Ankur Capital invests early in deep-tech and agriculture sectors in India before they become mainstream, staffing its investment team with scientists—including a physicist, a semiconductor and quantum researcher, and a biology researcher—who back science only once it's proven in the lab and then fund the harder step of scaling it into real manufacturing and products. The firm has also built its own founder-sourcing programs, argues that India offers a cheaper path to scaling deep-tech companies than other countries, and tends to focus on underserved markets and unglamorous infrastructure problems rather than consumer-facing apps.