Startup Growth Playbook Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Francois Servranckx
Ask Me Anything: Bhuva Shakti
Product, Operations, Fundraising Advisor
📍 Session #23 of the Startup Growth Playbook
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➡️ This session, Bhuva's guest is: Francois Servranckx, Founder & CEO of Green Gooding.
Startup Growth Playbook Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Francois Servranckx
Is Sustainability a Growth Strategy or a Cost Center?
Capital markets are evolving.
But investors still fund discipline, not intention.
🎯 Bhuva Shakti, Fundraising Advisor at Wallet Max, brings a product and operations lens shaped by years leading go-to-market execution, operational scale, and investor readiness for early-stage startups.
Her work helps founders turn traction into clarity, momentum, and fundable growth.
🎯 Francois Servranckx, Founder & CEO of Green Gooding, advises organizations on embedding sustainability into enterprise value creation.
Green Gooding is an on-demand rental platform that makes accessing small appliances and event equipment easy, affordable, and sustainable.
This Startup Growth Playbook LIVE session focuses on:
✅ What makes sustainability defensible and scalable
✅ How ESG strategy influences margin and long-term valuation
✅ Risk mitigation vs growth positioning
✅ How founders should communicate sustainability to investors without over-indexing on mission
Who should attend?
➡️ Investors, founders, operators, and ecosystem leaders evaluating or building climate, ESG, and sustainability-focused ventures.
📌 Session #23 of the Startup Growth Playbook Series
🎙️ LIVE Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Francois Servranckx
🗓️ February 18, 2026 at 3-4 PM ET
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About Francois Servranckx:
Francois Servranckx is a former humanitarian aid worker with over 15 years of experience in corporate impact, sustainability, and strategic partnerships, working with global organizations like Doctors Without Borders and UNICEF, as well as Fortune 500 companies such as HP, SAP, Guardian Life, and LEGO. He holds a Master’s in International Relations and a certification in Business Sustainability Management.
Green Gooding is an on-demand rental platform that makes accessing small appliances and event equipment easy, affordable, and sustainable. By partnering with local shops and manufacturers, we offer a convenient alternative to ownership—reducing storage needs, unnecessary production, and CO₂ emissions. With 900+ rentals, 650 customers, and recognition as a Reusies Finalist and NYC Circularity Champion, Green Gooding is proving that smarter consumption can deliver both impact and growth. We’re building a more convenient, community-powered, and climate-smart future.
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.
With more than 10 investments directly in impact entrepreneurs thus far, Wallet Max’s network of 2,000 innovators and 60 partners regularly meet in person and virtually throughout the year to mutually exchange connections and drive collective action. Wallet Max 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.
Learn more about Wallet Max success and 2026 global initiatives: https://getwalletmax.com/climate-forward
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 for investment banks, capital markets, and payment networks.
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.
Bhuva is the USA country director for World Business Angels Investment Forum and the Chief Ethics & Culture Officer for Women in AI worldwide. She leads fundraising strategy and product operations for market expansion and manages investor relations from diligence to investment. Bhuva is the founder of Bhuva’s Impact Global, offering board and enterprise risk advisory services for public and private corporations.