Puja Bharwani

Puja Bharwani is a Venture Partner at Antler based in Singapore, where she focuses on sourcing, investing in, and advising early-stage technology startups. Prior to joining the global venture capital firm in 2023, she held investment roles at Golden Gate Ventures and Jungle Ventures, specializing in the Southeast Asian and Indian markets. Throughout her career, Bharwani has backed more than 20 startups across the financial technology, SaaS, and consumer technology sectors, including early investments in unicorns such as Aspire and PatSnap. In the first quarter of 2025, she directed capital into five new portfolio companies and recently presented on regional venture trends at the Slush Singapore 2024 conference. Her current focus remains on identifying and scaling Day Zero enterprise and consumer software ventures across the broader Asian technology ecosystem to support a new generation of high-potential founders.