Kirti Priya Puri

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Partner, Pinecrest Growth - climate tech · energy · venture capital

Pinecrest Growth
New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
ISB Hyderabad
English, Hindi
Investing
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Overview

21 years around startups; now investing in climate. Backed 32 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: EY and Razorpay. Most at home with energy and climate tech.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in embedded systems
  • Working sessions on venture capital
  • Questions about embedded systems
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Offshore staffing offers

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
hardwareventure capitalenergyclimate tech
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $2M cheques into Series A climate in India

Cheque size
$2M
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Embedded systems, fintech
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Usually the first cheque in. We reply to every founder.

New Delhi, India · remote OKclimate techhardwareenergy
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Experience

  1. Partner
    Mar 2026 - Present
    Pinecrest Growth · 7 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Grew the firmware team from 3 to 18 engineers.
    • Moved 72% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Principal Product Manager
    Aug 2023 - Mar 2026
    EY · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 30 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
  3. Director of Product
    Dec 2020 - Aug 2023
    Razorpay · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Launched the lending product in 12 markets.
  4. Senior Product Manager
    Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
    BrowserStack · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new AI products customers from 17 days to 2.
  5. Senior Product Manager
    Feb 2017 - Nov 2018
    PhonePe · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Launched the developer product in 13 markets.

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Education

  1. ISB Hyderabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2008 - 2010
  2. Jadavpur University
    B.E., Finance
    2001 - 2005

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