Ankur Capital Dialogues: Recent Episodes
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We at Ankur Capital, have been listening your startup stories from across the globe however, it has now become more important to discuss issues affecting the business climate and take steps as a community. In light of the same, we are launching a new initiative - “Dialogues” - this will bring together business mavericks, VCs and entrepreneurs to create a joint panel that discusses the pertinent topics that need attention and concern of the startup community. This will be made available as a webinar by invite and as podcasts/videos to the larger community through our social media channels.
Join Kamakshi Rao, our Senior Investment Director, in an enriching conversation with Taslimarif Saiyed, PhD (CEO of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), Geetha Manjunath (Founder & CEO of Niramai Health Analytix), and Ravi Bhola (Patent Chair, K&S Partners) as they discuss IP development in India, policy changes to support IP based entrepreneurship in the country and much more!
In the current edition of Ankur Capital, we aim to understand how technologies open up new markets for content and context-relevant services even as existing markets get a boost via access to the next billion Indians.
The session was moderated by Dr. Ritu Verma, Partner, Ankur Capital on Wednesday, 10 June at 5:00 pm IST. She will be joined by an accomplished panel comprising:
- Mr. Girish Varadarajan, Head Customer Analytics, Aditya Birla Capital
- Dr. Manuj Garg, Co-Founder, myUpchar
- Mr. Anirudh Maitra, Product Manager, Google Assistant for Next Billion Users
- Mr. Kushagra Sinha, Founder, Jiny (Ankur Capital Portfolio Company)
In the current edition of Ankur Capital, we aim co-learn and discuss how the rapid adoption of digital solutions has brought about a change in the healthcare sector. With various innovations solving for the current needs of a patient, it is important to understand how these digital transformations address the challenges associated with product-market fit and scale to enable positive healthcare outcomes. We were joined by -
- Prashant Tandon, Founder, 1mg
- Joy Chakraborty, COO, Hinduja Hospital
- Pinak Shrikhande, Principal at HealthQuad
- Shailesh Prithani, Founder, Doxper
- Rema Subramanian, Managing Partner, Ankur Capital
In the next edition of the Ankur Capital Dialogues, we focus on consumer food companies and how they can effectively recover from the downturn due to COVID19 and plan their recovery ahead. In the Panel -
- Krishnan Neelakantan, Partner, Ankur Capital
- Ashish Potdar, Business Head, Keya Foods International
- Harpreet Tibb, ex-Director, Marketing, India & South Asia at Kellogg and ex-General Manager, Packaged Goods at HUL
- Mayank Gupta, Founder, ToBeHonest Foods
Kickstarting Ankur Capital Dialogues, we called for all startups that are at the forefront of creating solutions as the world deals with Corona Virus to be a part of the dialogue. We had Ritu Verma from Ankur Capital, Dr. Manish Dewan from BIRAC, Nitesh Jangir from Coeo Labs, Mansur Nazimuddin from MyGate, Jagdeep Gambhir from Karma Healthcare and Dr. Fathima Benazir from Azooka on the panel.