Shaherose Charania

Shaherose Charania is passionate about open innovation in mobile and telephony startups. She is currently running Founder Labs - a pre-team, pre-idea incubator for new mobile startups. She is also an advisor at Opinno, an open innovation network for growth stage startups across web, mobile, cleantech and biotech. She is also a mentor with 500Startups. Recently she consulted Ribbit (acquired by British Telecom) on various consumer product.s and market launches. Previously, she was Director of Product Management at Talenthouse where she lead the company’s product from concept to initial alpha launch. Before that she was at JAJAH (acquired by Telefonica/O2) as the Director of Product Management and Marketing. She began her career in Silicon Valley at TiE Global overseeing governance and operations of 40+ entrepreneurship centers. In parallel, Shaherose is perhaps best known as the CoFounder and CEO of Women 2.0, a network and pre-incubator for woman-led startups in Silicon Valley. She has led its growth to include tens of thousands of participants, hosting monthly educational and networking workshops and engaging entrepreneurs and investors from top Venture Capital firms and Angel circles. Over the years she has seen over 300 early stage startups through Women 2.0 and has a strong interest in supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Shaherose holds a B.A. in Business Admin from The University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business and completed an international exchange program at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain.