Sapna Shah

Sapna Shah is an angel investor, retail expert and three-time entrepreneur.
Through Red Giraffe, she make investments in startups in the future of the retail and consumer, which includes B2B retail tech, marketplaces, ecommerce, consumer brands and consumer tech.
She has a particular focus on startups that have female and/or underrepresented founders, and invests only in US-based companies.
Select investments include: Visuwall, Silk + Sonder, Stantt, Dough, Robyn, Findmine, Modalyst, Monica + Andy, Iterate.ai and The Wing.
Sapna is also the founder of Retail X Series, an ecosystem for retail startups in New York and around the US, featuring events, a podcast, Slack community and resources for early stage founders who are revolutionizing the future of retail.
Retail X helps founders by providing content with experts given tactical advice on topics ranging from customer acquisition to financial modeling to early stage fundraising, targeted specifically to preseed and seed stage founders.
Sapna received her B.S.
in Economics from the Wharton School as well as a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
She received her M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.