Wallet Max Planet Positive Podcast with Investor Emma Leavy
Join Bhuva Shakti, Founder & CEO at Wallet Max, as she speaks with investors looking to leverage inclusion and impact without compromising growth of investments.
This month, Bhuva's guest is Emma Leavy, Investor at Gratitude Railroad where she oversees due diligence, portfolio management, and fund thesis development.
About Emma Leavy:
Emma Leavy is a Principal at Gratitude Railroad, where she leads the direct investing team for Gratitude Ventures Fund II. She has led 10+ transactions and sits on the boards of Cofertility and Climax Foods. She invests at the Seed / Series A level with an average first check of $1M into companies delivering both top-quartile venture returns as well as system-level impact in renewables, food systems, and social wellbeing. Emma started her career as a management consultant working with tech companies in the US and Asia, then pivoted into international development and impact investing. As the Director of Grant Programs at Comic Relief, she managed a portfolio of $167 million in impact investments and launched a new $6 million innovation fund. She has two postgraduate degrees that speak to the two sides of her heart (impact & business), a Masters in Peace & Conflict Studies as a fully funded Ransome Scholar at the University of St. Andrews and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas.
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About Wallet Max:
Wallet Max expands fundraising for growth-stage startups in sustainability and climate fintech sectors, and connects them with an inclusive community.
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.