​Ask Me Anything: Bhuva Shakti

​​Product, Operations, Fundraising Advisor

​​📍 Session #21 of the Startup Growth Playbook

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​➡️ This session, Bhuva's guest is: Brandi DeCarli, Co-Founder & CEO at Farm From a Box.

​​Startup Growth Playbook Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Brandi DeCarli

​How Climate Infrastructure Startups Actually Scale

​🎯 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.

​🎯 Brandi DeCarli, C-Founder & CEO of Farm From a Box, is building climate-resilient food systems through clean infrastructure, digital tools, and innovative financing.

​Her work shows how impact-driven companies can scale with discipline and profitability.

​We’ll cover:

​✅ Real traction signals beyond pilots and press

​✅ Aligning impact, profitability, and scale

​✅ Communicating momentum to investors with clarity

​➡️ For founders, operators, investors, and ecosystem leaders working in climate, food systems, and applied technology.

​📌 Session #21 of the Startup Growth Playbook Series

​🎙️ Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Brandi DeCarli

​🗓️ January 28, 2026 at 3-4 PM ET

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​About Brandi DeCarli:

​Brandi DeCarli is the Founding Partner and CEO of Farm from a Box, a cleantech-powered agtech company building resilient food systems through modular infrastructure and digital tools. A recognized leader in climate-smart agriculture, she is driving a future where regenerative, nutritious food is accessible to all, and where farmers earn a living income through sustainable production. Brandi serves on the Board of Directors for Heifer International. A dynamic speaker, she has presented at TEDx, COP27, and the Explorer’s Club on topics spanning climate resilience, economic empowerment, and the power of collaborative innovation.

​Farm from a Box builds local food independence with clean technology and digital tools that power regenerative, climate-resilient supply chains. Our NexGen system integrates clean energy, adaptive irrigation, solar-powered cold storage, and an AI-ready data platform with API-connected market access, enabling farmers to grow, store, and sell more efficiently, increasing profitability. Through our lease-to-own subscription model, we remove upfront cost barriers, build farmer equity, and generate recurring SaaS revenue, creating a scalable network of profitable, climate-smart farms that strengthen local economies and food systems.

​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.