Ankur Capital
ankurcapital.com Direct investor
Ankur Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Mumbai, India, focused on deep science and technology startups. It invests in sectors like AI, biotech, energy, and agritech, providing initial cheques of $500K to $2M.
Ankur Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Mumbai, India, founded in 2013. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in deep tech, AI, biotech and advanced materials. Its stated cheque size is Initial cheques range from $500K to $2M.. 40 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back companies where the core innovation is a scientific or engineering breakthrough — not a business model.”
— Ankur Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- India
- Sectors
- deep tech, AI, biotech, advanced materials, energy, agritech, semiconductors, healthcare
- Cheque size
- Initial cheques range from $500K to $2M.
- Founded
- 2013
- Portfolio
- 40 companies
Team, as Ankur Capital publishes it
- Rema Subramanian Co-Founder & Managing Partner
- Dr. Ritu Verma Co-Founder & Managing Partner
- Krishnan Neelakantan Managing Partner
- Shiva Shanker Partner
- Vishal Aman Vice President – Investments
- Dr. Vishal Katariya Vice President - Investments
- Suraj Nair Assistant Vice President – Investments
- Burzin Dubash Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer
- Siddhi Khabia Senior Manager – Legal, Compliance & Fund Governance
- Sama Jashnani Manager – Marketing
Names and roles exactly as listed on ankurcapital.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 17 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Better Capital 3 shared companies: vegrow.in, joshtalks.com, rupifi.com
- pi Ventures 2 shared companies: niramai.com, pranosfusion.energy
- Prosus Ventures 2 shared companies: vegrow.in, captainfresh.in
- Titan Capital 2 shared companies: vegrow.in, projecthero.in
- ADB Ventures 2 shared companies: captainfresh.in, ibisa.network
- 3i Partners 2 shared companies: vimano.biz, dnome.in
- Axilor Ventures 1 shared company: niramai.com
- Chiratae Ventures 1 shared company: cropin.com
- Elevation Capital 1 shared company: vegrow.in
- Evolvence Equity Partners 1 shared company: captainfresh.in
and 7 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Ankur Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.ankurcapital.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, cheque_size, description, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.ankurcapital.com/investor-relationsstage_min, stage_max
- https://www.ankurcapital.com/portfoliosectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.ankurcapital.com/about-usfounded
- https://www.ankurcapital.com/teampeople
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Record 838 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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