Premji Invest is the family office of Azim Premji, set up in 2006 as a perpetual, evergreen investment vehicle whose profits ultimately support his philanthropic work. Unlike a conventional fund with a fixed life, it describes itself as patient capital without an exit timeframe — Managing Partner and CIO T.K. Kurien has called it "patient capital without an exit timeframe" in interviews. The firm's own website states it manages over $15 billion in evergreen capital.
Investment thesis
Premji Invest backs high-quality businesses it can hold for the long term, across public equities, growth-stage private investments and LP stakes in other funds. In India the focus spans technology, financial services, consumer and healthcare; in the United States it concentrates on healthcare and technology. The evergreen structure lets it stay invested through cycles rather than forcing exits to return a fund.
Stages and cheque sizes
The firm operates at the growth stage for private deals, alongside significant public-market holdings. Specific cheque sizes are not publicly stated, but the scale of its activity — a $15B+ corpus — places it among the largest pools of private capital in India, writing cheques that typically run into the hundreds of crores for growth rounds.
Notable portfolio
Names on its books include Databricks, BigHat Biosciences and Pramaana Labs (featured on the firm's own investment blog in 2026), alongside Pixis, Amagi Media Labs, Cohesity, Holistic AI and Ikigai — a mix that shows the firm's recent tilt toward AI infrastructure and applied-AI companies.
People
The firm is led by T.K. Kurien, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, who runs the investment operation for founder Azim Premji.
Credits and perks
No formal credits or perks programme is publicly documented; as a proprietary family office, its value-add is long-horizon capital and strategic patience rather than a published perks stack.
How to engage
There is no public application or contact process for founders — deals arrive via the firm's inbound network and relationships. Realistically, Premji Invest engages with companies at meaningful scale, usually introduced through co-investors or existing portfolio relationships. Founders should not expect a pitch portal; a warm introduction through the investing ecosystem is the route in.
Why it matters for founders
If you are building a company that needs a decade, not a five-year fund cycle, to reach its full size, Premji Invest is one of the few pools of Indian capital structured to stay that long. It only engages at growth stage and through networks — but its patience is unmatched in the market.