experience
About MS GROUP

From anywhere.
To everywhere.

MS GROUP is a globally active business development and venture acceleration group. We identify, co-own, and commercialise high-impact projects, technologies, and intellectual property, with no limitation on where an opportunity originates or where it goes.

We are specialists in cross-border execution. Many businesses are exceptional at what they do, but they don't know how to take their business offshore meaningfully, with partners they can trust, who understand how to navigate different cultures, regulations, and commercial environments. That is precisely what MS GROUP does.

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Cross-Border Execution
We take businesses from anywhere to everywhere. Whether the origin is Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia, or the Middle East. MS GROUP has the track record, relationships, and on-the-ground expertise to scale any opportunity across borders. Navigating regulatory environments, cultural nuances, and commercial complexities is what we do.
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Venture Acceleration & Incubation
The group actively incubates and accelerates early-to-growth-stage companies, providing not just capital and connections, but hands-on strategic execution.
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Licensing & Distribution
MS GROUP secures regional master licences and distribution rights for breakthrough technologies, then builds the commercial infrastructure to monetise them at scale.
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Strategic Equity Participation
MS GROUP participates as a genuine stakeholder. We hold equity positions or equity options, typically alongside distribution rights, ensuring our success is directly tied to yours.
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Regulatory & Compliance Intelligence
With active operations spanning five continents, the group has developed rare institutional knowledge of how different markets operate, regulate, and grow. This intelligence takes years to build and cannot be replicated without genuine on-the-ground presence.
Our Approach

"MS GROUP provides the infrastructure, local intelligence, regulatory know-how, and executive relationships needed to take promising opportunities from concept to commercial reality, in markets that require genuine on-the-ground expertise to navigate."

MS GROUP, Group Information Document 2025

Sectors of Operation

Where we operate.

MS GROUP's portfolio spans six core sectors, each chosen for their high-growth potential and alignment with the group's cross-border commercialisation model.

💹 Financial Instruments
📡 Media & Advertising
💻 Technology
🔗 Digital Assets
📶 Telecommunications
🛒 E-Commerce
Active Projects
Water Technology
Chemical-free, membrane-free advanced water treatment systems. MS GROUP holds equity and distribution rights across certain global jurisdictions.
Equity Partner — Global Acceleration Partner
Escalator Safety & Media
Patented technology improving escalator safety with integrated media and communications applications. Deployed across 11 countries globally.
Master Licensor
Impact Investment
Dedicated to deploying financial instruments across medical, green technology, agriculture, water security, housing, and alternative energy sectors.
Equity & Operations
Out-of-Home Media
Empowering site owners with full ownership of digital and static media boards, turning high-traffic locations into premium revenue-generating assets.
Equity & Operations
Digital Assets & Fan Economy
The world's first global talent exchange platform: blockchain-verified digital trading cards enabling athletes, artists, and entrepreneurs to monetise their brand.
Token Holding & Acceleration
Advanced Materials
Holders of a patented plasma oxidation process, a critical stage in carbon fibre manufacturing, that is three times faster and uses a fraction of the energy of conventional methods. The technology can bolt onto existing production facilities or anchor an entirely new manufacturing line.
Equity Partner — Global Acceleration Partner
Telecommunications & IT
At the forefront of innovative communication solutions since 2006. The exclusive distributor of Nextiva across Africa, delivering world-class VoIP, unified communications, IT infrastructure, and AI-powered smart communication systems to businesses across the continent.
Equity Option — Global Acceleration Partner
Unified CX Management
Leading cloud-native Unified Customer Experience Management platform. 100,000+ businesses globally. Backed by Goldman Sachs. Rated #1 across G2, Gartner, and Trustpilot.
Global Acceleration Partner
Business Process Outsourcing
Based in Durban with global reach. 30+ years of BPO experience, 1,500+ agents across 14 sites. Proven track record of quality delivery combining skilled agents with world-class technology.
Global Acceleration Partner
Decarbonisation
A modular, bolt-on decarbonisation technology that captures CO2 from any industrial emitter and converts it into stable, commercially valuable by-products including green hydrogen. Applicable to power stations, cement, steel and any heavy industrial facility. Independently verified.
Capital Raise & Global Acceleration Partner
Incubation Pipeline
Luxury Watch Retail & Investment
A curated luxury timepiece platform with over a decade of experience, offering clients top-class service, expert guidance, and investment-grade watch acquisition.
Equity & Distribution
Language-as-a-Service
WWTC
B2B automated and live interpretation SaaS eliminating language barriers across 90+ languages. Deployable via phone, text, online, live events, and documents. HIPAA, GDPR, and ADA compliant.
Global Acceleration Partner
Consumer Electronics / ODM-OEM
Leading innovator in consumer electronics, smart home products, and connected devices. Specialises in ODM and OEM manufacturing for industry-leading brands across telecom, utility, education, and hospitality.
Global Acceleration Partner
Waste-to-Fuel
Transforming municipal and industrial waste into low-carbon renewable fuels, addressing the waste crisis and energy transition simultaneously through a proven circular economy model.
Global Acceleration Partner
Leisure & Sport Technology
Surf Arena Wave Pool
Patent-pending travelling standing wave pool technology, a new category offering accessible surf experiences for all levels, with global licensing potential.
Founding Partner — IP Development — Global Acceleration Partner
Digital Entertainment & Gaming
An esports venture targeting the rapidly growing African and Middle Eastern gaming and digital entertainment market, one of the fastest growing globally.
African Acceleration Partner
Clinical Communication
Purpose-built clinical communication platform powered by Nextiva infrastructure. HIPAA-aligned, integrates with Epic, Oracle Health, and Meditech. No new hardware, no training required.
Global Acceleration Partner
How We Operate

Lean by design.
High-return by structure.

MS GROUP's model is intentionally lean, the majority of required services are outsourced to specialist partners, keeping the cost base tight and the focus squarely on commercial execution and value creation.

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Represent
MS GROUP secures the regional representation and/or distribution rights for each technology it brings to market.
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Execute
We build the local commercial infrastructure, partnerships, regulatory approvals, distribution channels, and champion relationships on the ground.
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Commercialise
MS GROUP creates investable, licensable structures around each opportunity, generating returns for technology principals and MS Group investors alike.
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Grow
Each successful deployment becomes a proof of concept for the next market, creating a compounding portfolio of revenue-generating assets.
By The Numbers

How we invest.

MS GROUP is not a passive participant. We hold equity, we hold rights, we hold stock, and we take an active role in every position we enter. These are the numbers behind our conviction.

8
Equity Positions
Companies in which MS GROUP holds a direct equity stake
3
Equity Options
Options to acquire equity secured via performance triggers or future purchase rights
1
Stock Holdings
Active stock positions held across listed and unlisted entities
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Exclusive Rights
Regional master licences and exclusive distribution agreements secured
5
General Rights
Distribution and commercialisation rights held across broader territories
Our Model
MS GROUP participates as a genuine stakeholder in every opportunity we represent. We typically hold an equity position with distribution rights, or an equity option with distribution rights. Those rights are predominantly exclusive, though in some cases non-exclusive arrangements apply. Either way, we are invested in the outcome alongside you.
Leadership & Advisory Board

The people who open doors.

MS GROUP's strength is its people. The group's leadership and advisory structure combines decades of C-suite experience across retail, technology, media, real estate, law, finance, and international development, with a genuine global network that opens doors at the highest levels in every market the group operates in.

Lord Anthony St John of Blesto
Global Advisory Board · House of Lords, UK
A cross-bench Member of the UK House of Lords. Former legal counsel for Shell, oil analyst at Merrill Lynch covering Sub-Saharan Africa and the Far East, and MD of Globix Europe. Currently Chairman of Strand Hanson, Integrated Diagnostic Holdings plc, and Yellow Cake plc. Deep expertise in cyber security, financial services, and African business development.
Brian Esposito
Global Advisory Board · CEO, Esposito Intellectual Enterprises
Ranked among the world's top 10 CEOs (2020 & 2021 World CEO Rankings). Founder of EIE, 90+ entities and 150+ joint ventures across 25+ industry sectors globally. Core architect of Nodle (world's largest wireless IoT network) and TurnCoin. One degree of separation from virtually any industry or market.
Graeme Hornby
Co-Founder & Director
South African entrepreneur with 30+ years across media, design, retail investment, healthcare, and property development. Winner of the Investec Entrepreneur Award (2001). Co-founded Micore Solutions, MS GROUP's primary business incubation and international expansion vehicle.
Chris Trimble
Director
25+ years of global experience across FMCG, Automotive, and Media industries. Lived and worked in Germany, Australia, Malaysia, China, and Dubai. Director of MS GROUP.
Philip Gouws
Global Advisory Board
Former retail CEO of Quiksilver, Roxy, and DC Shoes under the Boardriders Group. Contributed to the international growth of the MS GROUP portfolio into five continents. Expertise spans M&A, business development, licensing, global office establishment, and cross-border strategy, the precise skills that underpin MS GROUP's model.
Advisory Network
A global network that opens doors at the highest levels in every market MS GROUP operates in.
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