Get to know Sarah Dusek

Sarah spends her time paving avenues that allow passionate female entrepreneurs to drive change through her work with her company, Enygma Ventures. Now, she’s doing the same with her book, Thinking Bigger, and speaking engagements.

ABOUT sarah

Helping entrepreneurs take on bigger challenges, solve bigger problems, and operate in larger arenas.

Sarah Dusek is an activist at heart – she has spent her life pursuing her passions and dreams through being an entrepreneur, conservationist, venture capitalist, speaker, and now author.

In 2009, she founded the leading upscale outdoor hospitality brand Under Canvas, which she grew to a value of over $100M. Under Canvas received a spot on the coveted Inc. 5000 list in 2017, the same year that Sarah was also named to Ernst & Young’s EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women list.

Sarah believes in the power of leveraging challenging circumstances to propel forward change. At the helm of Enygma Ventures, she led the development of a special program in 2020 to help redefine systemic issues for female leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic. This ultimately resulted in Sarah investing $10M to women-led startups in the Southern African Development Community region.

Most recently, Sarah has also co-founded Few and Far, which creates sustainable eco-hospitality experiences to protect, preserve, and impact green spaces around the world.

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Cover of Thinking Bigger, Sarah Dusek's book providing a pitch deck formula for female entrepreneurs.
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Step by Step Business
Sarah Dusek on Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Africa
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10 MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR
Supporting Women-Led businesses in Africa
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STARTUP STORIES - MISERGY
The glamping startup that sold for over $100 million
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MAKING BILLIONS
Enygma Ventures - Venture Capitalist Reveals the Top 3 Things VC’s Need from Entrepreneurs

Looking to book Sarah as a speaker?

Sarah is passionate about empowering and elevating women entrepreneurs, equipping them with the knowledge and confidence to navigate the landscape of starting and scaling a business.

During her speaking engagements, Sarah seeks to transform how women perceive their own abilities, allowing them to break through the constraints of society, and use their unique strengths to think bigger.

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Enygma Ventures

Enygma Ventures helps grow scalable businesses in Africa that have the power to transform communities, cities, and nations.

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Few and Far

Few and Far Collection curates carbon neutral journeys to some of the world’s most extraordinary wild places.