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A private advisory. A personal investor.

Arvana is the practice of Anushree Sharma — a product leader and operator, offering counsel and quiet capital to founders at the earliest stage.

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About

A small practice, built around one conviction.

Arvana is my private practice, shaped by the work I've actually done. Over a decade of leading product teams across three continents and four industries, I kept arriving at the same quiet realisation: tech stacks change, AI changes, channels change. The person you're building for doesn't.

The products I've worked on that mattered all began with listening, and ended with something that fit into a real person's life rather than my roadmap. That's the one idea the practice rests on, and the only thing I'm interested in carrying forward.

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Operator-led
Every engagement is led by someone who has built and shipped product. Nothing is subcontracted or white-labelled.
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User at the centre
Every decision begins with the person on the other end. AI doesn't change that, and neither does scale.
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Built across borders
A decade of leading product across India, the US and the UK. The lessons of scaling across markets are first-hand here, not theoretical.
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AI-era product thinking
Thinking carefully about what AI changes for your product, your users and your organisation — and, just as importantly, what it doesn't.
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Practice

Two arms. One standard.

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Arvana Advisory

Hands-on counsel for product, operations and technology leaders. I embed for a fixed period to help with a specific problem — the aim is work that gets used, not a deck that sits on a shelf.

Areas of work
  • AI-era product strategy
  • International expansion & scale-up
  • Healthcare product & clinical workflow
  • User research & discovery led engagements
  • Fractional product leadership
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ii.
Arvana Capital

Personal cheques at the earliest stage. I back founders I think I can be genuinely useful to — usually in healthcare and B2B, where I've spent the last decade, with a quiet preference for women-led teams. Small cheques, honest conversations, and a long-term view. I don't lead rounds.

Where I tend to be most useful
  • B2B healthtech (provider, payor, infrastructure)
  • Compliance & clinical workflow tools
  • AI & automation in regulated environments
  • Women-led founding teams
  • Pre-seed to seed stage
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Founder

One operator. Personally accountable.

Anushree Sharma
Anushree Sharma
Founder

I'm currently VP of Product at Tendable, building tools that help providers stay on top of patient care and compliance without it feeling like a burden. Much of my recent focus is on using AI and automation to make compliance less reactive — catching issues before they become incidents, rather than scrambling afterwards.

I've spent ten years building product across healthtech and lifestyle, leading teams that ship. Before Tendable, I was co-founder and CPO at Nuw, a peer-to-peer marketplace working to take a small bite out of fast fashion. We raised $1.2M in pre-seed, moved into new markets, and tried to change how people think about their clothes. A steep learning curve, and one I'm grateful for.

My background is in Human-Computer Interaction, which still shapes how I approach product. I care about whether something works for the person using it, not only whether it works on paper. That means a lot of user research, a healthy scepticism toward assumptions, and a long-standing interest in making complex systems feel simple.

Selected press & speaking

A small record of elsewhere.

A short list of interviews, features and conference appearances. I don't go looking for press, but when I have something useful to share, I'm glad to.

Featured
Sifted 2022
"Women chief product officers making waves across startup Europe"

Profiled among Europe's standout women CPOs as co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Nuw — a peer-to-peer marketplace built to take a small bite out of fast fashion, which raised $1.2M in pre-seed led by NextView Ventures (first investor in thredUP, $1.3bn IPO).

Feature
Productwise 2023
Building sustainability-focused products for Gen Z

An episode on product leadership inside an early-stage startup — building habit-forming experiences for Gen Z, prioritising rigorously, and keeping the user at the centre as the team scales.

Podcast
Balance The Grind 2023
Balancing the Grind with Anushree Sharma, Chief Product Officer at Nuw

A long-form interview on building product across three continents, managing a CPO role alongside life, and the discipline of staying close to the user when everything else is moving fast.

Interview
The European Product Conference 2023
Speaker — product leadership panel, alongside CPOs from Schibsted, Carla and ManyPets
Speaking
Early bets

A short list, growing slowly.

Personal investments at the earliest stage. Each one is a founder I believed in before most people had heard the pitch — less a curated portfolio with a single thesis, more an honest record of where I've put my own money.

Healthtech · AI 2026
Diagna

AI agents that automate the clinic inbox — fax, email and document workflows turned into structured data, integrated with major EMRs. HIPAA-compliant, deployed in US clinics.

diagna.ai
Aerospace · Defence 2026
Hyprix

Hypersonic propulsion and supersonic payload delivery systems. Building Tezz, India's first commercial ramjet engine, for the aerospace and defence sector.

hyprix.in
Get in touch

I answer every email.

Whether you're a founder pitching your earliest round, a company weighing up an engagement, or a journalist on a deadline — there's just one address. You'll hear back from me personally, usually within a few days.

Write to me
hello@arvanaventures.com
Dubai · UAE London · UK