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Premji Invest
Legal namestring
PI Investment Advisory LLP
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premjiinvest.com
Company typeenum
Private
Founded yearint
2006
Operating statusenum
Operating
Ownership categoryenum
Headcount rangeband
101–250
akta.pro rankint
HeadquartersBangalore, India
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Bangalore
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India
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Asia
Markets served

Serves global market

Offices2 records

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City, Country, Type, Description, Source

Keyword5 values
private equity investment, venture capital investment, growth equity capital, crossover public-private investing, evergreen capital fund
Industry2 codes
1Thematic / Sector-Focused Multi-Manager Platforms
CodeFSANAGAHPrimaryYes
2Regional / Country-Focused Multi-Manager Platforms
CodeFSANAGAIPrimaryNo
NAICS code3 codes
  • Portfolio Management and Investment Advice523940
  • Portfolio Management and Investment Advice52394
  • Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities523
SIC code1 code
  • Investment Advice6282
Product category
Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment
Social media profiles2 records
GTM motion2 records

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Type, Description, Source

Revenue model2 records
1Capital Appreciation — Private Markets
TypeOthers
Description

Returns generated from unrealized and realized gains on private equity investments across all stages (seed, early, growth, buyout). As an evergreen fund, Premji Invest holds positions for extended periods, compounding capital and returning proceeds to support the Azim Premji Foundation's philanthropic work in underserved communities.

2Capital Appreciation — Public Markets
TypeOthers
Description

Returns from publicly listed equity positions held as part of the crossover strategy. The firm maintains dual exposure across private and public markets, with flexibility to move between them as opportunities and valuations evolve.

Marketing channels4 records

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Title, Type, Stage, Description, Source

Distribution channels2 records

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Title, Type, Scope, Target buyer, Description, Source

Cost components5 values
Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
GTM typeB2B
B2B
Offering typeServices
Services
Core offering1 text field

Premji Invest provides patient equity capital through a unified private and public investment platform, deploying funds across early-stage venture, growth equity, and buyout stages. The firm targets financial services, technology, consumer, industrials, and healthcare sectors across the US and India, with investment returns funding the Azim Premji Foundation's philanthropic work.

Differentiator
Functional benefit
Problem solved
Quantifiable outcome1 of 5 values shown
  • 12 successful portfolio company IPOs (including NSE, IEX, Anaplan, Coupa, Avalara, CrowdStrike, Epic Systems, Applied Intuition, Amber, and others)
+4 more records
Product overview1 text field

Premji Invest is an investment firm offering a unified investment platform spanning private and public markets. The firm deploys capital through various investment stages including early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts. Returns generated by Premji Invest primarily support the work of Azim Premji Foundation, a non-profit focused on improving lives of the underserved and underprivileged in society. The firm manages $15B+ in evergreen capital and has made 165+ total investments.

Product and service1 record
1Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Services
CategoryInvestment Management
Description

Equity capital deployment across early-stage, growth, and buyout stages in private and public markets, targeting financial services, technology, consumer, industrials, and healthcare sectors globally. Intended for founders and management teams of high-growth companies seeking patient capital and strategic partnership; returns support the Azim Premji Foundation.

Scale indicator7 records

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Type, Value, Description, Source

Partnership1 partner
1Azim Premji Foundation
Strategic tierFlagship / CoreTypeOthers
Description

The Azim Premji Foundation is the affiliated philanthropic organization supported by Premji Invest's investment returns. Returns from Premji Invest's investment activities fund the Azim Premji Foundation's work in education and livelihood for underserved communities in India. This affiliation provides Premji Invest with distinctive reputational credibility and founder alignment, as the fund's purpose is inherently tied to long-term societal benefit rather than purely financial returns.

Recent move6 records

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Date, Type, Title, Description, Source

Expansion highlight5 records

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Peers10 records
1Coatue Management
TypeDirect peer
Description

Crossover public/private technology investor with dedicated late-stage and venture arms — a comparable crossover platform executing large AI and enterprise-software rounds alongside Premji Invest.

2Mayfield Fund
TypeDirect peer
Description

Multi-stage venture firm with deep India and enterprise-software presence; recurring co-investor with Premji Invest across multiple Indian and US rounds — a directly comparable early/growth-stage peer.

3Insight Partners
TypeDirect peer
Description

Large-scale software and technology growth-investor (ScaleUp and Velocity strategies) that competes with Premji Invest for late-stage enterprise/AI opportunities and operates a similar multi-stage, software-tilted mandate.

4Warburg Pincus
TypeBroad incumbent
Description

Global growth investor with a long-running platform comparable in stage breadth and sector diversification — relevant incumbent peer for the growth-equity sleeve of Premji Invest's mandate.

5General Atlantic
TypeDirect peer
Description

Global growth-equity firm investing across stages and geographies, with co-investment history alongside Premji Invest in Anaplan and other enterprise names — closely comparable mandate and stage focus.

6Silver Lake
TypeBroad incumbent
Description

Established large-cap technology crossover investor; broader portfolio and longer history make it a broad incumbent peer for Premji Invest's late-stage tech activity.

7Khosla Ventures
TypeDirect peer
Description

Multi-stage venture investor with strong AI and enterprise-software tilt, recurring co-investor with Premji Invest (e.g., Rhoda AI, Pramaana Labs) — directly comparable early/growth-stage portfolio.

8Tiger Global Management
TypeDirect peer
Description

Multi-stage crossover investor that deploys large checks across venture, growth, and public markets globally with a strong AI/enterprise tilt — directly comparable to Premji Invest's crossover mandate and co-investment footprint (including the joint Series A in Upscale AI).

9Lightspeed Venture Partners
TypeDirect peer
Description

Multi-stage global venture firm with strong India/enterprise presence — recurring co-investor with Premji Invest in Emversity, Weaver Services, and others, making it a directly comparable multi-stage peer.

10Sequoia Capital / Peak XV Partners
TypeDirect peer
Description

Multi-stage venture and growth investor with deep India and global coverage; a frequent co-investor with Premji Invest (e.g., DOSS Series B) and a directly comparable India/global multi-stage platform.

Market position
Strengths5 records

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Weaknesses5 records

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Competitive moat5 records

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Key risks6 records

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Key highlights7 records

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Customer concentration

Classification, Details

Named customers22 records

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Segment5 records

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Ideal customer profile4 records

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Profile, Firmographic size, Sales motion, Sales cycle length, Buying structure, Purchase trigger, Buyer persona, Geography, Industry vertical, Primary use case, Description, Pain points, Evidence proof points, Target buyer

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Profiles10 records

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Investors

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M&A1 record

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Investment158 records

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Name, Round, Announced date, Lead investor, Website, News

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Premji Invest

Private Equity and Venture Capital Investmentpremjiinvest.com

Premji Invest firmographics

Firmographics
Name
Premji Invest
Legal name
PI Investment Advisory LLP
Website
https://premjiinvest.com
Company type
Private
Founded year
2006
Operating status
Operating
Headcount range
101–250 employees
Ownership category
akta.pro rank

Premji Invest industry classification

Industry
Product category
Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment
NAICS
Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (52394), Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523)
SIC
Investment Advice (6282)
akta.pro primary industry
Thematic / Sector-Focused Multi-Manager Platforms (FSANAGAH)
akta.pro secondary industry
Regional / Country-Focused Multi-Manager Platforms (FSANAGAI)

Keywords

  • Private equity investment
  • Venture capital investment
  • Growth equity capital
  • Crossover public-private investing
  • Evergreen capital fund

Where Premji Invest is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city
Bangalore
HQ country
India
HQ region
Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

Premji Invest business model

Business model
GTM type
B2B
Offering type
Services
Cost components
Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

  1. Capital Appreciation — Private Markets: Returns generated from unrealized and realized gains on private equity investments across all stages (seed, early, growth, buyout). As an evergreen fund, Premji Invest holds positions for extended periods, compounding capital and returning proceeds to support the Azim Premji Foundation's philanthropic work in underserved communities.
  2. Capital Appreciation — Public Markets: Returns from publicly listed equity positions held as part of the crossover strategy. The firm maintains dual exposure across private and public markets, with flexibility to move between them as opportunities and valuations evolve.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Premji Invest product offering

Product offering

Core offering

Premji Invest provides patient equity capital through a unified private and public investment platform, deploying funds across early-stage venture, growth equity, and buyout stages. The firm targets financial services, technology, consumer, industrials, and healthcare sectors across the US and India, with investment returns funding the Azim Premji Foundation's philanthropic work.

Product overview

Premji Invest is an investment firm offering a unified investment platform spanning private and public markets. The firm deploys capital through various investment stages including early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts. Returns generated by Premji Invest primarily support the work of Azim Premji Foundation, a non-profit focused on improving lives of the underserved and underprivileged in society. The firm manages $15B+ in evergreen capital and has made 165+ total investments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

  • Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Services Equity capital deployment across early-stage, growth, and buyout stages in private and public markets, targeting financial services, technology, consumer, industrials, and healthcare sectors globally. Intended for founders and management teams of high-growth companies seeking patient capital and strategic partnership; returns support the Azim Premji Foundation.

Quantifiable outcome

  • 12 successful portfolio company IPOs (including NSE, IEX, Anaplan, Coupa, Avalara, CrowdStrike, Epic Systems, Applied Intuition, Amber, and others)
  • +4 more outcomes

Companies that use Premji Invest

Customer profile

Named customers22 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Premji Invest technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API
No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Premji Invest partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

  • Azim Premji Foundationflagship / coreOthersThe Azim Premji Foundation is the affiliated philanthropic organization supported by Premji Invest's investment returns. Returns from Premji Invest's investment activities fund the Azim Premji Foundation's work in education and livelihood for underserved communities in India. This affiliation provides Premji Invest with distinctive reputational credibility and founder alignment, as the fund's purpose is inherently tied to long-term societal benefit rather than purely financial returns.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Premji Invest competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

  • Coatue Management: Crossover public/private technology investor with dedicated late-stage and venture arms — a comparable crossover platform executing large AI and enterprise-software rounds alongside Premji Invest.
  • Mayfield Fund: Multi-stage venture firm with deep India and enterprise-software presence; recurring co-investor with Premji Invest across multiple Indian and US rounds — a directly comparable early/growth-stage peer.
  • Insight Partners: Large-scale software and technology growth-investor (ScaleUp and Velocity strategies) that competes with Premji Invest for late-stage enterprise/AI opportunities and operates a similar multi-stage, software-tilted mandate.
  • General Atlantic: Global growth-equity firm investing across stages and geographies, with co-investment history alongside Premji Invest in Anaplan and other enterprise names — closely comparable mandate and stage focus.
  • Khosla Ventures: Multi-stage venture investor with strong AI and enterprise-software tilt, recurring co-investor with Premji Invest (e.g., Rhoda AI, Pramaana Labs) — directly comparable early/growth-stage portfolio.
  • Tiger Global Management: Multi-stage crossover investor that deploys large checks across venture, growth, and public markets globally with a strong AI/enterprise tilt — directly comparable to Premji Invest's crossover mandate and co-investment footprint (including the joint Series A in Upscale AI).
  • Lightspeed Venture Partners: Multi-stage global venture firm with strong India/enterprise presence — recurring co-investor with Premji Invest in Emversity, Weaver Services, and others, making it a directly comparable multi-stage peer.
  • Sequoia Capital / Peak XV Partners: Multi-stage venture and growth investor with deep India and global coverage; a frequent co-investor with Premji Invest (e.g., DOSS Series B) and a directly comparable India/global multi-stage platform.

Broad incumbents

  • Warburg Pincus: Global growth investor with a long-running platform comparable in stage breadth and sector diversification — relevant incumbent peer for the growth-equity sleeve of Premji Invest's mandate.
  • Silver Lake: Established large-cap technology crossover investor; broader portfolio and longer history make it a broad incumbent peer for Premji Invest's late-stage tech activity.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Premji Invest social profiles

Digital presence

Premji Invest financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Premji Invest leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Premji Invest funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Premji Invest M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A1 record

Investments158 records

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Premji Invest

What does Premji Invest do?

Premji Invest provides patient equity capital through a unified private and public investment platform, deploying funds across early-stage venture, growth equity, and buyout stages. The firm targets financial services, technology, consumer, industrials, and healthcare sectors across the US and India, with investment returns funding the Azim Premji Foundation's philanthropic work.

Is Premji Invest a public or private company?

Premji Invest is a private company. It is classified as nonprofit foundation owned and is currently operating.

When was Premji Invest founded?

Premji Invest was founded in 2006. It employs 101 to 250 people.

Where is Premji Invest based?

Premji Invest is headquartered in Bangalore, India, in the Asia region.

How does Premji Invest make money?

Two revenue lines are on record. Capital Appreciation — Private Markets are the primary driver. The others are capital Appreciation — Public Markets.

Who are Premji Invest's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are Coatue Management, Mayfield Fund, Insight Partners, General Atlantic, Khosla Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital / Peak XV Partners. Broad incumbents are Warburg Pincus and Silver Lake.

Does Premji Invest have an API?

No public API is recorded for Premji Invest.

What industry is Premji Invest in?

Premji Invest's product category is Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment. Its primary akta.pro industry code is FSANAGAH, Thematic / Sector-Focused Multi-Manager Platforms, with a secondary code of FSANAGAI, Regional / Country-Focused Multi-Manager Platforms. Its NAICS code is 523940 and its SIC code is 6282.

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The SaaS NewsClockwork.io Raises $31M in FundingClockwork.io raised $31 million in funding, co-led by Premji Invest, Wing Venture Capital, and Seligman Ventures, bringing total funding to $73 million. The Palo Alto-based AI fault-tolerance software company will use the capital to accelerate its rollout across training, inference, and reinforcement learning environments and expand enterprise adoption.Third NewsClockwork.io Secures $31 Million to Enhance AI Workload Resilience at Leading Tech FirmsClockwork.io raised $31 million in funding to enhance fault-tolerance software for AI workloads, with co-led investment from Premji Invest, Wing Venture Capital, and Seligman Ventures. The company's LinkPass and TorchPass tools help prevent GPU downtime, and LinkedIn has adopted the solution, saving tens of thousands of GPU hours monthly.FinSMEsClockwork.io Raises $31M in FundingClockwork.io, a Palo Alto-based fault-tolerance software provider for AI workloads, raised $31M in funding co-led by Premji Invest, Wing Venture Capital, and Seligman Ventures. The round brings total funding to $73M, which the company will use to expand enterprise adoption and scale delivery through cloud partners.Business News TodayPremji Invest to take platform approach, seek greater ownership in portfolio companies- Moneycontrol.comPremji Invest is shifting from traditional venture capital to taking greater ownership in portfolio companies, including early bets and building businesses from scratch. It is investing about $25 million in Anaira AI, a startup by Sanjeev Srinivasan, and will also back former employees. The strategy balances AI bets with infrastructure and import-substitution investments.SiliconANGLEScale-up interconnect startup CScale launches with $188M in fundingCScale, an optical interconnect startup for data centers, launched with $188 million in funding, mostly from a Series C round co-led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and Premji Invest. The company's technology links thousands of accelerators across racks, aiming to improve AI cluster performance and reliability.ReutersCScale raises $145 million for AI networking, with backing from Nvidia and IntelCScale raised $145 million in a funding round led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and Premji Invest. The company has raised $188 million to date and plans to ship its AI networking chips by 2028. The funding supports replacing copper cables with optical connections in data center servers.FinSMEsCScale Raises $145M in Series C FundingCScale, a developer of optical interconnect technology for AI systems, raised $145M in Series C financing co-led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and Premji Invest. The round brings total funding to $188M, which the company will use to expand operations and development efforts.BitlyCScale comes out of stealth with $145M to build interconnect for gigawatt-scale AICScale exited stealth and announced $145 million in Series C funding to develop optical interconnect for gigawatt-scale AI. The round brings total funding to $188 million, co-led by Atreides Management and Premji Invest, with Nvidia and Intel Capital as strategic investors. The company aims to build reliable, low-latency connections for AI scale-up domains.GamesBeatCScale comes out of stealth with $145M to build interconnect for gigawatt-scale AICScale exited stealth and announced $145 million in Series C funding to develop optical interconnect for gigawatt-scale AI. The round brings total funding to $188 million, co-led by Atreides Management and Premji Invest, with Nvidia and Intel Capital as strategic investors. The company aims to build reliable, low-latency connections for AI scale-up domains.VenturecapitalCScale Secures $145M Series C to Accelerate AI Optical InterconnectsCScale raised $145M in a Series C led by Atreides, Valor, and Premji Invest, with strategic support from NVIDIA and Intel Capital. The funding boosts its AI optical interconnect roadmap and brings total funding to $188M.