Sayuri Sharper

Sayuri is a retired high-tech executive and business litigator. She is passionate about promoting a better world and lending her expertise to nurture social entrepreneurs to provide scalable solutions to global problems. Sayuri is a principal at KSF Impact, a private foundation that provides equity and debt financing for seed stage social enterprises. She also mentors social entrepreneurs through MIT D-Lab Scale-Up program, MIT Solve, and Santa Clara University Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI). Additionally, Sayuri is a senior partner at Acumen, a global non-profit that invests in social enterprises to tackle poverty, a member of Toniic, a global action community for impact investors. She has a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law and a B.S./MSEE from MIT.