Ritu Verma

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Ankur Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dr. Ritu Verma co-founded Ankur Capital in 2013, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in Indian deep tech, agritech, and healthcare startups. Holding a PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from INSEAD, she holds multiple patents and also serves on the board of Godrej Agrovet.

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Verma: India is a sandbox for developing globally exported, world-class agritech

“Agriculture is a global play, and I always think that India, and this has been played out in other industries, is the, is a really great sandbox where, you know, we have really good tech talent, That not much money develops world-class products, and that's app…”

Ritu Verma May 18, 2020 ▶ 15:19 Ritu Verma on why Ankur Capital is betting big on Agritech and Healthcare in India

Disclosure

Verma: Ankur Capital is sector-agnostic but strictly targets mass-market Indian consumers

“So we are sector agnostic Siddharth We are, but we are market, not market agnostic necessarily. We're looking for solutions that can actually unlock these larger markets, as I said earlier.”

Ritu Verma May 18, 2020 ▶ 10:21 Ritu Verma on why Ankur Capital is betting big on Agritech and Healthcare in India

Insight

Verma: Purely domestic healthtech solutions will not scale into billion-dollar global companies

“Companies that are going to go on to become billion dollar companies will have to navigate some of those quirks, and just a pure India solution You know, may not work as well in another country. So your technology, your product has to kind of take into account…”

Ritu Verma May 18, 2020 ▶ 17:59 Ritu Verma on why Ankur Capital is betting big on Agritech and Healthcare in India

Insight

Verma: Physical-world tech adoption scales slower but creates far stronger defensive moats

“There is an intersection of these technologies with the physical world, which obviously slows things down, you know, versus something going viral in a year or two. Ah, but on the other hand, these are modes, right? So as you get those right, ah, dislodging you…”

Ritu Verma May 18, 2020 ▶ 19:17 Ritu Verma on why Ankur Capital is betting big on Agritech and Healthcare in India

Assertion Partly supported

Verma: India's agricultural inputs market is a 70,000 crore rupee industry

“One is in imports and agri inputs and how that kind of goes in. It's again a 50,000 crore or 70,000 crore kind of industry.”

Ritu Verma May 18, 2020 ▶ 13:20 Ritu Verma on why Ankur Capital is betting big on Agritech and Healthcare in India

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Verma: Cropin retained its earliest enterprise customers and expanded their contract sizes

“Their first customers are still customers. As a matter of fact, not at the same size, but at much larger sizes.”

Ritu Verma May 18, 2020 ▶ 20:21 Ritu Verma on why Ankur Capital is betting big on Agritech and Healthcare in India

Disclosure

Verma: Ankur Capital has expanded its check sizes up to $5 million

“We used to do about a million dollar checks. We can now go up to five million dollars.”

Ritu Verma May 18, 2020 ▶ 24:17 Ritu Verma on why Ankur Capital is betting big on Agritech and Healthcare in India

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Ritu Verma on why Ankur Capital is betting big on Agritech and Healthcare in India	May 18, 2020	29m

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