Shoba Viswanath

Shoba Viswanath currently serves as a mentor and advisor to startups at Plug and Play Tech Center and Alchemist Accelerator, focusing on helping startups address leadership, hiring, fundraising, and product challenges. As an investor at Laidlaw & Company (U.K.) Ltd., Shoba manages a pre-IPO portfolio, including Watchtower LLC, and has also become a pre-IPO investor at Events.com. With roles as an early investor in companies such as Robot Cache, Vevolution, Equifund, and Wefunder, Shoba conducts due diligence on early-stage startups to evaluate their potential. Additionally, as the CEO and founder of Viswanath Consulting LLC, Shoba specializes in assisting companies with funding, marketing, and achieving performance milestones. Shoba holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a candidate for a Doctor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.