Divya Shah is a research-led operator with six years across deep tech startups, spanning engineering, business strategy, and financial analysis. He has worked across aerospace defense, space tech, and SaaS, moving between technical depth and commercial framing to produce outputs that drive decisions.
Most recently, as Founder's Associate at PAVE Space SA, He owned end-to-end grant applications, market research, and investor-facing business cases for a space propulsion startup in Switzerland.
At NewSpace Research and Technologies, He led feasibility and competitive research for Indian Armed Forces programs. His findings shaped the CEO's go/no-go decisions, and the team won the Mehra Baba Prize competition in 2020.
At CleverConnect, he built financial models that identified multi-million euro savings and collaborated with C-suite on investor presentations, contributing to the company reaching Adjusted EBITDA breakeven.
