Ananya Chandra

Ananya is Managing Partner of Innopact, an early-stage investor in technology startups targeting women and other underserved customers in India and other emerging markets. She also leads Women Prosperity Lab, a startup enabler backing the future of ‘tech for women’.

Ananya previously co-headed Accelerating Growth of New India’s Innovations (AGNIi), the flagship innovation initiative of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. Here, she collaborated with key national and international stakeholders to promote the commercialization and scale-up of innovative technologies across India.

Prior to AGNIi, Ananya has been a serial entrepreneur. She was co-founder and COO of Just Move, an award-winning health-tech startup with marquee investors, that she led to exit in 2016. Ananya has also led the expansion of India’s largest womentech startup, Sheroes, into South East Asia.

Ananya started her career with international law firm Clifford Chance LLP in London, with stints in Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Ananya is an alumni of HEC Paris (Msc. In Innovation and Entrepreneurship), Stanford Seed, and National Law School, Bangalore (B.A., LL.B) and has lived and worked in 8 countries.

SDG 3: Health and wellbeing

Experience snapshot:
– Emerging market healthtech entrepreneur (cofounder & COO, Mobile Health Solutions)
– Health innovation commercialization enabler (co-head, AGNIi, Government of India)
– VC investor – Even Healthcare (best healthcover for Indians), Feebris (upskilling a non-clinical workforce to conduct clinical grade patient examination and triage)

SDG 5: Gender Equality

Experience snapshot:
– Emerging market female entrepreneur (cofounder & COO, Mobile Health Solutions)
– Former Head of Expansion at SHEROES – India’s largest women’s only social network
– VC Investor, Mahila Money – Women’s only neobank for the aspirational Indian woman

SDG 9: Innovation

Spent the last decade sitting on various sides of the innovation table – first as an entrepreneur, then at the national level with the Govt of India to help build and scale the national innovation commercialization program, and now as an investor investing in high-impact innovative startups.