Rema Subramanian is co-founder and managing partner of Ankur Capital, an early stage deep science and technology fund. Ankur Capital invests in emerging transformative technologies from India for the world. Ankur Capital is a sector agnostic fund, with a focus on agritech, climate and emerging consumers.

Rema has 4 decades experience in 0 to 100 stages of enterprises, as entrepreneur, investor and in operational roles in others. Her career has been in category creating products and in future forward technology companies. Some of her notable experiences has been the 1st wave of IT sector to digitalization of SMB in late 80’s followed by digitalization of financial service sector in early 90’s to edtech at the start of internet. This gave her the experience in forecasting tech use cases before it become mainstream and identifying business opportunities.

She was involved extensively with SEBI in evolving the rules of Angel Fund guidelines, while setting up India’s first Angel Fund. She plays an active role in the early stage eco-system and was recently involved in the deep tech policy and funding options for the same thru various bodies.

Rema’s diverse strengths across sectors as varied as ITES, education, couture, media and health lends her the ability to accelerate growth for Ankur Portfolio. Rema is a cost accountant- ICWAI, ICSI & Systems Mgmnt -ICFAI. She aims to be inducted into the IVCA to direct her multifaceted and strong experience to the Indian startup ecosystem, about which she is passionate and supremely optimistic.