Punit Chiniwalla

Class

KF 13

Current Firm

Founders Circle Capital

Location

United States

Education

Punit holds a BS in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in chemical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis work resulted in multiple journal publications and established the basis of a product that today has a presence in the electronic materials market. Punit earned his MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan as a Frankel Fellow and Mondry Scholar.

Professional

Punit is an experienced investor with deep expertise across AI, enterprise infrastructure, data, application layers, physical AI and frontier tech; PhD product experience at IBM Watson Labs; Investor in 40+ companies with extensive board experience.

Current: Partner/Advisor to Founder Circle Capital, Partner, GHC Partners
Past: Senior Managing Director, HPE Pathfinder (managed the team and ultimate lift out of 27 companies in 2025); Director of Corporate Development at AWS (led M&A and direct investments across AI and cloud infrastructure); Managing Director at Singtel Innov8 Ventures (led U.S. and Israel team for 9 yrs to > 100 investments); Panorama Capital (JP Morgan Partners spinout)

Fellowship

Punit served his fellowship under mentor Shahan Soghikian at Panorama Capital as a member of Class 13.