Ankit Anand is a Founding Partner at Riceberg Ventures, a Zurich-based early-stage deep tech venture capital firm. His academic foundation in Physics from ETH Zurich, coupled with his experience as a researcher in the Nobel Prize-winning LIGO-Virgo collaboration project for gravitational wave observation, lays a solid ground for his scientific expertise.

Ankit's entrepreneurial journey spans across various sectors in India and Europe, having founded and operated multiple startups. This gives him a hands-on entrepreneurial experience that he seamlessly weaves together with his scientific acumen, providing more than just capital to the startups in Riceberg Ventures' portfolio. Notable investments of Riceberg Ventures include companies like Signatur Biosciences, Manastu Space, and EtherealX. He grew up in Bihar and did his schooling at JNV Saran and Patna Science College; he started his career in Patna as a physics teacher.