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Shilpika Gautam
Shilpika Gautam is the Founder and CEO of Opna, a company on a mission to build the market infrastructure for the urgent age of energy, AI and climate action. A Guinness World Record-breaking climate advocate, serial entrepreneur, and seasoned financial, technology and capital markets executive, she is widely recognised for her leadership at the intersection of finance, technology, and climate action.
Through Opna, Shilpika is pioneering a new model of critical decarbonisation infrastructure that ensures the trillions flowing into energy, industry, and AI infrastructure also strengthen local grids, enable clean energy, and support equitable economic growth.
Shilpika is also known for her 3,000-kilometre source-to-sea expedition along the River Ganges, completed on a stand-up paddleboard, which earned her a Guinness World Record and helped raise global awareness of water and climate challenges.
Today, Shilpika is recognised as a leading voice for accelerating electrification and decarbonisation, while ensuring that the digital transformation driven by AI becomes a force for regeneration, not extraction. Her north star remains constant: to level the starting line for everyone, everywhere.
Opna
Opna builds the market infrastructure required to mobilise and finance mission-critical power equipment, supporting Europe’s acceleration toward energy security, electrification, and AI growth.
Working with leading renewable energy companies and AI data centres, Opna helps build diversified, resilient supply chains for critical long-lead-time equipment (e.g. HV transformers), enabling them to meet their growth and energisation goals. To do this, they provide a sophisticated, integrated offering: unique access to verified global suppliers, aggregating and de-risking demand and supply, and offering appropriate financing solutions.
Opna is backed by leading European investors, including VCs Atomico and Pale Blue Dot, as well as global angel investors from companies such as Eventbrite, Klarna, and Stripe. Opna has also been featured in Bloomberg, BBC, Forbes, Reuters, TechCrunch, WIRED, and Business Insider.