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Kshitij Golwalkar
General Partner
Powerhouse Ventures
Kshitij Golwalkar is a General Partner at Powerhouse Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing across India, the United States and Southeast Asia. He brings over 20 years of experience spanning venture capital, entrepreneurship, private equity and investment banking, with a broad perspective on investing, building and scaling businesses across markets.
Prior to Powerhouse Ventures, Kshitij was a key member of the investment team at AT Capital, a Singapore-based family office, where he evaluated and invested in businesses across Asia and Europe. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in India, where he worked across investment banking, advisory and assurance.
Kshitij holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business and is a Chartered Accountant, qualified through the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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12:00–12:40pmThu 19 NovSide ProgrammesInvestors Lounge (Hall 2)Open
Capital Rewiring
Built to Exit: How Cap Tables Make or Break the Endgame
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Kshitij GolwalkarGeneral PartnerPowerhouse Ventures
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Jonathan WhittleCo-founder & Managing PartnerQuona Capital
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Adrian LiFounder & Managing PartnerACV Capital
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Yuan Lee ChungPartnerCento Ventures
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Natasha HartoroCo-Founder & CEODurianpayModerator
About this session
Every founder dreams of the exit. Far fewer plan for it.
In a funding cycle shaped by lofty valuations and layered rounds, many promising companies find their path to exit blocked by the very capital that fueled their growth. Complex cap tables, preference stacks, and misaligned shareholders can turn a willing acquirer into a walk-away, or a good outcome into a stalemate.
This session, co-hosted with Singapore Venture Capital Association, brings together investors for a candid conversation about what really stands between a startup and its exit. We’ll examine how high valuations and shareholder misalignment create friction when it matters most, and ask a harder question: how can founders and investors recognize early when to pivot or call time, before too much capital makes either option painful?
Expect frank views, real lessons, and practical takeaways for anyone raising or backing startups today. -
