Mr Mohanjit Jolly has been working with and investing in technology start-ups in the US and India for over 20 years. He is one of the few Venture Capitalists who has been actively on the ground as a partner in both India and Silicon Valley. Mohanjit has led Iron Pillar’s investments in Sibros, Jiffy, Uniphore, Vyome, Ushur, Pando and CoreStack.

Before co-founding Iron Pillar in 2016, a growth capital investor specializing in mid-stage technology companies that are “Built from India for the world”, Mohanjit served as a Partner and Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) for 9 years, establishing their India operations, overseeing their India venture portfolio and coordinating business development efforts with Fortune 500 companies for DFJ’s global portfolio. Prior to this, he was a Partner at Garage Technology Ventures, a Silicon Valley seed stage VC firm. His early years in California saw him help launch ViaSpace, a technology incubator in conjunction with Caltech and JPL and Intel Play, a joint venture between Mattel and Intel. He also worked at Itek Optical Systems, a Boston based manufacturer of high-resolution reconnaissance systems.

Mohanjit serves on the non-profit Boards of The Unreasonable Group and The SETI Institute.

Mohanjit earned his MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA and a B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).