Ankur Capital

Ankur Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in digital and deep science technology companies. Founded in 2014, Ankur Capital is known for taking contrarian bets to uncover and unlock opportunities in overlooked markets across India. They were the first institutional investors in notable companies including Captain Fresh (supply chain tech), Cropin (agri SaaS), Rupifi (B2B BNPL), String Bio (biotech); and Vegrow (agritech).

Vishal Aman

Vice President, Investments

Naveli Jain

Vice President, Investments

Vishal Katariya

Associate

Suraj Nair

Associate

Krishnan Neelkantan

Director

Amanda Sequeira

Associate

Shiva Shanker

Investment Director

Ritu Verma

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

53 past transactions

Project Hero

Seed Round in 2022
Project Hero enables contractors to hire and manage workers in a variety of trades, such as barbending and shuttering.

IBISA

Seed Round in 2022
IBISA is an index-based insurance marketplace with satellite adoption. Inclusive mutual risk sharing solution with low fees and fast assessment and payment. Crop Protection for Smallholder Farmers

SportVot

Seed Round in 2022
A sports tech company that empowers sports digitization at the grassroots level. With premium & hassle-free cloud studio for LIVE sports broadcasting and a multi-sports OTT platform for talent discovery, SportVot is the go to solution for all things sports!

Piatrika Biosystems

Seed Round in 2022
Piatrika Biosystems is an innovative platform that helps researchers and plant breeders bring Sustainable Seeds and Agri Chemicals to market faster and cheaper.

String Bio

Series B in 2022
String Bio designs sustainable industrial products security that improves worldwide food security. The company uses methane as a source of carbon for biodegradable products and introduces a sustainable protein allowing users to determine with a simple test for high-value industrial chemicals and transportation fuels, enabling companies to help meet the growing global demand for protein.

Vegrow

Series B in 2022
Vegrow is a tech platform partnering with farmers, aggregating supply, and selling to organized demand through partnership. Vegrow simplifies farming and increases the land utilization for farmers. We are on a mission to build the world's biggest asset-light farmer.

Josh Talks

Series A in 2022
We started in 2015 by giving Bharat access to stories of relatable role models and building what is now one of India's largest regional content distribution networks. In 2020, we launched our app to help the youth of Bharat speak English without hesitation. The app generated powerful user feedback with industry-leading retention rates, unlocking new employment opportunities for our users. As of December 2022, our content has garnered 2.5+ Billion lifetime views with an average of 180+ Million monthly views across platforms. The Josh Talks English Speaking app has 5+ Million downloads and 300,000+ paid users who used our flagship peer-to-peer feature and spent 95+ Million minutes practicing English. With partners such as Amazon, Meta, Diageo, and more, we continue to scale for new solutions to mobilise the next half billion and work with communities across India to create a SDG-realised future. To find out more about our work, visit https://www.joshtalks.com/.

Agrizy

Seed Round in 2022
Agrizy develops an agri-processing platform to provide supply chain solutions for agribusinesses. It connects the processors and buyers of non-perishable farm products across both food and non-food categories to discover and fulfill transactions.

Captain Fresh

Series C in 2022
Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Krishify

Seed Round in 2022
Krishify is a social network for farmers to discuss and solve their Agri input needs. Through the Krishify community, farmers can not only discuss their cropping issues with peers from a similar background and interest. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Haryana, India.

Offgrid Energy Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Innovate chemistry, materials & design using commonly available, eco-friendly materials to built efficient & safe batteries for the sustainable future.

MyCaptain

Seed Round in 2022
MyCaptain is an Edtech platform that helps people transform passion into a career, with guidance from 200 plus professionals who have made a mark in their respective fields.. MyCaptain aims to enable every human to pursue careers they truly love, right from Marketing, Content creation, Writing, Design, Product to name a few, and facilitate their growth in the field. The platform aims to train more than a Million learners in new age professions in the year 2025.

Rupifi

Series A in 2022
Rupifi is a digital B2B platform that offers loans, working capital, and payment services to small businesses. The company was founded in 2020 by Ankit Singh, Anubhav Jain, and Jawaid Iqbal and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Captain Fresh

Series B in 2021
Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Krishify

Seed Round in 2021
Krishify is a social network for farmers to discuss and solve their Agri input needs. Through the Krishify community, farmers can not only discuss their cropping issues with peers from a similar background and interest. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Haryana, India.

Wasabi

Seed Round in 2021
Wasabi is building communications and growth platform for small and medium businesses in India to help them manage customer relationships better and grow their business.

Vegrow

Series A in 2021
Vegrow is a tech platform partnering with farmers, aggregating supply, and selling to organized demand through partnership. Vegrow simplifies farming and increases the land utilization for farmers. We are on a mission to build the world's biggest asset-light farmer.

Captain Fresh

Series A in 2021
Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Rupifi

Seed Round in 2021
Rupifi is a digital B2B platform that offers loans, working capital, and payment services to small businesses. The company was founded in 2020 by Ankit Singh, Anubhav Jain, and Jawaid Iqbal and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Captain Fresh

Seed Round in 2021
Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Cropin

Series C in 2021
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

Captain Fresh

Seed Round in 2020
Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

BigHaat

Venture Round in 2020
BigHaat is an online seeds company that works with several seed suppliers across India in bringing their products into BigHaat platform to provide transparent, competitive, and quality services to the seed buyers. BigHaat platform ensures online listing of products and connects buyers with suppliers for any post-sale support providing seamless end to end user experience. This platform also reduces the widening gap between sellers and buyers in agriculture domain and benefits suppliers and sellers to improve their operational efficiency and productivity. It was launched on 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Vegrow

Seed Round in 2020
Vegrow is a tech platform partnering with farmers, aggregating supply, and selling to organized demand through partnership. Vegrow simplifies farming and increases the land utilization for farmers. We are on a mission to build the world's biggest asset-light farmer.

Captain Fresh

Series A in 2020
Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Jiny

Seed Round in 2019
Jiny is an Assistive UI platform for product teams building for the next billion users. It gives on-screen, contextual assistance to mobile users through audio-visual instructions in any language they want. It's like GPS navigation but for apps. Jiny provides a mobile SDK and a web-based workflow maker for developers to add and control the assistive experience at runtime.

ToBeHealthy

Seed Round in 2019
They all come to work every morning, wanting to solve one common problem, which is finding an healthy alternative to home ordered meals. Healthy takes you to tasteless mushy vegetables, concoctions that no one wants to touch, let alone taste. The list can go on and on and on.

String Bio

Venture Round in 2019
String Bio designs sustainable industrial products security that improves worldwide food security. The company uses methane as a source of carbon for biodegradable products and introduces a sustainable protein allowing users to determine with a simple test for high-value industrial chemicals and transportation fuels, enabling companies to help meet the growing global demand for protein.

NIRAMAI Health Analytix

Series A in 2019
Breast Cancer is the leading type of cancer in women. According to WHO, one in every 8 women in US is at the risk of developing a breast abnormality in her life time. It is well-established that early diagnosis is very critical in saving a life of a cancer patient. They at NIRAMAI have developed a new cancer screening software that uses machine intelligence over thermography images to enable a low cost, easy to use, portable solution and requires minimal human supervision. Their solution can detect cancer at a much earlier stage than traditional diagnostic methods and self-examination and can therefore improve survival rates. Their method of breast cancer screening can detect tumors 5 times smaller than what clinical exam can detect, is non-contact, painless and free of any radiation, apart from being low-cost, and universally accessible. With their solution, women of all age groups can undergo frequent screening without any side-effects.

HealthSutra

Seed Round in 2019
Health Sutra is a new and exciting way to healthy eating and a healthier lifestyle. All our products are made from nutritious and indigenous wonder grains - Millets. For the first time in India, Health Sutra brings you the nutritional goodness of millets like Jowar in the form of tasty and easy to make foods. These products are gluten free, free from preservatives and artifical ingredients, and are available at affordable prices. They are the most convenient way to enjoy the nutrition of healthy and traditional grains like Jowar. Fun, Tasty and healthy products from traditionally healthy, ancient and indigenous grains - Millets. GLuten free, free from preservatives and artificial ingredients, Health Sutra products are available at affordable prices.

BigHaat

Seed Round in 2018
BigHaat is an online seeds company that works with several seed suppliers across India in bringing their products into BigHaat platform to provide transparent, competitive, and quality services to the seed buyers. BigHaat platform ensures online listing of products and connects buyers with suppliers for any post-sale support providing seamless end to end user experience. This platform also reduces the widening gap between sellers and buyers in agriculture domain and benefits suppliers and sellers to improve their operational efficiency and productivity. It was launched on 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Agricx

Seed Round in 2018
Agriculture sector despite contributing 14% of the GDP is in desperate need of innovations. They help bulk buyers of agri-produce to assess the quality of their purchase accurately, economically & instantly.The area considered to be in urgent need of disruption is supply chain and market linkage. A complex & fragmented supply chain, opaque price discovery process along with inadequate forward integration, has resulted in sub-optimal quality, low price and high wastage of farm produce. In a nutshell, consumers are paying as much as 400% more than the price at which produce was sold at the farm gate. One of the most important reason is the absence of grading. Despite the benefits associated with the grading system; it is still not practiced due to several reasons such as - High costs, nonavailability of technology and awareness amongst the stakeholders. Thus necessitating a physical assessment of produce to determine the specification & quality of the produce. They at, Agricx strive to streamline the process, by developing the proprietary technology through which it makes it easier and relatively inexpensive to determine the quality and size of the produce and also ensure greater accessibility to produce information. In a nutshell, At Agricxlab they are going to transform the way agriculture procurement specialist across country procures their requirements in the most efficient way with the use of technology.

Tessol

Venture Round in 2018
Tessol develops sustainable cold-chain technology solutions for cold-chain storage and logistics companies to ensure their products stay fresh and reach the maximum number of consumers with minimal wastage, carbon footprint, and operating costs. Tessol offers environmentally safe and sustainable solutions that protect not just the products of clients but also the areas in which they operate. Tessol aims to make the last mile cold chain viable and accessible for everyone.

Carmel Organics

Series A in 2018
Carmel Organics is an India-based herb company engaged in sourcing, processing, and distributing herbal tea ingredients.

Agricx

Seed Round in 2018
Agriculture sector despite contributing 14% of the GDP is in desperate need of innovations. They help bulk buyers of agri-produce to assess the quality of their purchase accurately, economically & instantly.The area considered to be in urgent need of disruption is supply chain and market linkage. A complex & fragmented supply chain, opaque price discovery process along with inadequate forward integration, has resulted in sub-optimal quality, low price and high wastage of farm produce. In a nutshell, consumers are paying as much as 400% more than the price at which produce was sold at the farm gate. One of the most important reason is the absence of grading. Despite the benefits associated with the grading system; it is still not practiced due to several reasons such as - High costs, nonavailability of technology and awareness amongst the stakeholders. Thus necessitating a physical assessment of produce to determine the specification & quality of the produce. They at, Agricx strive to streamline the process, by developing the proprietary technology through which it makes it easier and relatively inexpensive to determine the quality and size of the produce and also ensure greater accessibility to produce information. In a nutshell, At Agricxlab they are going to transform the way agriculture procurement specialist across country procures their requirements in the most efficient way with the use of technology.

Karma Healthcare

Seed Round in 2018
Karman Healthcare are see a world where everyone has an opportunity and means to access equitable and affordable healthcare.

ERC Eye Care

Venture Round in 2018
ERC EyeCare Pvt. Ltd., an eye care facility, provides eye care services to far-flung geographies and also offers optical retail, pharmacy, and consultation services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Jorhat, India.

HealthSutra

Seed Round in 2017
Health Sutra is a new and exciting way to healthy eating and a healthier lifestyle. All our products are made from nutritious and indigenous wonder grains - Millets. For the first time in India, Health Sutra brings you the nutritional goodness of millets like Jowar in the form of tasty and easy to make foods. These products are gluten free, free from preservatives and artifical ingredients, and are available at affordable prices. They are the most convenient way to enjoy the nutrition of healthy and traditional grains like Jowar. Fun, Tasty and healthy products from traditionally healthy, ancient and indigenous grains - Millets. GLuten free, free from preservatives and artificial ingredients, Health Sutra products are available at affordable prices.

BigHaat

Seed Round in 2017
BigHaat is an online seeds company that works with several seed suppliers across India in bringing their products into BigHaat platform to provide transparent, competitive, and quality services to the seed buyers. BigHaat platform ensures online listing of products and connects buyers with suppliers for any post-sale support providing seamless end to end user experience. This platform also reduces the widening gap between sellers and buyers in agriculture domain and benefits suppliers and sellers to improve their operational efficiency and productivity. It was launched on 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Cropin

Series A in 2017
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

HealthSutra

Seed Round in 2017
Health Sutra is a new and exciting way to healthy eating and a healthier lifestyle. All our products are made from nutritious and indigenous wonder grains - Millets. For the first time in India, Health Sutra brings you the nutritional goodness of millets like Jowar in the form of tasty and easy to make foods. These products are gluten free, free from preservatives and artifical ingredients, and are available at affordable prices. They are the most convenient way to enjoy the nutrition of healthy and traditional grains like Jowar. Fun, Tasty and healthy products from traditionally healthy, ancient and indigenous grains - Millets. GLuten free, free from preservatives and artificial ingredients, Health Sutra products are available at affordable prices.

NIRAMAI Health Analytix

Seed Round in 2017
Breast Cancer is the leading type of cancer in women. According to WHO, one in every 8 women in US is at the risk of developing a breast abnormality in her life time. It is well-established that early diagnosis is very critical in saving a life of a cancer patient. They at NIRAMAI have developed a new cancer screening software that uses machine intelligence over thermography images to enable a low cost, easy to use, portable solution and requires minimal human supervision. Their solution can detect cancer at a much earlier stage than traditional diagnostic methods and self-examination and can therefore improve survival rates. Their method of breast cancer screening can detect tumors 5 times smaller than what clinical exam can detect, is non-contact, painless and free of any radiation, apart from being low-cost, and universally accessible. With their solution, women of all age groups can undergo frequent screening without any side-effects.

Skillveri

Series A in 2017
Skillveri enables better quality delivery of practical vocational skill training at significantly lesser costs, through its innovative simulators. Its first simulator, AURA, is an award winning welding simulator which is helping bridge the shortage of 2.2 Million welders in India. AURA has found acceptance across leaders in industry and vocational training institutes.

Tessol

Series A in 2016
Tessol develops sustainable cold-chain technology solutions for cold-chain storage and logistics companies to ensure their products stay fresh and reach the maximum number of consumers with minimal wastage, carbon footprint, and operating costs. Tessol offers environmentally safe and sustainable solutions that protect not just the products of clients but also the areas in which they operate. Tessol aims to make the last mile cold chain viable and accessible for everyone.

BigHaat

Seed Round in 2016
BigHaat is an online seeds company that works with several seed suppliers across India in bringing their products into BigHaat platform to provide transparent, competitive, and quality services to the seed buyers. BigHaat platform ensures online listing of products and connects buyers with suppliers for any post-sale support providing seamless end to end user experience. This platform also reduces the widening gap between sellers and buyers in agriculture domain and benefits suppliers and sellers to improve their operational efficiency and productivity. It was launched on 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Cropin

Series A in 2016
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

Suma Agro India

Seed Round in 2016
Suma Agro India manufactures humic-acid based soil nutrient in the form of potassium humate intended to optimize the physical, chemical and biological properties of soils. The company offers a humic-acid-based soil nutrient that is rich in organic carbon and can help to bridge the demand-supply gap by improving soil content and boosting crop production, enabling farmers to promote balance and synergy between soil and plants.

Cropin

Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

Cropin

Seed Round in 2014
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

Cropin

Seed Round in 2014
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

ERC Eye Care

Angel Round in 2013
ERC EyeCare Pvt. Ltd., an eye care facility, provides eye care services to far-flung geographies and also offers optical retail, pharmacy, and consultation services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Jorhat, India.

Cropin

Seed Round in 2013
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

Cropin

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.
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