Radhika Shah

Radhika is an Angel & Impact investor from Silicon Valley, and CoPresident at Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs; a community of about 1200 entrepreneurial Stanford students, faculty members and alumni. She has been an advisor, mentor, co-convener & judge at Innovation Accelerators Startx & Skydeck Labs, US SBA and UN Solutions Summit. She is a founding volunteer of the mentoring group RajeevCircle.org and is a speaker/panelist at Stanford and Berkeley classes, seminars, and events, such as the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, SDG Media Zone at United Nations HQ, and The National Academy of Sciences.  She is part of a study group focused on impact of Technology at the Center for Global Development.

 

Radhika is passionate about leveraging technology for social good, and has been active in civic engagement & social causes since her early childhood, having grown up under the influence of the Gandhi Ashram and Gandhian thought-leader grandfather. She is an advisor to the Sustainable Development Goals Philanthropy Platform, co-founded the former Ashoka SV chapter, sits on the Silicon Valley Leadership Council for Action for India, and is an advisor to Impact Experience and Illumen Capital a Fund of Impact Funds. She sits on the International Advisory Network for the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) and is also a founding member of the Tech Advisory group for BHRRC. She is a co-author of the article, "Race influences professional investors’ financial judgments" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

 

She is on the Steering Committee for the Stanford Refugee Research Project. Radhika holds a M.S. Computer Science from Stanford and an M.B.A from Berkeley.