"AGRITECH AND DEEP-TECH COMPANIES CONTINUE TO REMAIN OUR FOCUS"

Ritu Verma, Co-founder, Ankur Capital, in an interaction with BW Businessworld, talks about the art of creating products, bringing early-stage technology innovations to market, deploying investments across 14 companies from her firm's Fund-I, besides fintech, FDI influx and more. Excerpts:

- Anisha Aditya

Aventure capital firm focused on agritech and healthcare sectors, Ankur Capital boasts a portfolio made up of several successful startups including Niramai, Karma Healthcare, CropIn, Jiny, BigHaat, and Health Sutra. Ritu Verma, who co-founded Ankur Capital in 2013 after holding leadership positions at Unilever and Philips, says she was led to start the firm for two reasons. "My heart lay in actually getting products to market and looking at disruptive technology for markets," she says.

Before starting out with Ankur Capital, you led the advisory board at Truman. Can you tell us about the areas of practices at Truman and what led you to start out through it?