Manvir Randhawa
Principal — Operations & Technology
Engineering and ITES leader who has founded and exited two businesses in the IT and ITES space. Leads technical diligence on every engagement.
Boutique advisory · Est. since 2009
Capital, counsel
and the uncomfortable
questions —
A boutique partnership helping coachable founders become fundable companies. Sixty businesses. Half a billion in exits.
$500M+
In founder exits
60+
Companies advised
9
Sectors covered
3
Operating principals
01 — Approach
We invest patience, then capital. In that order.
Randhawa Investments is a boutique partnership of operators who built and exited multi-million dollar businesses across nine sectors. We work with a small, deliberately curated cohort of founders each year — the ones willing to be advised, challenged, and re-shaped into investor-grade companies.
Our advisory work runs deep. Finance, marketing, people, and technology — handled by partners who have signed the front of the cheque, not just the back. When a company is ready, we open the doors to our investor circle.
Sectors
IT
Finance
Fintech
Edtech
Entertainment
Aviation
ITES
AI
Robotics
02 — Practice
Four practices, run by the operators who built them.
I. Finance +
Capital structure, unit economics, fundraising readiness, board reporting, and the financial discipline that separates a series from a story.
- Fundraise readiness
- Cap table strategy
- Cash & runway
- Investor materials
- Board governance
II. Marketing +
Positioning that survives diligence. Brand, demand and category strategy from operators who have run the playbook themselves.
- Positioning & narrative
- Go-to-market design
- Demand engine
- Brand architecture
- Customer research
III. Human Capital +
Founder coaching, executive hiring, comp design, and the org architecture that scales without breaking culture.
- Founder coaching
- Exec search
- Comp & equity
- Org design
- Performance
IV. Technology +
Engineering due diligence, technical strategy, AI integration, and the architecture decisions investors interrogate before they wire.
- Tech due diligence
- Architecture review
- AI integration
- Security posture
- CTO advisory
03 — Process
A deliberately slow first step. Then we move quickly.
— 01
Conversation
A 60-minute exchange. We listen, you listen. We're judging fit as much as you are.
— 02
Diligence
Two weeks examining the business honestly. The kind of look you wish your investors had given you.
— 03
Engagement
A defined 90-day intervention across the practices that need it most. Outcomes are written, not hoped for.
— 04
Capital
When the fundamentals are right, we make introductions inside our investor circle. Never before.
04 — Principals
Three operators. One conversation at a time.
Harvinder Mavi
Principal — Marketing & Brand
Built consumer and B2B brands across edtech, entertainment and aviation. Founded and exited two businesses; brings an operator's eye for the line between a story and a category.
IP Singh
Principal — Finance & Capital
Two decades structuring growth capital across IT and fintech. Founded and scaled multiple businesses; now applies that experience to help founders build investor-grade companies.
06 — For Founders
Apply to be advised. Five minutes.
We accept fifteen new founder engagements per year. The application is short by design — we want to know you, not your deck.
Standard engagements are 90 days, structured as a fixed retainer plus a small equity component aligned with outcomes. Both are agreed before work begins.
Apply — apply@randhawa.co
Questions — partners@randhawa.co
07 — For Investors
A quiet circle. Carefully kept.
Our investor circle reviews curated opportunities from companies we have worked with for at least one full engagement. We do not run public deal flow.
Membership
By referral or application
Cadence
6–10 introductions per year
Typical check
$250K – $5M
Composition
Operators, family offices, select institutions
05 — FAQ
Questions, answered plainly.
What kind of founders do you work with?+
Coachable founders building real businesses — typically post-revenue, pre-Series B — across IT, finance, fintech, edtech, entertainment, aviation, ITES, AI and robotics. We work with twelve to fifteen new companies per year, no more.
Are you a fund?+
Randhawa Investments is a boutique advisory firm. We do not run a pooled fund. When a portfolio company is ready for capital, we make introductions inside our private investor circle. Capital is never a precondition for engagement.
What does an engagement cost?+
Standard engagements are 90 days, structured as a fixed retainer plus a small equity component aligned with outcomes. We are clear about both before we start; there are no surprises and no success-fee theatre.
How do investors get involved?+
We invite a small, accredited group of investors — operators and family offices, primarily — to review opportunities after they have completed an engagement with us. There is no public deal flow.
Where are you based?+
Our principals operate across North America and South Asia. Most engagements run remotely with quarterly in-person sessions. Founders are not required to relocate.
What does 'coachable' actually mean?+
Willing to be wrong. Willing to redo the deck, the model and the team if the work calls for it. We screen for it carefully because it is the single biggest predictor of a successful engagement.
07 — Contact
A short note is enough.
We read everything that comes in. If there's a fit, you'll hear from a principal within five business days.
Email — partners@randhawa.co
Founders — apply@randhawa.co
Investors — circle@randhawa.co