Daniel Guasco is a Cape Town-based entrepreneur, technology executive, investor and business speaker with extensive experience across innovation, e-commerce, fintech, insurtech, leadership and building businesses in emerging markets.
He is perhaps best known as one of the entrepreneurs behind Twangoo, the South African group-buying business that was acquired by Groupon within its first year of operation. Daniel subsequently became a senior leader at Groupon South Africa, helping develop the business into one of Africa’s prominent e-commerce platforms. His broader corporate career has included experience with organisations such as Vodacom, Nestlé, Cadbury and Sony Ericsson, with work spanning South Africa, the UK and Central and Eastern Europe.
Daniel later co-founded Click2Sure, an insurtech business providing digital infrastructure that enables insurers, retailers, brokers and other businesses to distribute and manage insurance products through digital channels. He has also been involved in Team Africa Ventures, supporting and investing in technology-driven African businesses.
His entrepreneurial achievements include winning the IFC AfricaTech FinTech Award in Paris, an African Excellence Award and the U-Start Africa eCommerce Award. He was also a Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and has been recognised among the Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans.
As a speaker, Daniel draws on first-hand experience of starting, scaling, selling and investing in businesses, combining practical entrepreneurial insight with perspectives on technology and Africa’s rapidly evolving commercial landscape. His key speaking areas include entrepreneurship, innovation, digital disruption, leadership, technology, AI, fintech, scaling businesses and the future of African enterprise.
