Take your pick of supply chains across India, and you’ll find similar challenges: fragmentation, informal networks with multiple layers of middlemen, poor price discovery, substandard quality assurance and inefficient logistics. When we dug into the agri-processing industry, expected to be valued at half a trillion by 2025, we found that…

Green is the color for the next decade. The clean energy transition forms the backbone of our sustainable future. Solar has become cheaper than coal — at least in India. But to effectively utilize it, we need to manage the intermittency that comes with renewables. Batteries have become a burning…

The climate crisis is driving the uptake of renewables. Diversifying the global energy mix with renewables will go hand in hand with the need for energy storage over the next decade. There are various types of energy storage technologies, but electrochemical systems — or simply batteries — are the most…

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do!” — Rob Siltanen Over the 4.6-billion-year history of the earth, it has undergone many changes. …

Look at IBM’s career portal and you’ll see that 50% of their U.S. jobs are open to anyone with the right skills regardless of whether they hold a college degree. Just one example of a legacy name hinting at the future of work. Let’s zoom out. A reported 85 million…

It’s 2022 and we are still in our caves. We’re not only referring to covid-induced cloistering. We’re referring to the limitations in our ideas. The Indian ecosystem looks back at 2021 in awe. We minted over 40 unicorns and boosted valuations to the stratosphere all while bringing grocery delivery down…

I have always shopped locally for things I need… a charger, my groceries, medicines, shoes… but that’s been slipping. Yes I am part of the 45% growth that India is seeing for online retail. The 70 million-odd Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) that sell products and services across the country…

By Team Ankur As a fund investing in transformative tech that marries profit with planet good, we are excited by the future of aquaculture. Man has been farming aquatic organisms for thousands of years. Romans farmed oysters around 500 BCE, the Chinese practised freshwater aquaculture some 1000 years earlier, mussel…

By Team Ankur The Office ran for 9 seasons and showcased many nuanced and maybe exaggerated scenes that happen in workplaces around the world all the time. It left us with many sweet, sweet nuggets of wisdom, and these takeaways are specifically for founders building world-class companies. On communication —…