Pankaj Malhotra

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Investment Analyst at Riverbend Growth · Developer infrastructure

Riverbend Growth
Kolkata, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
1+ years experience
IIT Kanpur
English, Hindi, Bengali
Investing
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Overview

Investment Analyst at Riverbend Growth, backing developer infrastructure companies. Backed 24 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with developer tools and venture capital. I write short fiction no one reads.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in developer infrastructure
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on venture capital
  • Questions about developer infrastructure
Please don't message about
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Generic networking requests

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Skills
developer toolsventure capitalopen source
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into seed developer infrastructure in Europe

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Developer infrastructure, B2B SaaS
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Typically lead or co-lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Kolkata, Indiaopen sourcedeveloper toolsventure capital
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Experience

  1. Investment Analyst
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Riverbend Growth · 1 yr · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Backed 44 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 7 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.

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Education

  1. IIT Kanpur
    B.Tech, Finance
    2021 - 2025

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