Investing strategically for a better tomorrow

In 1984, at just 24 years old, Pankaj and Vyjayanthi took a leap of faith and moved to Bangalore with just ₹7,000 between them.

In those early years, both were building their careers. Vyjayanthi’s salary from her work at Kuwait Airways provided the financial stability for their household while Pankaj worked to establish Alufit. Alongside their respective work, they spent weekends together manually sealing windows — doing whatever was needed to help the business grow.

Over the next four decades, Pankaj grew Alufit from those beginnings into a leading façade business. The journey included navigating difficult periods, including the 2009 financial crisis, when he made the decision to sell the company’s extrusion plant to SAPA. In 2025, after more than 40 years at the helm, Pankaj sold Alufit to the German building systems company Schüco — marking the close of one chapter and the beginning of another.

Meanwhile Vyjayanthi built her own career. She went on to establish Linani, an interior design practice through which she designed homes and spaces for a diverse range of clients, including the residence of Karnataka Chief Minister S. M. Krishna. Her work was also shortlisted for an Elle Décor award for design innovation. She later brought her experience into Alufit before moving into a new creative venture, co-founding La Vie, a packaging studio.

Step by step, and through the challenges that came with building from the ground up, they built successful careers of their own, a family of three children and ultimately a shared pool of capital following the sale of Alufit in 2025.

Eighty Four Investments is the next chapter of that journey — carrying forward the values of hard work, partnership, patience and long-term thinking that shaped them.