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Manjot Pahwa has been selected to spearhead Premji Invest’s early stage investments in technology across SaaS and enterprise markets. She was the former vice president of Lightspeed India from March 2022 to January 2024.
Premji Invest’s managing partner Sandesh Patnam in a LinkedIn post said, “This journey gives Manjot a unique ability to connect with founders deeply in product and technology and be an amazing thought partner to them as they build enduring businesses.”
In her seven years of career at Google, Manjot worked as an SRE and software engineer, leading core infrastructure teams serving billions of users, building and scaling Google Photos, and then as a product manager for Google’s Kubernetes and Network Security teams.
The development comes after Premji invested capital into Wealthtech startup Dezerv last month. Before that, he invested in the tech startup KreditBee in March.
In April, it was reported by media that the family office is planning to boost its bets on artificial intelligence companies and the firm has been developing an AI quant model for its public market investments as well. Premji established a family office in 2006 and has donated a significant portion of his wealth to humanitarian causes in India.
Its investment portfolio includes more than 50 companies such as the Sleep Company, Ikigai Labs, Mintifi, SpotDraft, Navam and Shubham Housing Development Finance Company, Lenskart, FirstCry, and Signifyd Icertis, among others.
