Are You a Physicist, but What Are You Doing Here?

The Asia Tech Podcast was so happy to be joined by Dr. Ritu Verma, a co-Founder, Managing Partner at Ankur Capital Fund.  The Ankur team believes "great entrepreneurs coupled with the essential business building blocks leads to great companies."

Some of the topics Dr. Verma covered:

• Beginning her career as a Physicist
• The excitement and challenge of moving to Vermont for school
• The benefits of moving out of your comfort zone at a young age
• The subtle change in how the world perceives Impact Investing
• How Impact Investing leads to a better world
• Seed-stage investing compared to later-stage investing
• Leaning into her science background to help make better investment decisions
• Asia as a leader in climate impact investment
• How the investment landscape has changed in India in the past 10 years
• Women in technology and STEM

Other titles we considered for this episode:

1. It Was an Adventure, so That’s What Was Great About It
2. This Is a Sort of Space That Makes You Dive Deeper
3. Being Thrown off the Cliff to Think
4. The Sheer Joy of Seeing Interesting Things Come Up
5. It’s Exciting Having the Tools for Innovation
6. I Learnt About Telegram on a Sunflower Seed Field

The episode was expertly produced by Isabelle Goh.