Join Bhuva Shakti, Founder & CEO at Wallet Max, as she speaks with investors looking to leverage inclusion and impact without compromising growth of investments.

​This month, Bhuva's guest is Renata Aráuz-DeStefano, investor at Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates company, where she backs women-led venture capital funds and makes mission-aligned early-stage investments.

​About Renata Aráuz-DeStefano:
Renata has spent over a decade bridging the finance and social impact sectors, having held roles in microfinance, investment banking, social enterprises, and venture capital. Renata is currently an investor at Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates company, where she backs women-led venture capital funds and makes mission-aligned early-stage investments.

​Most recently, she served as a consultant with the New Capitalism Project and an investor at Nairobi-based KawiSafi Ventures, where she focused on the clean energy space.

​A proud SEO and Toigo alumna of Ecuadorian descent, Renata is passionate about increasing access to capital for diverse GPs and founders and building a bench of future capital allocators who reflect the changing demographics of the US. She holds a BA in International Relations and French from Tufts University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

​About Wallet Max:
​Wallet Max is an inclusive global community of corporate executives and venture capitalists with a mission to expand fundraising access for high-growth startups in the technology, AI, fintech, and climate sustainability sectors.

Wallet Max's Planet Positive Podcast is a monthly interview with investors driving impact globally. Aligned with our mission to challenge the status quo, we showcase personal and professional journeys of diverse investors (Angels, VCs, PEs, Family Office, Corporate Venture) looking to leverage inclusion and impact without compromising growth of investments. Supporting sustainable innovations is good for people's wellbeing, planet survival, and financial profits.

About Bhuva Shakti:
​​​​Bhuva Shakti (she/her) is the futuristic founder and CEO driving sustainable innovation at Wallet Max, a global community of corporate executives, policy leaders, and venture capital investors expanding fundraising access for high-growth impact startups. With an MBA from Columbia University in New York and as a senior executive director on Wall Street for three decades, Bhuva has managed diverse financial portfolios and launched several digital transformation products.

​​Bhuva’s leadership and risk governance oversight, during the global financial crisis and the pandemic, was pivotal for the success of regulatory compliance and mergers acquisitions at the world's top banks and credit rating institutions. Bhuva is a board director and C-Suite advisor for people and planet friendly businesses, without compromising profits, and a keynote and TEDx speaker advancing economic inclusion and climate-fintech partnerships.

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​Join Bhuva Shakti, Founder & CEO at Wallet Max™, as she speaks with investors looking to leverage inclusion and impact without compromising growth of investments.

​This month, Bhuva's guest is Aaron Walker, the founder and Managing Partner at Ruthless for Good Fund, an early-stage fund that invests the most resilient, enterprising and often overlooked founders who are at the earliest stages of building companies that improve how we learn, work and live.

​About Aaron Walker:

Aaron is currently the founder and Managing Partner at Ruthless for Good Fund, an early-stage fund that invests the most resilient, enterprising and often overlooked founders who are at the earliest stages of building companies that improve how we learn, work and live.

​Aaron believes in the audacity of founders to help build companies that improve lives and create value. In his most recent company, Camelback Ventures, he founded an accelerator that has invested in over 180 founders, leading companies to subsequent funding rounds ($365M+) and profitable outcomes.

​Aaron has over 10 years of practice partnering with founders, including: counseling founders through disagreements; helping founders close funding gaps in weeks; or advising to resolve strategy and talent needs. His perspective on partnering with entrepreneurs is also informed by his time as a teacher (set the conditions for others to shine), and his time as an attorney (great service providers bring domain expertise and business acumen to their clients). If you’re curious about where he’s worked and learned, check out LinkedIn.

​About Wallet Max:
​Wallet Max is an inclusive global community of corporate executives and venture capitalists with a mission to expand fundraising access for high-growth startups in the technology, AI, fintech, and climate sustainability sectors. Wallet Max's ecosystem of events and initiatives are prominent during the New York Fintech Week, the New York Tech Week, and the New York Climate Week every year.

Wallet Max's Planet Positive Podcast is a monthly interview with investors driving impact globally. Aligned with our mission to challenge the status quo, we showcase personal and professional journeys of diverse investors (Angels, VCs, PEs, Family Office, Corporate Venture) looking to leverage inclusion and impact without compromising growth of investments. Supporting sustainable innovations is good for people's wellbeing, planet survival, and financial profits.

​​About Bhuva Shakti:
​​​​Bhuva Shakti (she/her) is the futuristic founder and CEO driving sustainable innovation at Wallet Max, a global community of corporate executives, policy leaders, and venture capital investors expanding fundraising access for high-growth impact startups.

Join Bhuva and have a seat at the table to be on the forefront of planet positive investing. Get Tickets to an Upcoming Event Here.

Would you like to promote your brand to an engaged and loyal community in the Climate Tech Space? Become an event sponsor.

Learn more about Wallet Max and our mission on the website.

Join Bhuva Shakti, Founder & CEO at Wallet Max, as she speaks with investors looking to leverage inclusion and impact without compromising growth of investments.

​This month, Bhuva's guest is Adrianna Samaniego, a Partner at Cherryrock Capital, venture firm focused on leading an and co-leading Series A & B rounds in underinvested founding teams.

​About Adrianna Samaniego:
Adrianna Samaniego is a Partner at Cherryrock Capital, venture firm focused on leading an and co-leading Series A & B rounds in underinvested founding teams. At Cherryrock, Adrianna applies her extensive experience to support the best emerging technology startups in scaling from $1M to $100M+.

​Prior to Cherryrock, Adrianna was a Partner at Female Founders Fund, a leading early-stage fund investing in female-founded technology companies across B2B, Healthcare, Climate, and Enterprise Saas. In this role, she managed the investment team and led over twenty-five investments in rapidly growing female-led startups. Additionally, Adrianna was instrumental in establishing and managing the FFF Scout Program, which targets early-stage Black, Latine, and Indigenous female founders, as well as the FFF Entrepreneur in Residence program and the FFF MBA Program. Her investment acumen and dedication to fostering diversity in tech drive her approach to building category-defining businesses.

​Her expertise in scaling businesses is complemented by an eight-year tenure at Google, where she co-founded Emporium within Area 120, Google’s startup incubator, where she led the rapid development and launch of a B2B marketplace aimed at enhancing procurement opportunities for diverse-owned businesses. This complemented her leadership and creation of Google's Global Supplier Diversity Program, which generated over $2B in opportunities for diverse-owned companies.

​Recognized for her trailblazing efforts, Adrianna has been honored with distinctions such as Fast Company Queer50, Business Insider Rising Star in VC, a Kauffman Fellow (Class 28), University of Georgia's 40 Under 40, an Alumni Society Class of '22 member, and receiving the Top Latinas in Tech Giants award.

​A proud Mexican-American from Douglas, Arizona, Adrianna received a B.B.A. in Finance from University of Georgia and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.

​About Wallet Max:
​Wallet Max is an inclusive global community of corporate executives and venture capitalists with a mission to expand fundraising access for high-growth startups in the technology, AI, fintech, and climate sustainability sectors.

​​About Bhuva Shakti:
​​​​Bhuva Shakti (she/her) is the futuristic founder and CEO driving sustainable innovation at Wallet Max, a global community of corporate executives, policy leaders, and venture capital investors expanding fundraising access for high-growth impact startups. She is also the founder of Bhuva’s Impact Global, offering board and enterprise risk advisory services for public and private corporations.

Join Bhuva and have a seat at the table to be on the forefront of planet positive investing. Get Tickets to an Upcoming Event Here.

Would you like to promote your brand to an engaged and loyal community in the Climate Tech Space? Become an event sponsor.

Learn more about Wallet Max and our mission on the website.