Sonia Gokhale is one of the few female founding general partners at a GCC-based VC platform and brings a rare actuarial science background to venture investing, using deep financial modeling and unit economics analysis when evaluating startups. She co-founded VentureSouq after starting as an angel investor with her husband, shifting from traditional assets into early-stage tech, and emphasizes capital efficiency by asking founders upfront what they'll do with investment money, how the company will grow, and how long the funding will last.