Amrita Sarkar, Ph.D., MBA

Ankh Impact Ventures supports visionary changemakers with a strong sense of purpose who engage all contexts, cultures, and disciplines and think “outside the box” in building a more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable future. Our “open architecture” approach to investing for impact means we not only invest directly in early-stage startups, but we also invest in other mission-driven, for-profit platforms such as first time female emerging impact funds, labs, accelerators & incubators, studios, labs, and public-private partnerships. We focus on diverse founders at the initial stages of development of their startups or other platforms across all geographies globally.

Invested in impact investment fund I&P to accelerate the development of Inclusive Business at Air Liquide.

Interdisciplinary PhD in a joint program between the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. Research focus on building mathematical models of cardiac cells in order to understand the factors responsible for the development of arrhythmias.

One of the few students chosen for a specialized MBA program open to engineers and scientists where their technical backgrounds are supplemented by business courses as well as hands-on work experience at prominent French companies during a period of 10 months.

I wrote two senior Honors theses in both my majors: Mathematics: Galois Theory and Geometric Impossibilities Biochemistry: Homology Models of Putative Carboxypeptidases of Borrelia burgdorferi