Publication Features

Does anyone in the room look like you? - The Club, April 2024

How to make a career change: How this actuary became a venture capitalist - The Australian Financial Review, March 2024

So, you’re a woman of colour in finance? Here is some advice on how to break through any barriers you might be facing - Missing Perspectives, December 2023

'Just beginning': Insurtech Australia panelists say sector has only scratched surface - Insurance News, February 2022

Eight lessons from change-making women on how to have a positive impact - Women’s Agenda, May 2021

Do women-owned ventures need more female investors? Solai Valliappan thinks so - Women’s Agenda, April 2021

Solai’s journey as an angel investor - Echo Chamber Escape, May 2020

Young women with maths or science training will always have jobs in an unpredictable future - The Advocate, September 2017

AMSI Careers Profile - Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, September 2017

Big data in insurance and its impact on the actuarial profession - Actuaries Institute General Insurance Seminar, November 2014

Videos / Film

What Investors Look For - Startup Palette Show, July 2023

Women’s Work - Episode One: Women’s Worry - Sydney Women’s Fund, March 2021

Women’s Work - Episode Two: Women’s Worth - Sydney Women’s Fund, March 2021

Women’s Work - Episode Three: Women’s World - Sydney Women’s Fund, May 2021

Women’s Work - Episode Four: Women’s Wealth - Sydney Women’s Fund, October 2021

Climbing with Maths - Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, September 2018

Young Actuaries Conference - Plenary 2: Knowledge Sharing - Actuaries Institute, May 2018

Podcasts

Lessons from Investing in Underrepresented Groups to Successful Exits - Unicorn Talks, July 2024

From Corporate to VC: Embracing purposeful entrepreneurship - PurposeCast - Purposeek Coaching, May 2024

How to engage investors & why diversity in startups is important - Startup Palette Show, July 2023

Startup Yoga x Solai Valliappan - Startup Yoga with Bharati, February 2023

Episode 3: Solai Valliappan - The Chicken Coop - UNSW Co-op Society, May 2022

Risk and reward – investing in start-ups and championing female founders - What She Did Next, March 2021

Young Actuaries Conference 2018 - Actuaries Institute Podcast, May 2018