Mohanjit Jolly
Partner at Iron Pillar
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2016 - Current
Iron Pillar is a growth stage investor specializing in enterprise and consumer technology companies building their core products “from India for India and the world”. Since 2016, we have partnered closely with founders to guide their businesses from early growth stage to sustainable enterprises generating $100 million or more in revenue. Our approach is to collaborate with founders as a trusted partner, helping them build scalable global businesses with strong competitive advantage and long-term, compounding profitability. We provide strategic and operational support in key areas, including (1) business development assistance in India and global markets; (2) go-to-market strategy support, including access to C-level talent; and (3) facilitating access to long-term capital. Our portfolio includes leading companies such as BlueStone, Curefoods, FreshToHome, SEDEMAC, Servify, and Uniphore. With offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, Dubai, and Palo Alto, we are committed to helping Indian entrepreneurs build globally successful businesses. Additional information about Iron Pillar is available at https://ironpillarfund.com
Investor and Board Member
2023
Pando is a leading logistics SaaS company leveraging AI to create a unified platform to optimize and automate freight sourcing, transportation management, freight audit and payments. Pando's Fulfillment Cloud gives manufacturers, retailers and logistics companies a single pane of glass to collaborate with suppliers and customers as well as orchestrate and optimize their deliveries end-to-end. The impact is quantifiable and impactful -- improved service levels, reduced carbon footprint and lower overall freight costs. Pando serves teh world's largest brands that have significant scale and complexity.
Investor
2022
Investor and Board Member
2021
Ushur is an omni-channel AI-driven intelligent automation platform for insurance, healthcare and financial services companies to deeply engage with their customers. Their no-code "invisible app" automates workflows, understands the customers needs and helps resolves queries more effectively and efficiently. It's a pleasure to be a co-investor here alongside 8VC, Aflac Ventures and Third Point Ventures.
Ushur is a cloud-based AI company that automates service workflows in both the backend process and conversational interfaces.
Raised $92,000,000.00 from Iron Pillar, Third Point Ventures, 8VC, Pentland Ventures and Aflac Global Ventures.
Investor
2020
I am thrilled to have CoreStack as the first investment from Iron Pillar Fund II. CoreStack is the leader in AI-powered continuous and autonomous cloud governance, compliance and optimization - across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Their solution is the pre-requisite for any enterprise looking to embrace a hybrid or a cloud-only environment. No wonder the company has built a stellar business and reputation with global customers, including the US Government.
CoreStack delivers continuous and autonomous cloud governance for enterprises.
Raised $45,708,000.00 from Iron Pillar, Dallas Venture Capital and Avatar Growth Capital.
Investor
2019
Delighted to have invested in Uniphore, the leader in Conversational Service Automation. By leveraging the power of conversational AI, voice analytics and the cloud, Uniphore is bringing never before seen efficacy and efficiency to the massive Customer Support and Call Center industries globally. Voice is no longer the next interface...it is here and now!
Uniphore provides conversational AI tools for speech recognition, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis.
Raised $620,875,000.00 from GoldenArc Capital, Employee Stock Option Fund, March Capital, New Enterprise Associates and BAM Elevate.
Board Member
2019
Thrilled to join the Board of Vyome after leading their Series D in December, 2018. Vyome Therapeutics Inc. is an innovation-driven, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company based in Princeton New Jersey, which has novel platform technologies and a deep pipeline of novel drugs for antibiotic resistant acne, other opportunistic skin pathogens and anti-fungal agents in dermatology.
Member: Board Of Trustees
2021
Nothing unites humanity quite like the inspiration and aspiration of Space, and the quest for answering the question "are we alone in the universe?". I am thrilled to be part of an incredible group of people -- scientists, academics, entrepreneurs, and investors leveraging the SETI Institute platform to both "learn" (through multi-disciplinary research) and "teach" (through educational content, seminars, citizen science projects and outreach). Specifically, I am looking forward to building bridges between Silicon Valley (home of the SETI Institute) and the global south (India, SE Asia, Sub-saharan Africa, Latin America). Humbled and honored!
Board Member
2020
Delighted to join the Unreasonable Group (UG) BoD. Unreasonable is a phenomenal platform helping global tech-enabled growth stage social entrepreneurs tackling the world's toughest problems. UG has worked with over 350 entrepreneurs who have collectively raised over $10B in financing and impacting 1Billion+ lives! UG collaborates with some of the world's most socially conscious corporations including Barclays, Pearson, The Fossil Group and Accenture. In a world where negative news cycles seem to be the norm, Unreasonable is a shining light that focuses on all that is good, and especially on the entrepreneur who, despite all odds, push through with innovation and courage to make the world a better place. Upward and onward!
Unreasonable builds community between entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors to profitably solve pressing global problems.
Investor
2013 - 2019
Honored to have been associated with and been on the Board of Dlight, a poster child of a “do good and do well” company. From the time when DFJ seeded the company in 2007 to the Series C that I led until the time I handed over my responsibilities at the end of 2019, I am thrilled to have been associated with Dlight, which has brought, and continues to bring light into the previously unlit lives of over 100 million of people throughout the world. So proud!