​Ask Me Anything: Bhuva Shakti

​​Product, Operations, Fundraising Advisor

​​📍 Session #20 of the Startup Growth Playbook

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​This week, Bhuva's guest is Tiya Gordon, Co-Founder & CEO at it's electric. Tiya holds 20 years experience in design, leadership, and operations across a range of disciplines for some of the country’s top firms and institutions. She is now venturing to spend the next 20 years building companies that use design to wage war against the Climate Crisis.

​​Startup Growth Playbook Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Tiya Gordon

​This Startup Growth Playbook LIVE session reframes the startup and investor ecosystem as a strategic business conversation rooted in clarity, traction, and momentum based on real startup founder's insights.

​We’ll walk through:

• ​How to highlight traction even when you’re early

• ​How to communicate momentum with simple, credible storytelling

• ​How to answer tough questions without losing the narrative

​You’ll learn how to:

​✅ Translate customer signals into credible traction

​✅ Use storytelling frameworks that de-stress delivery

​✅ Turn pitch feedback into a stronger fundraising strategy

​If fundraising feels overwhelming or unnatural, this session gives you a structure that works for real conversations with real investors.

​And, check out my website for FREE startup and leadership resources → https://www.bhuvas-impact.global/bhuva/

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​About Tiya Gordon:

​Tiya Gordon holds 20 years experience in design, leadership, and operations across a range of disciplines for some of the country’s top firms and institutions. She is now venturing to spend the next 20 years building companies that use design to wage war against the Climate Crisis.

​Her career's work has received the industry’s top accolades, including The National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; the SXSW Innovation Award for Urban Infrastructure; the Inaugural Cannes Gold Lion for Creative Data; the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival; the designation of second most innovative design firm in the world; the 2023 Innovation by Design Award by Fast Company; the 2023 Next Big Thing In Tech; the 2024 Keeling Curve Prize; and was named a 2024 Finalist for the Earthshot Innovation Challenge.

​She is also fortunate enough to share her perspective on climate, design, innovation, and gender for key audiences including those at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, The Urban Land Institute, and Aspen Energy Week. Her work has also been covered by Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Grist, and The Atlantic.

​it's electric solves the biggest barriers cities face in the deployment of public EV charging.

​​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.