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Hema Vallabh

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General Partner at Five35 Ventures · Investor at Dazzle Angels

City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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About

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.

Invests in

Impact & Social Good

Experience

  1. Five35 VenturesFounding Partnercurrent2020 — presentSouth Africa
  2. WomHubCo-Foundercurrent2017 — presentJohannesburg Area, South Africa
  3. Dazzle AngelsLimited Partnercurrent2020 — present
  4. WomEngCo Foundercurrent2006 — presentSouth Africa
  5. African Leadership Academy SEPAdvisory Board Member2017 — 2020Johannesburg
  6. The Passionate ProfessionalFounder & CEO2014 — 2018South Africa
  7. IDM Business SchoolProgram Director, School of Mentorship2015 — 2017Sub-Saharan Africa
  8. African Leadership NetworkFellow2014 — 2017
  9. SAWomEngManaging Director2013 — 2014Johannesburg/Cape Town
  10. SAWomEngGirlEng Director2010 — 2012South Africa
  11. SasolSenior Process Engineer2013Johannesburg Area, South Africa
  12. Sasol O&S, GermanySenior Process Engineer2011 — 2012Brunsbuttel, Germany
  13. Sasol TechnologyProcess Engineer2008 — 2011Sasolburg
  14. SAWomEngGirlEng National Coordinator2007 — 2009

Skills & more

Chemical Engineering60Process Engineering53Strategy30Engineering33Process Simulation14Petrochemical6Coaching8Catalysis7Process Optimization7Process Design5Team Building6Team Leadership7
+12 moreR&DTrainingEngineering DesignTime ManagementMentorshipMentoringResearchDiversity & InclusionCommunicationFacilitationManagementLeadership

Languages Afrikaans · English · German

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Colleagues at Five35 Ventures

Aanchal Rohira
Head of Operations at Five35 Ventures
Ben Muchimuti
Investment and Portfolio Management Lead at Five35 Ventures
Evan Cummack
Venture Partner at Zenda
Fatou Toure
General Partner at Five35 Ventures

Frequently asked questions

Who is Hema Vallabh?
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.
Where does Hema Vallabh work?
Hema Vallabh is General Partner at Five35 Ventures and at Dazzle Angels.
What does Hema Vallabh invest in?
Hema Vallabh invests in Impact & Social Good.
Where did Hema Vallabh go to school?
Hema Vallabh studied at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (Executive MBA, Business); Stanford University Graduate School of Business (VC Unlocked); Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship).

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