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Dr. Silvia Mah is a founding partner of Ad Astra Ventures, that aims to "get to even" for high achieving women. Focused on "Impact with Integrity", Silvia is the founder & Chairwoman of Stella Labs, an accelerator for women-owned businesses; founding member of Stella Angels, a female angel investment group; Investment Committee member of Next Wave Impact, a social impact venture fund; and an angel investor to over 120+ startups who have diverse founders on the leadership team. Dr. Mah is most recently, the new Director of Innovation at Biola University focus on accelerating social innovation in the region. Dr. Mah’s own success includes producing a globally-recognized podcast, She Invests!, highlighting the investment journeys of female angel investors and venture capitalists & the inaugural Fund Manager for the San Diego Angel Conference Fund I, a new angel fund to activate regional capital from aspiring and existing angel investors.

10/17/2026

Students are BUILDING businesses at Biola University. Rooted Beauty is a skincare brand created by one of our Biola Crowell School of Business freshman students that honors clean ingredients.

THIS CREAM is made from high quality beef tallow, whipped to perfection with a sweet vanilla smell. Who doesn’t want that on your face???? Well, for me, my under eye puffiness is GONE with this product and I wear it daily.

The back story: the student came with her parents to preview day at Crowell school of business in spring of last year. I didn’t know she made the decision to come to Biola because of connecting with me and her love of entrepreneurship. Now she is an entrepreneurship major, and as the lead of the entrepreneurship concentration, I am elated, honored, blessed to have her as a student and for her to come to my office to give me one of her products, priceless.

LOVE ❤️ love my students Biola University - God is soooo soooo good - and Jesus is why we connect so closely and learn so deeply in class and in experiences on campus.

10/16/2026

You ready for WVS ? Get your tickets today with my … now … 20% off code … SILVIA … it’s a total vibe TO BE BOLD … TO INVEST … TO BUILD … are you going? www.womensventuresummit.org or int he link in my bio CLICK IT !

10/13/2026

BOLD - meets shopping 🛍️- at Nordstrom x Edward Jones lead by Skyler McCurine. That’s how women lead from positions of power and beauty - knowing how to dress and what to wear to an event like WOMENS VENTURE SUMMIT Women’s Venture Summit - so join us this Thursday, Oct 15, 6-8 pm at Fashion valley to get your FIT locked in for WVS in just 3 weeks. Gain night on what looks GREAT on you by stylists and your own community who will show up. We are limiting it to 25 women so BE THERE! Link in bio 🔗👆🏽

10/13/2026

I choose kindness, grace, faithfulness, joy, love, peace, patience, goodness, gentleness and self-control in all I do, from to to . All of the fruits 🍉 🍇🍓🍎🍊🍋🍍🍑🍏 of the spirit (Gal 5:22-23)

10/10/2026

The VIBE is WVS ! Join us ! Women’s Venture Summit

10/06/2026

One of my favorite nights - BMC time! My Entrepreneurship Practicum students creating their businesses in real time with real feedback Biola University Office of Innovation coworking space before going out to do customer discovery 💡”out of the building” - from fashion brands 👚to travel apps 🧳 to solving the circular economy 👖 to healthy food biz 🥗 to affordable prescriptions 💊 to trafficking NGO 🙏🏽to photo booths📸, we got it all - so immensely proud of these students Biola Crowell School of Business - they are blessing their future customers with real impactful solutions. BRAVO 🤩 God is so so good. Biola University

06/03/2026

Love .. I’m not soft … it’s strategy in business .. inspired by the keynote at San Diego Angel Conference .. so had to write about it in my newest article - see link 🔗 in bio to subscribe & read.

06/02/2026

We have to .. get out there and 🇺🇸

05/30/2026

She won! My Village Innovations won $35K angel investment yesterday & Audience Choice (2 RT tickets sponsored by Alaska Airlines ) at SDSU San Diego Angel Conference. HUGE congrats to co-founders Andrea (Annie) Munoz (CEO) and Alfonso Muñoz (COO).

This journey through our ecosystem for MVI is a testament of excellent founder-market fit, patented exceptional transformational product, team coachability, and determination/grit by all involved. Well done! MVI won 🥇 Southwest regional Women’s Fast Pitch, then won 🥇 Women’s Venture Summit in Sept 2025.

Then, became a The Brink SBDC client for ongoing pitch prep and investor relations support. WON $100K in Jan 2026 through a state-funded San Diego & Imperial SBDC Network program via California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA) thx to Benton Moore & Daniel Fitzgerald & Stephanie L. Garcia & Julie Clowes.

Then, went on to apply for SDAC, got top 6 and then won yesterday runner up with a $35K investment . Last week at TechCon SoCal she won 🏅$25K investment from Emmeline Ventures and won 🏆audience choice. What traction! AND so many invetsir convos and community events in between … it truly does takes a village.

I’m beyond proud of this founding team who are passionate about changing the 180 yr old status quo of OB GYN exams with a soft, comfortable, disposable medical device. BRAVO!

05/27/2026

🌺 I’m back… on Substack. But this time, more boldly in my calling than ever before.

And here’s the realization that changed everything for me:

The thing you and others have viewed as your weakness might actually be your CALLING staring directly at you.

✨ Your softness
✨ Your empathy
✨ Your joy
✨ Your multi-lane mind
✨ Your creativity
✨ Your faith
✨ Your ability to encourage others relentlessly
✨ Your instinct to build community
✨ Your ability to see potential in people before anyone else does

Maybe those things are not distractions from your purpose.

Maybe they ARE the purpose.

I wrote something deeply personal:
✨ Called, Not Scattered: A Revival of Joy, Reclaiming My Calling, and Choosing Human Flourishing ✨

For years, I thought my path looked too layered:
➡️ scientist
➡️ entrepreneur
➡️ investor
➡️ ecosystem builder
➡️ professor
➡️ mentor
➡️ strategist
➡️ prayer warrior

But God does not waste experiences.

Every founder conversation.
Every portfolio company.
Every failure.
Every TEDx stage.
Every season where I questioned myself.

Preparation.

I can now clearly see that God was weaving together every thread of my life into a calling centered around servant leadership, innovation, investing in people, and building communities rooted in trust, goodness, purpose, and hope.

I fully reject the narrative that kindness is weakness in business.

✨ Joy is strategy
✨ Trust is currency
✨ Flourishing is foundational to innovation

And maybe you’re not scattered either.

Maybe you’re being prepared for exactly what God has called you to do.

🎙️ Also — for the first time, I recorded the article as audio on my Substack: a 17-minute mini podcast/reflection for your drive, walk, prayer time, or quiet moment.

🔗 Link in bio to read, listen, and subscribe.

For such a time as this.

Con cariño, fe y propósito,
Dr. SilvMah 🌺
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