Ankit Moorjani

Ankit Moorjani is an India-based investment professional with an "eclectic" background spanning technology, finance, and entrepreneurship. He graduated with a degree in electronics engineering from the University of Mumbai (approx. 2008–2012) and is a CFA charterholder, having cleared all three levels of the CFA Program. Early in his career he was recruited into Deloitte Consulting, where he had his first exposure to technology, before moving into equity research at J.P. Morgan, where he covered the insurance and healthcare sectors for the APAC region.

In 2015 he stepped into entrepreneurship, co-founding Grabstr Technologies, an app-based local discovery platform that helped small local businesses market their services. He was also associated with The SuperFood Co. as a co-founder/operator. This operator experience is a recurring theme he has cited as shaping his investing lens.

Moorjani joined Lightbox Ventures — a Mumbai-based VC firm founded in 2014 and led by Managing Director Sandeep Murthy — around July 2018, working in an investment/investment-operations capacity. Over roughly six years he evaluated 1,500+ deals and eventually moved into an operating role working directly with Lightbox portfolio companies. He has been described publicly as an "Associate, Investment Operations" at Lightbox, though external directories (LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, RocketReach) list a "Vice President" title.

Around late 2024 he left Lightbox. His own Lightbox bio states he set out to build AiStudio, a venture focused on "making AI actually work for enterprises" by going deep into their workflows, while LinkedIn and contact-data aggregators list him as a Vice President at L Catterton (the LVMH-affiliated global consumer-focused PE firm) in Mumbai as of October 2024. He no longer appears on the Lightbox team page. Sources are inconsistent on his exact current role, so treat the "current" status as unsettled.

• Invested through Lightbox Ventures, which backs Indian consumer-facing and technology businesses across early to growth stages (retail, software, consumer products, healthcare, and financial services).
• Strong personal orientation toward operator-led, workflow-deep businesses — his stated reason for leaving investing was that the problems he cared about "needed building rather than investing," and his AiStudio thesis centers on enterprise AI that is embedded deeply in real workflows.
• Background in healthcare and insurance equity research (J.P. Morgan) and consumer/retail (Lightbox portfolio work) suggests comfort diligencing regulated and consumer sectors.
• Combines a finance/analytical rigor background (CFA, equity research) with founder empathy (Grabstr, The SuperFood Co.), which he leans on when working alongside portfolio companies.