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Shalini Sardana

Founder of She Raises Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Shalini Sardana is a Co-Founder & Co-CEO who excels in supporting female founders in building successful businesses and securing funding, recognized by Fast Company's Honorary List for World Changing Ideas 2022 and a graduate of Founder Institute. With a background in investment readiness and community development, she has held roles as an Angel Investor, Startup Mentor at Techstars, and Venture Partner at Republic, showcasing expertise in leadership development and strategic thinking.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder & Co-CEO / Chief Designer

    2024 - Current

    She Raises Capital is a global AI driven matching and funding platform for early stage female founders across sectors to connect with investors and ecosystem partners. 350+ founders & 150+ investors are already on the platform and continue to grow. Our data driven platform is built as an end-to-end capital raise experience that systematizes & reduces barriers for founders. The core focus is on improving visibility for our founders, making the process more predictable and bringing multiple funding options they need to build, run and grow successful businesses. We support our founders with business education, resources and tools in addition to a strong community for peer to peer support. Once ready we put you in front of investors and bring you other capital sources. Multiple AI driven tools - Investment Readiness Assessment, Investor-Founder Matching, Due Diligence Reports and more.

  • Capital Raise Consultant

    2020 - 2023

    Worked with 80+ early stage female founders for over 3.5 years to get them investment ready for investors, increase visibility, create more predictability in the capital raise process and bringing them funding optionality from grants, loans, debt financing to venture funding. Provided customized strategies for to meet the founder's specific needs, provided strategic introductions and personalized mentoring. For those raising capital, access to proprietary investment readiness assessment & recommendations that would put founders in their drivers seat of their capital raise journey. Built a relationship with early stage investors providing them high quality deal flow, also helping their portfolio companies close rounds with angel investors.

She Raises Capital a capital-raise consulting and advisory firm to address these challenges by bringing knowledge, support, and connections.

  • Limited Partner

    2025

    How Women Invest is a women-led venture firm that invests solely in women founders. Limited Partners are a community of industry leaders investing together to shift the venture capital landscape one woman at a time.

How Women Invest is a venture capital firm that focuses on identifying women-led companies.

  • M&A Strategic Partner (US)

    2025

    Dedicated AI-powered M&A matchmaking platform helping strategic corporates and companies in the new-age sectors do transactions at a much faster pace than conventional investment banker. Closed 42 deals in IT Services, SaaS, Fintech

  • Startup Advisor & Mentor

    2023

    Providing guidance to early stage startups from simple consultation encompassing mentorship, networking and hands-on support needed for strategic growth to investment readiness for capital raise, support in closing rounds and access to my entrepreneurial ecosystem.

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    Eisana Corp, founded by Dr Carole Spangler Vaughn Eisana is redefining how cancer patients experience treatment by developing affordable, tech-enabled solutions to prevent the most debilitating side effects. Products include cooling devices to prevent nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy) and hair loss during chemotherapy. Backpack Healthcare, co-founded by Hafeezah Muhammad Backpack Healthcare is a youth and family behavioral and mental healthcare company making mental healthcare more personal, accessible and inclusive. Hubly Surgical, founded by Casey Grage Hubly Surgical is bringing cranial/orthopedic drilling solution to market. Mahmee, co-founded Melissa Hanna Mahmee is revolutionizing maternal and child healthcare with a patient-centric care management platform that makes it easy for practitioners to make referrals and collaborate to deliver high-quality, individualized care online and in person. C-Note, co-founded by Yuliya Tarasava and Catherine Berman CNote is a women-led impact investment platform that uses technology to unlock diversified and proven community investments that increase economic mobility and financial inclusion. Bloomi, cofounded by Rebecca Alvarez Story Bloomi is a BIPOC and sexologist-led wellness destination that offers inclusive content and clean intimate care essentials for all bodies.

Self Employed is a contracting company that provides independent contracting services.

  • Startup Mentor

    2023 - 2023

Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.

Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.

  • Advisory Board Member for 'Women Living a Richer Life'

    2022 - 2022

    The unprecedented collective economic power of women today represents a historic shift in global culture. For the first time, women hold the financial resources and influence to reshape industries, communities, and their own futures. To fully embrace this shift, it’s time to engage in deeper conversations about how women can take ownership of their wealth and make intentional decisions about how it is used. Women Living a Richer Life (WLRL), led by Tama Smith, is a dynamic and empowering community dedicated to helping women cultivate wealth—not just in monetary terms, but in every area of life. This community equips women with the knowledge, tools, and mindset to build lives that integrate financial, social, emotional, and physical wellbeing. The mission of WLRL is to spark meaningful conversations, create valuable connections, and foster a sense of community that encourages women to align their financial and personal decisions with their deeper purpose and passions.

Brighton Jones is an investment advisory and financial planning firm headquartered in Seattle.

  • Founder

    2019 - 2022

    Impact by Women is a bootcamp for female entrepreneurs that also helps them find values-aligned investors. Raising capital is reported as one of the biggest challenges faced by women entrepreneurs. The experience is fraught with multiple barriers and inadequate support & mentorship throughout the process. Low success rates perpetuate a cycle of self doubt for existing entrepreneurs while discouraging new entrepreneurs to enter the arena. We want to change this experience. We understand the importance of an investor who sees the value of investing in women for a better future and can support their entrepreneurial vision. Our goal is to match women with such values-aligned investors. As the pipeline of such investors continues to grow, a bridge that connects them to vetted women entrepreneurs is needed. Impact by Women provides this bridge.

  • Activator

    2019 - 2021

    SheEO is a global community of radically generous women transforming the way we fund, support and celebrate women-led Ventures working on the World’s To Do List. Since launching in 2015, 4000 women Activators in four countries have collectively loaned out $4M to support 53 women-led Ventures. Our goal is to reach 1M women Activators and a $1B perpetual fund which will support 10,000 women-led Ventures each year for generations to come. Are you IN? https://sheeo.world/

  • Angel Investor

    2018 - 2021

    SF Fall 2018 Cohort Pipeline Angels is a network of women investors working to "change the face of angel investing" and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Since launching in April 2011, 200+ women have invested over US$5M in 50+ companies. As an angel investor, I'm supporting women entrepreneurs for a better and more equitable future. Becoming an investor has challenged the creative in me to develop entrepreneurial perspectives at the same time use my creativity to change the status quo. Areas of focus: FemTech, Women’s Health, EdTech, Financial education for women

Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs.

  • Venture Partner

    2020 - 2021

    The Venture Partner Program includes founders and investors who support Republic's mission to democratize investing and provide access to capital for underrepresented founders.

Republic Crypto offers a compliant and inclusive blockchain financing and investment platform for investors seeking high growth potential.

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