Sandesh Patnam

Sandesh Patnam is managing partner at Premji Invest, a $16 billion evergreen crossover fund headquartered in India but with offices in Menlo Park, California.

He has spent the last 25 years investing in “deep tech”—including autonomous-vehicle software and AI networking infrastructure, enterprise, consumer, health, and financial technology—and evaluating the underlying architecture and commercial viability of emerging hardware systems.

Premji's capital also supports the Azim Premji Foundation—one of the world's largest philanthropic endowments.