Pranav is an Associate at Lightspeed, where he partners with founders across consumer and fintech, with a particular focus on macro themes that are shaping Indiaʼs next economic leap – manufacturing, healthcare, and prosumer AI among them. His approach is grounded in a single belief: the founders building for India today are the ones shaping the global economy of tomorrow.

Pranav has always been wired for depth, developing a strong interest in software, machine learning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) during his time at IIT-Madras. But an appetite to zoom out, understand systems, markets, and the wider world, led him to management consulting, where he spent most of his time working in a field completely alien to him – financial services. “It was a deliberate step into the unfamiliar,ˮ he says. This drive to chase whatʼs unknown until it becomes known continues to fuel his approach to investing – the thrill of catching companies not when the outcome is obvious, but when itʼs all questions and very few answers. “Starting something of their own is the pinnacle of anyoneʼs  career. To witness that moment in real time, and to support it, is a privilege,ˮ he says. Heʼs especially compelled by founders who seem to distort the arc of reality. Those who pull others into their orbit through a rare combination of clarity, insight, and relentless execution.

Outside of work, Pranav finds joy in competitive quizzing, cinema, history, and music – ranging from Radiohead to Raghuvamsa Sudha by M.S. Subbulakshmi.