Rema Subramanian's path to venture capital came through running factory floors, holding CXO roles across different industries, and founding and exiting three companies of her own, and she started Ankur Capital after noticing that promising for-profit startups were getting stuck at the seed stage without small amounts of capital or real hands-on management support. She's known for believing science can shift how people behave, not just create new products, and for backing early, unconventional areas like agritech, sportstech, deep science, and data digitization, an approach paired with a track record of helping the businesses she works with grow about 20 times on average.