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:
- It Was an Adventure, so That’s What Was Great About It
- This Is a Sort of Space That Makes You Dive Deeper
- Being Thrown off the Cliff to Think
- The Sheer Joy of Seeing Interesting Things Come Up
- It’s Exciting Having the Tools for Innovation
- I Learnt About Telegram on a Sunflower Seed Field
The episode was expertly produced by Isabelle Goh.
