Mohanjit Jolly

Mohanjit Jolly is a founding Partner at Iron Pillar, an India-focused tech growth fund. He has over 20 years of operating and global venture capital experience. Before joining Iron Pillar, Mohanjit
was Managing Director at DFJ where he established and managed DFJ's India office between 2007 and 2012 before returning to Silicon Valley. Prior to DFJ, Mohanjit was a Managing Director at Garage Technology Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital fund. Mohanjit also served as a Vice President at Garage.com where he raised in excess of US$150 million for 25 early stage technology companies. Prior to Garage, Mohanjit was part of the strategic planning group at Mattel where he helped launch the Mattel / Intel joint venture, Intel Play. He also spent several years in both engineering and business development roles with Itek Optical Systems, a manufacturer of reconnaissance systems. Mohanjit has led Iron Pillar’s investments in Pando, Vyome, Uniphore, CoreStack, Ushur, Sibros and Jiffy.
 
Mohanjit earned his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, and has a BS and MS in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. Mohanjit serves on the Board of The Unreasonable Group and the SETI Institute. He is also an advisor to Pearson, and Accenture Open Innovation Group. Mohanjit lives in Silicon Valley with his wife, three kids and two dogs!