Fundraising FoxAnkur Capital
Venture capitalMumbai · Pre-Seed–Series A · 17 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Ankur Capital invests in deep science and frontier technology companies, typically from pre-seed to Series A, prioritizing a genuine technical breakthrough with defensible IP, a founder with deep domain expertise, and a credible roadmap to category leadership. Rather than relying on a single traction metric, it accepts prototypes, pilots, partnerships, or patents as signals given the long R&D cycles of deep science. The firm positions itself as a hands-on partner, contributing operational experience, key hires, customer and investor connections, and follow-on capital. Through its ThinkAg and Deep Science Forum ecosystem platforms, it gains early access to founders and connects portfolio companies to a broader network of scientists, operators, corporates, and researchers across India and globally.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 27, 2026.
Team · 17 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 37 of 52 portfolio companiesAgTech ×11AI & Machine Learning ×10Deep Tech ×8FoodTech ×8Digital Health ×7Healthtech ×7Biotech ×6SaaS ×5
HQs:India×23United States×3United Kingdom×1Indonesia×1Luxembourg×1Russia×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 16 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×72 founders×74+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 14 founders with education data
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras ×2University of Oxford ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 15 founders with field-of-study data
Business & Management ×6Engineering ×6Computer Science ×3Finance & Accounting ×2Life Sciences ×2
Investments · 52 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22025 · 42023 · 22022 · 122021 · 12020 · 12019 · 12018 · 72017 · 32016 · 12014 · 135 dated
Cropin offers an agriculture technology platform that uses AI/ML, satellite, and weather data to digitize seed production operations, including breeding, trial management, certification, quality control, and demand forecasting.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingSaaSBengaluru, IN
Krishna Kumar(Founder)inChittaranjan Jena(Founder)Krishna Kumar Kunal Prasad(Founder)Kunal Prasad(Founder)P. R. Krishna Kumar(Founder)
Co-investorsChiratae Ventures
Josh Talks is an Indian regional content and upskilling platform that shares inspiring stories and delivers skill-development training, including via its Josh Skills mobile app with peer-to-peer calling.
ConsumerCreator EconomyEdTechMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsBetter CapitalMedia Development Investment FundThrive Capital
Myoworks Private Limited develops ancillary input products, primarily edible scaffolds that give cultivated meat its shape, structure, texture and taste, for companies producing cultivated (lab-grown) meat.
BiotechFoodTechNew MaterialsMumbai, IN
Shubhankar Takle(Co-Founder)in
Tessol develops cold chain distribution and refrigeration technology, drawing on experience in product development, agribusiness, and cold chain logistics.
AgTechCleantechFoodTechLogistics & Supply Chain
Rajat Gupta(Co-Founder & CEO)inNiranjana Neelakantan(Co-Founder & COO)
Co-investors1CrowdMela VenturesMalpani VenturesPeaceful Progress
Co-investorsBeyond Next Ventures
Captain Fresh is building a vertically integrated, multi-species global seafood platform that combines physical supply-chain infrastructure with consumer seafood brands.
B2B MarketplacesFoodTechLogistics & Supply Chain
Utham Gowda(Founder)
Co-investorsAccelADB VenturesEvolvence India FundIncubate FundStride VenturesTrifecta Capital Advisors+5 more
Carmel Organics supplies certified organic herbs and spices in whole, powdered, and tea bag cut forms, offered with packaging options such as cardboard boxes, HDPE drums, and retail pouches.
AgTechE-commerceFoodTechImpact & Social GoodWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsIIMA Ventures
CraftifAI builds Orbit, a suite of agentic AI tools for hardware engineering teams that turn plain-English requirements into validated edge AI/vision pipelines, firmware, and FPGA designs by inspecting the target hardware, generating code, and compiling and running it on the device.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsCapital-A
D-NOME develops molecular reagent technologies aimed at making diagnostics more affordable and accessible.
BiotechDeep TechHealthtechMedical DevicesHyderabad, IN
Divya Sriram(CEO)inSujoy Deb(CTO)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneur FirstImpact India Investment Partners
ERC Eye Care provides eye examinations, free community eye camps, cataract surgery, and prescription eyeglasses through a network of hub hospitals and portable diagnostic equipment.
Digital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesGuwahati, IN
Co-investorsBeyond Capital
HealthSutra produces food products from ancient millets including jowar, bajra, and ragi in modern formats for health-conscious families.
FoodTechWellness & FitnessIndia, IN
Co-investorsHyderabad Angels
HealthSutra Analytics provides AI-driven health insights and comprehensive data analysis to help individuals make informed health decisions.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Bimal Anand(Founder & CEO)Manoj Narayanan(Co-Founder & CTO)Hema Kumari(Co-Founder & COO)
Co-investorsHyderabad Angels
IBISA operates a platform for running parametric insurance programmes, using satellite and ground data to monitor indices and automatically trigger payouts on-chain or via mobile money.
AgTechClimate TechFintechInsurTechLuxembourg, LU
Maria Mateo Iborra(Founder)
Co-investorsADB VenturesEquator
Assistive multilingual UI layer that guides users through digital workflows.
Co-investors3one4 Capital
Karma (yourkarma.com) is a New York City-based company; public sources fetched provide no substantive verified detail about its business.
FintechNew York City, US
Co-investorsTechstarsVTF Capital1CrowdGV (Google Ventures)Initialized CapitalRothenberg Ventures+5 more
Karma is a mobile astrology app that uses a person's birth chart to suggest compatible matches ("soulmates") and calculate compatibility between people through astrological synastry.
ConsumerSocial
Furkan G.(Founder)in
Co-investorsInveo Ventures1CrowdSusquehanna Growth EquityTiger Global Management
Karma Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage European deep-tech software startups at late seed and Series A, typically up to €5M per deal with follow-on investments in later rounds.
Deep Tech
Margus Uudam(Founder)in
Co-investorsTesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd)1CrowdGV (Google Ventures)SoftBank GroupSusquehanna Growth EquityTiger Global Management+2 more
Karma Primary Healthcare designs, builds, and operates primary healthcare systems for underserved communities in India, combining on-ground care delivery with an integrated digital health platform.
Digital HealthHealthtechImpact & Social Good
Co-investors1CrowdBeyond Capital
Krishify offers an agriculture-focused CRM platform that helps agri businesses onboard and manage stakeholders such as farmers, field teams, and channel partners.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningMarketplacesSaaSSales TechSocial
Rajesh Ranjan(Founder)in
Co-investorsOmidyar Network IndiaOmnivoreOrios Venture Partners
Niramai develops an AI-based, radiation-free thermal imaging medical device (Thermalytix, SMILE-100, and Mythri) for early detection of breast cancer, offering a low-cost, portable, non-invasive screening tool for use in clinics, hospitals, and outreach camps.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechMedical Devices
Geetha Manjunath(Founder)in
BoardNidhi Mathurin
Co-investors500 GlobalAxilor Venturespi Ventures
NōME is an artist blending AI and NFT technologies to create contemporary art experiences.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyCrypto & Web3Media & Entertainment
NōME
Co-investorsDraper Associates
Nome offers genetic medicine development as a service, helping rare disease families, foundations, and health systems access and develop personalized n-of-1 genetic therapies.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital Health
Stevie Ringel(Founder)
Co-investorsTwelve Below
Numen develops at-home cancer diagnostics and health data collection infrastructure using machine learning models to enable earlier intervention and improve patient outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Luca Springer(Founder)inThomas Carroll(Founder)inDominique Piché(Head of Assay Development)Taylor Walmsley-Eyre(CTO)Alisa Emag(Scientist III)Micaela Everitt(Senior Scientist)
Co-investorsAxilor VenturesTq Ventures LlcUrban InnovationY Combinator
Offgrid.finance provides inventory finance and asset-finance advisory to solar and agritech clean-technology companies in emerging markets such as Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
AgTechCleantechEnergyFintechLondon, GB
Paulina Sokolova(Co-Founder & COO)inTim Chambers(Co-Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsCarbon13RockstartShell Ventures
Piatrika Biosystems builds genomics and AI-driven software for agriculture, serving seed and agricultural input companies to support molecular breeding, regulatory compliance, and crop development.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningBiotechSaaSHyderabad, IN
Vasudev Kumanduri(Co-Founder & CEO)inPhani Gopal Yarlagadda(Co-Founder & COO)
Pranos Fusion Energy develops fusion energy technology combining physics expertise with hardware engineering.
CleantechDeep TechEnergy
Dr Shaurya Kaushal(CEO, Cofounder)Roshan George(COO, Cofounder)
Co-investorspi Ventures
Largest marketplace of construction workers
Satya Vyas(Founder)inRaghu Chopra(Founder)in
Co-investorsTitan CapitalOmidyar Network India
Bengaluru, IN
Jawaid Iqbal(Founder)Anubhav Jain(Founder)inAnkit Singh(Founder)in
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersBetter CapitalQuona CapitalTrifecta Capital Advisors
Saswat Finance provides tailored lending, cattle and health insurance, and livelihood advisory services for farmers and micro-entrepreneurs in rural India, using an in-house technology platform for loan origination, underwriting, and collections.
AgTechFintechInsurTech
Co-investorsIncubate Fund
SportVot offers a cloud-based live sports production studio that supports multi-camera streaming, live scoring, real-time statistics, animated graphics, remote commentary, and automated highlights across 30+ sports.
Cloud ComputingMedia & EntertainmentSaaSSports Tech
Yash Bhagwatkar(Founder)inShubhangi Gupta(Founder)in
Co-investorsAnicut CapitalSucSEED IndovationCapital A PartnersCapital-A
String Bio develops technology at the intersection of biology, engineering, and chemistry to produce next-generation ingredients addressing challenges in food, feed, health, and the environment.
AgTechBiotechClimate TechDeep TechFoodTech
Ezhil Subbian(Founder)in
Co-investorsRedstart LabsSeventure Partners
Superfone is a business phone app that provides a shared virtual business number, letting an entire team make and receive calls from one number, with features like IVR, call transfer, auto call-recording, number masking, and CRM tools.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsXeed Ventures
To Be Honest is a food brand selling packaged healthy snacks such as sweet potato crisps, jackfruit crunchies, ripe banana chips, and vegetarian protein snacks, available individually and in combo packs.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTech
Turiyam is building a full-stack compute platform for AI workloads, spanning chips, systems, and software, aimed at delivering low total cost of ownership.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSemiconductors
Fresh produce suppliers to businesses directly from farmers
Kiran Naik Bhukya(Founder)inPraneeth Kumar(Founder)inShoubhit Jain(Founder)inKiran Naik(Founder)inMrudhukar Batchu(Founder)inShobhit Jain(Founder)
Co-investorsBetter CapitalElevation CapitalLightspeed India PartnersTitan CapitalTrifecta Capital AdvisorsZ47+3 more
Vimano develops nanotech polymer membranes made in India for applications including thermal management films for satellites, anion exchange membranes for hydrogen electrolysis and fuel cells, and membranes for flow batteries.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechEnergyNew MaterialsPearland, US
Murari R(Founder & CEO)Murari Ramkumar(CEO, Vimano Inc)inNagesh Sanjeeva Kini(CTO at Vimano Inc)Ramkumar Ganesan(Head of Corporate Affairs)in
Co-investorsIIMA VenturesMomentum Capital
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AgricxBanyan Environmental InnovationsCraftifAIESGPranosSuma AgroSuperFoneTbhToBeHealthy
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesOffgrid · get-invest.eu · Jul 21, 2026
Captain Fresh · yourstory.com · Mar 10, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Ankur Capital made?
- Ankur Capital has 52 tracked investments, including 6 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Ankur Capital invest at?
- Ankur Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Ankur Capital's typical check size?
- Ankur Capital typically writes checks of $500K – $2M.
- What sectors does Ankur Capital focus on?
- Ankur Capital focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AgTech, AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, Digital Health, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, FoodTech, Healthtech, Logistics & Supply Chain, New Materials, Quantum Computing, Retail Tech, Robotics, Semiconductors.
- Where is Ankur Capital located?
- Ankur Capital is headquartered in Mumbai, IN.
- Does Ankur Capital lead rounds?
- Yes, Ankur Capital leads investment rounds.
- Who does Ankur Capital co-invest with?
- Ankur Capital most often shares deals with Better Capital, Trifecta Capital Advisors, Incubate Fund, among 42 tracked co-investors.
From the blog
visit blog ↗Ankur Capital has written about venture diligence practices and India's semiconductor ecosystem. Recent posts examine how founders should prepare for investment closes, India's expanding semiconductor opportunity beyond fabs through fabless design and manufacturing support, and the industry's shift toward full-stack ecosystem development under ISM 2.0. AI summary
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamAnkur Capital's Ritu Verma on … - Founder Thesis - Video Podcast - Apple Podcasts
Ritu Verma · podcasts.apple.com
Ankur Capital's Ritu Verma on Investing in India's Deep Science Revolution
Founder Thesis with Akshay Datt · Ritu Verma
Why did they invest in Josh Talks || Ft. Ritu Verma, co-founder & Managing Partner at Ankur Capital
Radically Yours by Radhika · Ritu Verma
What do Investors expect in a Pitch? Ft. Ritu Verma, co-founder & Managing Partner at Ankur Capital
Radically Yours by Radhika · Ritu Verma
Ritu Verma, co-founder & managing partner at Ankur Capital, on #catalyticcapital
macfound · Ritu Verma · youtube.com
Investing in the next billion | Ritu Verma (Co Founder & Managing Partner, Ankur Capital)
The Startup Operator · Ritu Verma
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Co-investors · 8
Better Capital is a global venture capital firm that backs bold innovators from day zero, with a portfolio focused largely on Indian startups.
Tiger Global Management operates public equity strategies (long/short, long-focused and crossover) and a private equity business investing in early- through late-stage growth companies across new and existing industries.
Z47 (formerly Matrix Partners India) is an India-focused early-stage venture capital firm that partners with founders building for a developed India, backing companies from seed to Series B (with pre-seed via its DeVC arm).
Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs across enterprise, consumer, and healthcare sectors from early stages through growth.
Accel is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional teams, positioning itself as a first partner to founders globally.
Quona Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in fintech companies expanding financial access in emerging markets across Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, and EMEA.
Lightspeed India Partners (LSIP) is an early-stage investment firm, operating as part of the broader Lightspeed network, that backs founders building innovative companies across India and Southeast Asia.
Seventure Partners is a European venture capital firm backing innovative companies across life sciences and digital technologies, with additional focus areas in sport & performance and the blue economy.
Firms observed investing alongside Ankur Capital, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Ankur Capital's recorded portfolio.
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