Puja Gajera

Puja Gajera is currently a Partner at Sequoia Capital in San Francisco, where she focuses on early-stage enterprise software and financial technology investments. Previously, she served as a Senior Product Manager at Stripe, leading a 15-person engineering team to launch new payment infrastructure products. During her tenure there, these new product initiatives successfully processed over $1 billion in annualized transaction volume within their first year. Before joining Stripe, Gajera worked as a Software Engineer at Google, contributing directly to the core search algorithm and optimizing backend data retrieval processes. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University, where she graduated with distinction and published two peer-reviewed academic papers. Gajera now leverages her extensive technical background and operational expertise to identify, fund, and support high-growth technology startups across the global market.