Shu Nyatta

Managing Partner at Bicycle Capital

Speaker

Shu Nyatta is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Bicycle Capital, a new firm with $0.5B of capital, focused on investments in growth-stage technology companies in Latin America. From March 2015 until April 2022, Shu served in multiple senior investment roles at SoftBank Vision Fund and SoftBank Group International. He was most recently a Managing Partner at SoftBank Group International, where he launched and managed two separate funds - the SoftBank Latin America Fund (which he co-led and helped grow to over $7B in assets under management), and the Opportunity Fund for early-stage investments in US-based founders-of-color, which he led and helped transform into an evergreen fund within SoftBank.

Prior to these two relatively new funds, Shu oversaw special situations investing in companies and other funds for SoftBank Group International. In the first part of his SoftBank career, Shu was a founding Partner of SoftBank's Vision Fund. At the Vision Fund, Shu led investments in companies across sectors – from hospitality and ride-sharing to genomics, semiconductors and artificial intelligence; and around the world – from China to India to the UK and the US. Before his investing career, Shu was a Vice President in J.P. Morgan’s technology group in San Francisco, a founding member of a Saudi-based media startup, a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and a professional singer-songwriter.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard College, as well as a Master of Science in Anthropology with Distinction from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Shu was born and raised in Kenya and is a dual citizen of Kenya and the United States. Shu has served on over a dozen private company boards in his capacity as a SoftBank investor. He currently serves on three for-profit boards: Lemonade (NYSE: LMND), Kavak and Mottu. Shu also serves on the board of Endeavor Global - the leading global community of, by and for high-impact entrepreneurs, and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.