Purvi Gandhi

Purvi Gandhi is a venture capital expert with over twenty-five years’ experience doing deals in the U.S. and Asia in private equity and venture capital. She was CFO and Investment Committee member at a spinout of JP Morgan called H&Q Asia Pacific where she co-led the fundraising for $2.5B USD and ultimately her firm managed $3.5B USD.  The IFC was an LP and co-investor in two H & Q funds Purvi managed in China and Korea that bought and turned around distressed assets through debt and equity financing. Purvi worked closely with a division at the World Bank on developing an Indian distressed asset fund. In her recent firms, Purvi raised significant external capital to double down investing in the top portfolio companies which became a significant driver of strong net returns. Her efforts led her prior firm to invest early, in Stripe, in late 2016.

More recently, Purvi has also invested in some clean tech plays, such as Droneseed, reforestation to achieve carbon removal goals (https://droneseed.com); OneShot.earth: Web-3 powered technology platform to capture voluntary carbon credits for enterprises (https://oneshot.earth); Ample, an EV charging company (https://ample.com); Boom, trying to make air travel cheaper and faster while achieving net zero carbon via design, materials, and use of 100% SAF (https://boomsupersonic.com); and Draft Ventures, investors in clean ag-tech, consumer clean-tech, industrial clean-tech (https://draftvc.com).

She has worked in investment banking, private equity, and Silicon Valley venture capital, sourcing thousands of deals and making strategic investments in hundreds of deals. She was also CFO of a healthcare informatics company that was acquired by a public company.  Purvi has extensive financial and operational experience. She remains an active businessperson in her native India.

Purvi is passionate about bridging the education and opportunity gap for young girls in rural areas of the world. In addition to serving on the Board of Girl in Yellow Foundation, which provides young girls access to high school education, Purvi donates a portion of her carried interest to such causes.