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Shiva Shanker

Climate VC at Ankur Capital - Investing in founders and our team

Greater Delhi Area

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2024

    Identifying investment opportunities for the fund, around climatetech, agritech & the future of work Portfolio companies include - Vegrow, BigHaat, Offgrid Energy Labs, Josh Talks, MyCaptain, TBH Foods (Exited), Carmel Organics (Exited)

  • Investment Team

    2018 - 2024

    Building the investment and portfolio analytics teams at Ankur Lead the investment closure process and supervise the investment including through board roles post investment.

  • Portfolio Associate

    2017 - 2018

    Developed internal metrics/ supervision frameworks and dashboards for the fund Lead the investment closure process Worked with a range of portfolio companies to implement technical assistance projects

2015 - 2016

  • Head of Revenue Operations

    2015 - 2016

    Lead the internal revenue functions (pricing, collection, software & hardware system development) at TARA Oorja - a solar minigrid distribution company incubated by Rockefeller Foundation Developed a prepaid payment system based on consumer SMS applications and daily electricity packages. Scaled the model to be profitable until scale was limited once the national grid competed with supply

  • Asia Investment Team, last as Investment Officer

    2012 - 2015

    Invested in skills training, agritech, retail and other sectors including in Jaipur Rugs and Industree (now part of the Future Group). Part of the global portfolio team developing and updating our investment supervision systems. Implementated technical assistance projects ranging from strategic advisory and financial systems to ESG improvements. Numerous board observer positions.

  • Investment Analyst/ Senior Investment Analyst

    2010 - 2012

    2nd person hired in Asia and built the investment teams in Asia (India and Indonesia) as I grew with the organization.

  • Trainee - Corporate Planning & Strategy

    2009 - 2010

    Reporting directly to the head of M&A division as a new team was being set-up internally