Shivani
Siroya

Shivani Siroya is the founder and CEO of Tala. Tala is the AI-native credit infrastructure that connects global capital to the global majority. Tala combines proprietary risk models with an expanding network of embedded capital and distribution partners to power credit access and provisioning at scale. Tala has delivered $8B in credit to more than 15 million customers globally across 8+ countries. Tala has raised more than half a billion dollars in investments and debt, backed by visionary investors including Kindred Ventures, Upstart, the Stellar Development Foundation, IVP, Revolution Growth, and more. The company has been named to the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies twice, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for ten years running.

In addition to serving on the boards of Airtm and Echoing Green, Shivani is an Aspen Institute Finance Leader Fellow, a WEF Young Global Leader, Senior TED Fellow, and Ashoka Fellow. She holds a M.P.H. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. Shivani grew up in New York and spent much of her childhood with family in Udaipur, Rajasthan. She currently resides in Los Angeles.