Five35 Ventures

Hema Vallabh is a trained engineer who became an entrepreneur and investor. She co-founded and leads WomHub, a pan-African incubator and co-working space for female founders in STEM, which spun out of the non-profit WomEng that supports women across the engineering pipeline. She is a founding partner at Five35 Ventures, a pan-African VC fund investing in women in tech, and an angel investor with Dazzle Angels; she is also a certified ontological coach and is pursuing an Executive MBA at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.

Chief Product Officer of Aerospike and former CEO of Fin.com; joined Twilio as its first solutions engineer and helped build its wireless business unit.

Ben Muchimuti is an engineer who moved into technology sales and marketing, then startup operations, and now venture capital, with more than a decade of experience across several African countries. He previously held senior commercial leadership roles in sales and marketing at global technology companies and led pan-African operations in an executive capacity, and has advised tech-enabled startups on growth strategy and funding as an independent consultant. He is an engineer and qualified accountant (CPA) and holds an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Aanchal Rohira is an operations consultant with a legal background spanning nearly a decade. Qualified as an advocate in India, she most recently worked in corporate law at Dentons Mauritius LLP, advising international clients on setting up global businesses and funds, conducting due diligence, and supporting corporate transactions. She previously practiced real estate and dispute resolution law in Mumbai and now focuses on building operational frameworks and processes, with an interest in reducing the gender funding gap in African venture capital.