Is fundraising about the pitch deck or the person? ft. Hemant Godhwani
What does human leadership look like in a world shaped by pressure, performance, and increasingly powerful technology? In this episode of The Future Is Human, host Ella McCann-Tomlin sits down with Hemant Godhwani, VP of Corporate Finance, Corporate Development, Investor Relations, and Treasury at Mews, to discuss why relationships remain irreplaceable in high-stakes fundraising, how to build authenticity while selling, and why structure matters as startups scale.
What does human leadership look like in a world shaped by pressure, performance, and increasingly powerful technology? In this episode of The Future Is Human, host Ella McCann-Tomlin sits down with Hemant Godhwani, VP of Corporate Finance, Corporate Development, Investor Relations, and Treasury at Mews, to discuss why relationships remain irreplaceable in high-stakes fundraising, how to build authenticity while selling, and why structure matters as startups scale.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to build resilience through adversity
- The win-win framework for sustainable high-performance cultures
- How investor relationships take years to develop through consistent updates, personal connection, and genuine problem-solving support
- Why selling and transparency are not contradictory
- How to develop authenticity as a non-naturally extroverted leader
Hemant Godhwani is VP of Corporate Finance, Corporate Development, Investor Relations, and Treasury at Mews, bringing over a decade of investment banking experience from JPMorgan, where he executed complex transactions across Europe, the US, and Asia Pacific. With expertise spanning fundraising, investor relations, capital allocation, M&A strategy, and IPO readiness, Hemant demonstrates how human relationships and trust remain irreplaceable in high-stakes finance and tech scaling.
Tune in to discover why creativity, exploration and serendipity are the one thing no machine can replicate.