Avanthi Shah is an accomplished Entrepreneur and Board member whose work experience has spanned global operations across multiple
geographies including the United States, India and Africa in the elds of technology, micro-nance and renewable energy.
She’s enthusiastic about the opportunities presented by the convergence of emerging technologies in the elds of Spatial Web, Blockchain,
Cryptocurrency, AI, VR/AR, IoT, Healthcare and Fintech and their immense potential for positive impact on the societal and the environmental ecosystems. To this end, she has co-founded a Strategy Consulting company, “NextVerse LLC” that helps companies nd and implement
opportunities for exponential growth.
https://www.nextverse.ai/
Prior to this, Avanthi has co-founded a Technology services company,
NextBrick Solutions Ltd with oces in India and the US, serving Fortune
2000 companies. Notable customers included NASA, MetLife,
AccessHollywood, IEEE, Department of Homeland Security (NPS), Nielson
Mobile and AAA, to name a few.
She also the founded Akshaya Micronance, a socio-economic enterprise, based in Rajasthan, India. Akshaya Micronance has been formed with the overarching goal of promoting nancial inclusion services in all forms either directly or through institutions in collaboration with the Government or others. The vision is to empower the marginalized poor to help them acquire ownership of productive assets and attain a reasonable level of income security. Currently, Akshaya is offering microcredit services to women in rural and semi-urban areas. These loans are being provided for both income generation and for taking care of emergency events that may risk the income generation capacity. The goal is to continue to add more innovative products, such as micro insurance & mutual funds etc, & channels the portfolio on an ongoing basis through market research and pilot programs.
Avanthi is Gold Medalist from Osmania university, an honorary Gold Medalist of the Indian Institute of Chartered Accountants, an MBA from Indian Institute of Management and winner of CRISIL-ICICI-CNBC TV18 Woman Entrepreneur of Year award. She was also recognized as “Young Turk Transformer” by CNBC TV-18. Avanthi is a recognized leader in India and Silicon Valley and has spoken
on various platforms on topics such as Entrepreneurship, Serving on Boards and Technology. She is passionate about emerging technologies and enjoys playing a signicant role in ventures that rank high on innovation as well as impact.
