Priyadarshini Banerjee

Priya Banerjee is a Senior Principal on the investment team at B Capital, the global venture and growth firm co-founded in 2015 by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly. B Capital manages more than $6 billion across funds, invests from seed through late-stage growth in technology, healthcare and climate, and operates a multi-office platform (including Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco and Doha) alongside a strategic partnership with Boston Consulting Group. At B Capital, Banerjee focuses on high-growth technology investments spanning enterprise technology, fintech, B2B and transportation, historically with an India and Southeast Asia lens.

Before B Capital, Banerjee was an investment professional at Sequoia Capital India, where she sourced and evaluated high-growth startups in the consumer and healthcare sectors. She began her career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, working on digital transformation and innovation strategy for clients in financial services and healthcare.

Banerjee earned her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also served as an Investment Partner at First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund — leading or participating in 25+ investments into student-founded startups across the U.S. Her undergraduate degree is in Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS).

She is also an author of several of B Capital's public "Why We Invested" investment theses (2021–2022), including those for Flutterwave, Newfront and Fi, which she co-wrote with colleagues including Sami Ahmad, Matt Levinson, Kabir Narang and Rishabh Aggarwal.

• Where she plays: Technology investments in fintech, B2B/enterprise software, AI, and transportation/logistics — historically concentrated on India and Southeast Asia, increasingly cross-border.
• What she backs: "Startups that are building products to help legacy industries transition from pen and paper workflows to more modern, digital-first solutions."
• Her diligence lens (her own three tests): Is "the company operating in a large and growing market?"; is there "an interesting insight into why customers need this solution?"; and has the team "figured out an effective go-to-market approach that enables them to scale fast?"
• Generational-company bias: In her Flutterwave thesis she framed B Capital as backing "generational companies with broad platform potential" positioned on long-term structural tailwinds (e.g., African digital payments + e-commerce).
• Founder traits she prizes: "Obsessive curiosity" and "the right balance of determination and empathy."
• Check size & stage: Institutional checks roughly $25M–$60M, frequently around Series B, though B Capital invests across seed-to-late-stage.