Vishal Aman

Background

About Vishal Aman

At Ankur Capital, I lead investments in early stage startups (seed and pre-Series A) across Fintech, AI, Industrial and Manufacturing sectors. I also work closely with our portfolio companies in their 0-1, 1-10 journeys, leveraging my operator experience in strategy, business and operations to help them scale and succeed Portfolio companies: Saswat Finance, Rupifi, IBISA (Fintech), Agrizy (B2B Food Processing), SportVot (Consumertech in Sports) Prior to joining the fund, I was in leadership roles at OkCredit and Belong.co, across strategy, business and operations. In my long-running role as Chief of Staff, I was responsible for defining long-term strategies, building structures and systems of execution, leading fundraising efforts that enabled us to achieve our objectives. In pursuit of this, I had hands-on experience of building things from scratch in product and business across Payments, Digital Lending, Insurance, SMB tech, Enterprise Sales, Marketplaces etc. An engineer by education from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, I'm a strong advocate of first-principles thinking, systems-led approach and loves building things in a scalable and sustainable manner to unlock the true potential of ideas over a long run