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A private consultancy and an investor in early-stage healthcare.

Arvana is the practice of Anushree Sharma — an operator who has spent the last decade building and leading product teams in healthcare and consumer technology across three continents. We advise organisations on AI-era product strategy, and back early-stage B2B healthtech founders, with a particular focus on women-led teams. One conviction sits underneath all of it: the user comes first, or the work does not begin.

Established 2026 Dubai · London
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About

A small office, built around two convictions.

Arvana is the privately-held practice of Anushree Sharma — an operator first, an investor second. The decade behind the practice has been spent leading product teams and building things that ship, across three continents and four industries: healthcare, consumer technology, e-commerce and fashion. Always from inside the company, not the boardroom.

That operator decade taught one thing repeatedly. Technology stacks change. AI changes. Channels change. The user does not. Every product worth shipping began with listening — to clinicians, to operators, to the person at the other end of the screen — and ended with something that fit their life rather than the company's roadmap.

Today Arvana houses two practices under one name. We advise organisations on product strategy in the AI era, drawing on lived experience of scaling product from one market to many. We invest in early-stage B2B healthtech founders, with a particular focus on women-led teams. Both practices share one rule: the user is the brief, not an input to the brief.

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Operator-led
Every engagement is led personally by someone who has built and shipped product, not by someone who has only advised on it. We do not subcontract, we do not white-label, and we do not lend our name to work we have not done.
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User at the centre
Every engagement, every investment, every product decision starts with the person on the other end. AI does not change this. Scale does not change this. We do not change this.
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Built across borders
A decade of leading product teams across India, the United States and the United Kingdom — through healthcare, e-commerce, consumer tech and fashion. The lessons of scaling something from one market to many are not theoretical here.
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AI-era product thinking
We work with teams figuring out what AI changes about their product, their users and their organisation — and what it does not. Less hype, more clarity about where it earns its place in the workflow.
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Practice

Two arms. One standard.

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Arvana Advisory

Hands-on counsel for product, operations and technology leaders working out how to scale internationally and how to bring AI into their product without losing the user. We embed for fixed periods to fix specific problems — not to fill a deck or write a strategy nobody reads.

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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Arvana Capital

Personal capital into early-stage healthcare, with a particular focus on B2B healthtech and women-led teams. We back companies selling into hospitals, providers, payors and other healthcare operators — where the buyer is the workflow, not the patient. Most early-stage cheques in health still go to all-male founding teams; the gap between the talent and the access is wide, and we invest into it intentionally.

We write small cheques, ask direct questions, and stay involved for the long run. We do not lead rounds.

What we back
  • B2B healthtech (provider, payor, infrastructure)
  • Women-led founding teams
  • Clinical workflow & care delivery tools
  • Healthcare data & AI infrastructure
  • Pre-seed to seed stage
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Founder

One operator. Personally accountable.

Anushree Sharma
Anushree Sharma
Founder

An operator and product leader with a decade of building, leading and scaling product teams across three continents. Currently Vice President of Product at Tendable, the venture-backed healthcare quality platform used by hospitals and care providers across the UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand — work that sits at the intersection of clinical workflow, frontline AI, and operational scale.

Previously Chief Product Officer at NUW, the world's first clothes-sharing app, and product leadership roles at myUpchar and The Good Glamm Group, across healthcare, e-commerce and consumer technology in India, the United States and the United Kingdom. Three markets, three operating cultures, three sets of users — each with their own definition of what "good" looks like.

MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Bath. The operator background means strategy survives contact with shipping; the HCI training means every engagement begins with the user, not the brief.

Selected press & speaking

A small record of elsewhere.

A short list of interviews, features and conference appearances. We do not seek press, but when we have something useful to say, we say it.

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

Profiled among Europe's standout women CPOs as Chief Product Officer of Nuw — the all-women-led sustainable fashion startup that went on to raise €1.3 million led by US fund 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 made by Anushree at the earliest stage. Each one represents a founder we believed in before most people had heard the pitch — not a curated portfolio with a single thesis, but a record of where we've put our 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

We answer every email.

Whether you are a founder pitching your earliest round, a company considering an engagement, or a journalist on a deadline — write to the right address and you will hear back, personally, within a few days.

Founders
invest@arvana.ae
Advisory
advisory@arvana.ae
General
hello@arvana.ae
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