Quantamental Investing®: Investing, Entrepreneurship & Money Management with Sanjit Singh Paul

What does it take to make better decisions with money—whether you are managing your personal wealth, investing in public markets, or building a business?

In this insightful conversation, Sanjit Singh Paul, Managing Partner at Modulor Capital, shares his perspective on Quantamental Investing®, portfolio management, venture capital, entrepreneurship and personal finance. With students at Plaksha University.

Drawing on his experience across public and private markets, Sanjit discusses how investors and entrepreneurs can approach decision-making with greater discipline, understand risk and focus on what truly matters.

From Personal Finance to Investment Decisions

Finance and money are closely connected, but they are not the same.

Financial models can help businesses make rational decisions, while personal financial decisions are often influenced by individual circumstances, emotions, responsibilities and goals.

Sanjit discusses why understanding your relationship with money is an important part of managing personal finances—and why investment decisions should account for the investor’s actual financial needs rather than markets alone.

Public vs. Private Market Investing

Investing in public and private companies requires different approaches to due diligence.

Sanjit highlights three important considerations:

Access. Availability. Authenticity.

Public markets generally provide greater access to standardised financial information, although direct access to management may be limited.

Private market investing presents a different challenge. Information may be less standardised, comparable data may be harder to obtain, and investors need to assess both the quality and authenticity of the information available.

In either case, successful investing requires a repeatable framework for evaluating opportunities and managing uncertainty.

What Is Quantamental Investing®?

At Modulor Capital, Quantamental Investing® brings together three complementary perspectives:

Quantitative Analysis – using data and measurable factors to evaluate investment opportunities.

Fundamental Analysis – understanding the underlying financial and business strength of a company.

Technical Analysis – studying market behaviour, trends and positioning.

The objective is not simply to predict which investment will perform best.

As Sanjit explains in the conversation, the process can also be viewed as a rejection framework: identify what does not meet the required fundamental, quantitative or technical criteria and eliminate it from consideration.

Instead of asking only, “What will work?”, the framework also asks:

“What should we avoid?”

This creates a more systematic, process-driven approach to investment decision-making.

Risk Management: Elimination Before Selection

Markets are inherently uncertain. No investment framework can know every future outcome.

That makes risk management an essential part of investing.

Sanjit explains that an investment manager’s role is not necessarily to identify one guaranteed winner. It is to systematically eliminate opportunities that do not meet the required criteria and build exposure to opportunities that survive the investment process.

This philosophy extends across both public and private market investing.

What Investors Can Learn From Venture Capital

Venture capital demonstrates why diversification, portfolio construction and capital allocation matter.

Early-stage businesses operate under significant uncertainty. Some may fail, others may generate modest outcomes, while a small number can potentially contribute disproportionately to portfolio returns.

Because the future cannot be predicted precisely, investors need to think beyond individual selections and consider how capital is allocated across the overall portfolio.

The same principle applies to public markets: portfolio construction matters alongside security selection.

Building Sustainable Businesses

For entrepreneurs, raising capital is only the beginning.

Sanjit discusses why founders need a clear plan for how capital will be deployed, how long their financial runway is expected to last and what milestones the business needs to achieve before its next funding round.

He also highlights an important distinction between finding a solution and successfully implementing it.

A promising idea alone does not build a successful company. Execution, market dynamics, team capabilities, capital allocation and adaptability can all influence whether a business survives and grows.

Look for Problems, Not Just Trends

One of the most practical lessons from the conversation is Sanjit’s approach to identifying potential business opportunities.

Rather than beginning with a fashionable technology or trend, entrepreneurs can start by identifying persistent problems.

Technology—including artificial intelligence—can then become a tool for solving those problems rather than the problem itself.

For founders and investors alike, understanding changing consumer behaviour, economic incentives and real-world challenges can provide a stronger foundation for evaluating emerging opportunities.

Key Takeaways

• Personal finance requires understanding both financial logic and individual circumstances.
• Public and private market investing involve different due-diligence challenges.
• Quantamental Investing® combines quantitative, fundamental and technical perspectives.
• A systematic investment process can focus on eliminating unsuitable opportunities before selecting investments.
• Portfolio construction and capital allocation are critical when outcomes are uncertain.
• Startups need more than good ideas—execution and implementation matter.
• Founders should plan how capital will be deployed before raising it.
• Sustainable businesses often emerge by solving persistent, evolving problems.

About Sanjit Singh Paul

Sanjit Singh Paul is the Managing Partner at Modulor Capital and a SEBI Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).

With experience spanning investing, financial markets and entrepreneurship, he has worked across public and private market investments and pioneered Modulor Capital’s Quantamental Investing® approach.

He is also co-author of What My MBA Did Not Teach Me About Money, which explores personal finance through both human and financial perspectives.

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