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title: "Shilpi Sharma - Founder in Australia | Tal"
description: "Meet Shilpi Sharma, Founder & CEO, Ashwam | Longitudinal Women’s Health Intelligence | Preventive• Privacy-First Health Systems | AI Product Builder | Advisor | Board Member based in Australia."
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# Shilpi Sharma on Tal

## Headline

Founder & CEO, Ashwam \| Longitudinal Women’s Health Intelligence \| Preventive• Privacy\-First Health Systems \| AI Product Builder \| Advisor \| Board Member

## About

Ashwam is being built for women who are not “unwell,” but know something has changed in their \- cycle, energy, mood, sleep, or resilience \- and want a way to understand themselves over time, not just during appointments\. Ashwam is not designed to give instant answers\. It is designed to help women observe patterns, build context, and make sense of change in a way that respects lived experience, not averages or generic advice\. I build systems that let people, data, and intelligence work together over time\. My work sits at the intersection of human trust, machine intelligence, and long\-horizon problems especially in health, aging, and care\. I focus on domains where decisions compound over years, not quarters, and where technology must be accountable to real human lives\. In a world where AI can generate code, analysis, and content, the real work is no longer execution\. It is deciding what should exist, what data should be collected, who should be protected and how intelligence should be used responsibly\. That is where I operate\. I work with founders, researchers, clinicians, and investors to design platforms and ventures that are data\-native, privacy\-first and built for longitudinal human outcomes, not short\-term extraction\. My current focus is women’s health and preventive care because the next frontier of technology will not be about faster apps, but about understanding people over time, in their own bodies and lives\. If you are building in a future where humans don’t compete with machines but shape what machines serve, I would love to connect\.

## Location

Australia

## Work experience

Founder at Ashwam Co\., Sep 2025 \- Present · 10 mos, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Building Ashwam, a women’s health intelligence platform, an infrastructure layer that enables the longitudinal data layer for women in midlife\. Ashwam helps women and care teams make sense of these changes over time\. Longer term, we are building an evidence infrastructure that can support better prevention models, diagnostic research, clinical pathways, and medicine development for populations that have historically been underrepresented in health data\. My work sits at the intersection of technology, biology, preventive health, philosophy, and systems architecture \- reimagining women’s preventive health from first principles\.

Investment Committee Member at Tin Alley Ventures, Sep 2023 \- Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Tin Alley Ventures is a A$125m fund investing in deep tech startups affiliated with the University of Melbourne\. We invest from seed to pre\-IPO across all sectors, though our primary disciplines are life sciences and physical sciences\. Fund was created by the University of Melbourne in partnership with Tanarra Capital\. Portfolio companies: Cell Bauhaus, Synchron, Porous Lane, Proxima Bio, Apromore, Psychae

Board Member at Cell Bauhaus, Oct 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Serving as a Non\-Executive Board Member at Cell Bauhaus, a synbio company re\-imagining novel ingredients through engineered yeast strains\. I advise on strategy, partnerships, and scaling pathways \- bringing a systems lens that bridges science, tech, market adoption, and long\-term impact\.

Investor/Limited Partner at Portfolia, 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, United States, Portfolia creates investment funds designed for women, backing innovative companies, for returns and impact\. Focus areas includes: Active Aging & Longevity, Green & Sustainability, and Women's Health\. Selected companies: Hera Biotech, FEMDX, Neuspera, Maude, Attn Grace, Apollo Neuro, Veana Therapeutics, Toi Labs, Xandar Kardian, Siren

Chief Strategy Officer at Yum\! Brands, Mar 2021 \- Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Dallas\-Fort Worth Metroplex, GM for the business unit \(Kvantum by Yum\!\) that enables KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell to measure & optimize media, promotions, pricing, buying/engagement experience globally and outside Yum\! for selective brands; collectively supporting $75Bn\+ Sales\. Built the foundation of xBrand Consumer Data platform \(RED360\) in US for 140M\+ consumers with the consented data & privacy built\-ins\. Defined Yum’s analytics product roadmap aligned with KFC, TB, PH markets' digital customer strategy globally \(short\-term and long\-term\)

## Education

Master of Science \(MS\), Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

MBA, Strategy \| Technology & Innovation Management, University of California, Davis \- Graduate School of Management

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