I hope to have the privilege of partnering with founders who are driven by a deep sense of purpose, who combine big ideas with relentless execution and have the ambition to reshape entire industries. Founders who are bold enough to question the norm and committed enough to build something meaningful, not just for today, but for the future will redefine society as we know it and I hope to be a part of the journey.
Manjot Pahwa leads Premji Invest’s early-stage practice in India, focusing on software and consumer.
Manjot started her career at at Google as a backend engineer where she built technical infrastructure. She led videos optimization projects to help launch first version of Google Photos app. She eventually became became a Product manager and joined Google Cloud heading Kubernetes networking.
After Google, she had a stint as a founder of a Machine learning infrastructure startup building an experimentat tracking platform. Post her entrepreneurial journey, she joined Stripe as a Product Manager and was eventually the head of Stripe in India. She scaled the India site from 15 to 100+ and led key compliance projects for obtaining the payments license making Stripe one of the first fintechs to do so in India. She also built out the overall strategy as well as helped with an acquisition in the region.
Prior to PI, Manjot was an early-stage investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners in India, involved in seed and series A investments in ventures across enterprise, consumer, healthcare SaaS and infrastructure.
She holds an B.E. from NSIT Delhi. Born in New Delhi and having spent time in the bay area right after university, Manjot’s journey has been diverse. Beyond work, Manjot enjoys reading, running and is a budding aerialist.