Sapna Shah is a Partner and Investment Director at Novastar Ventures. See sector focus and contact routes.
Sapna Shah is a Partner and Investment Director at Novastar Ventures, where she joined in 2015 after working as a portfolio manager at Acumen Fund and co-founding a Kenyan food start-up. Her investment thesis targets Seed and Series A companies in AgTech, FinTech, Social Commerce, TransportationTech, and ClimateTech across East Africa. Shah typically invests between $100,000 and $5.0 million and serves as a board member for portfolio companies, indicating a lead investor role. Notable portfolio companies include BasiGo, an electric bus operator; Soko, a social commerce platform; and Penda Health, a digital health provider. She also holds a board seat at Lynk Jobs, a workforce marketplace. Shah emphasizes enterprise’s power to create jobs and empower consumers, drawing on her background in international banking at HSBC and Lloyds to support early-stage African startups.
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