About Achiiv

Achiiv is the only platform helping first-time women founders translate their vision into viable, fundable and strong businesses by enabling them to build proven business models, create sane capital strategies and exercise sound financial stewardship for true startup success and longevity.

Why Achiiv

Women will soon make up more than half of all business owners just in the United States. They are starting businesses at four times the rate of the overall population. 

Women of color are responsible for 64% of all new women-owned businesses being created.

Yet, women-owned businesses contribute only 4.3% of the total revenue of all businesses. Male-owned firms generate eight times that number. 

There’s more.

Only one in eight women-owned business generates more than a million dollars in revenue, whereas two out of every three male-owned businesses generate over $1 million in annual revenue.

The untapped opportunity is appalling – and immense. 

Women don’t get access to the money, mindset and financial knowhow they need to pull off starting a new business successfully.

In addition, women often succumb to self-limiting beliefs and behaviors in financial matters.

So their businesses never achieve their full potential.

Or worse, never get off the ground.

We can do better.

Achiiv was founded to help women translate their vision into viable, fundable and strong businesses with the strong and effective founder-friendly culture of support that until now has only been available to men.

Enough. No longer.

About the Founder

Shubha K. Chakravarthy is a founder and finance and strategy executive. She has spent over 20 years in increasingly senior roles in insurance and banking, most recently with HSBC, where she was responsible for managing credit strategy & risk for a $100 billion+ subprime mortgage portfolio to liquidation in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis.

She has also held multiple strategy roles in leading insurance and management consulting companies, including Allstate Financial and McKinsey & Company.

She is the founder of Achiiv, focused on activating mission-driven women innovators building scalable and financially strong ventures. She hosts the Invisible Ink podcast, dedicated to helping ambitious women start, fund and scale innovative ventures.

Shubha is active in advancing financial access and enablement for women founders, and in helping them build strong and strategically viable startups. She is actively engaged in mentoring and supporting women founders in the startup ecosystem including the Wond’ry at Vanderbilt University and the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition.

She regularly presents on topics of advancing funding and capital access for women.

She has an MBA (High Honors) in Finance & Strategy from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and an MS (Honors) in Financial Markets from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She also qualified as a CPA.