E13: Ritu Verma (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Ankur Capital)

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Ritu Verma is one of the co-founders at Ankur Capital. She is passionate about bringing innovation from lab to the market and did that for a decade across corporates such as Unilever and Philips. She has also worked globally investing in IP-led renewable technologies. She has a PhD in physics from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from INSEAD.

You can follow Ritu (@rituverma01) and host Akash Bhat (@bhatvakash) on Twitter.

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Glossary of terms:

1. Impact Investing: Impact investing refers to investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return.

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In this episode we will cover:

1. Ritu’s journey from Academia to Venture Capital

2. The definition of impact investing according to Ritu

3. The bottlenecks within impact investing

4. The misconceptions about impact investing

5. The trends within impact investing

6. Ankur Capital’s investment thesis – today and going forward

7. Fund-raising for an impact focused fund

8. How an impact fund tracks and measures ‘impact’

9. Portfolio construction strategy at Ankur Capital

10. Advice to investors and startups in the impact space