​Ask Me Anything: Bhuva Shakti

​​Product, Operations, Fundraising Advisor

​​📍 Session #27 of the Startup Growth Playbook

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​➡️ This session, Bhuva's guest is: Kristina Fahl, Founder & CEO of Shuttlebee.

​​Startup Growth Playbook Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Kristina Fahl

​Fixing Broken Risk Models in Student Transportation

​Insurance should reflect risk. In many industries, it doesn’t.

​In student transportation, safe operators are often priced the same as high-risk ones — creating inefficiencies that limit growth, reduce access, and misalign incentives across the system.

​This session explores what it takes to rebuild risk models using real operational data.

​🎯 Bhuva Shakti, Fundraising Advisor at Wallet Max, brings a product, operations, and investor-readiness perspective to help founders translate early traction into scalable growth and investor-ready narratives.

​🎯 Kristina Fahl, Founder & CEO of Shuttlebee, launched Shuttlebee after running a student transportation company and seeing firsthand how inaccurate insurance pricing pushed strong operators out of the market.

​With experience scaling large operator networks at Bus.com and managing complex logistics for major institutional clients, Kristina brings a practical, operator-first view of how risk, pricing, and infrastructure intersect.

​This Startup Growth Playbook LIVE session focuses on:

​✅ Where traditional risk models fail in transportation

​✅ Turning operational performance into pricing advantage

​✅ Building trust across operators, insurers, and institutions

​✅ Scaling infrastructure in regulated, high-liability markets

​Who should attend?

​➡️ Founders, operators, investors, and ecosystem leaders building in insurtech, mobility, logistics, and infrastructure-first platforms.

​📌 Session #27 of the Startup Growth Playbook Series

​🎙️ LIVE Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Kristina Fahl

​🗓️ April 29, 2026 at 3-4 PM ET

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​About Kristina Fahl:

​Kristina Fahl started Shuttlebee after running an award-winning student transportation company — and watching good operators get priced out by insurance costs that didn't reflect their actual safety records.

​Before launching Shuttlebee, she led operations at Bus.com, scaling a network of thousands of operators across North America and managing logistics for major institutional clients, including a $100M contract at one of the world's largest airports.

​Graduate of RevTech Labs Accelerator and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program, NC IDEA Seed grant recipient and startup program alumna.

​Shuttlebee coordinates smarter risk transfer for student transportation in small groups.

​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.