Ankita Singh, investment director at Bosch Ventures, is one of our top 50 Rising Stars in corporate venturing for 2025.
Ankita Singh is one of the few people who have achieved an MBA and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at the same time. She followed up her degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a consulting job at Boston Consulting Group.
After moving into the private equity team, she decided she wanted a role where her diligence work could be seen through the investment stage and beyond. This led her to Bosch Ventures, which was putting together an office in nearby Boston.
“Bosch Ventures is an excellent mix of technical and financial people,” she says. “My background, coming from consulting, also brings out the strategy side of things – being able to see a company’s potential in terms of market sizing, in terms of the strategic aspects.”
Singh’s first investment at Bosch was in data centre cooling startup JetCool, which was recently acquired by industrial electronics producer Flex. She retains her links to MIT through a part-time role supporting an engineering lab, and is making the most of those to get eyes on breakthrough technologies early on.
“Coming from consulting brings out the strategy side of things – being able to see a company’s potential in terms of market sizing, in terms of the strategic aspects”
“A technology that comes out of a lab probably takes three years at a minimum to become mature enough to become a startup,” she says. “What I bring is that relationship aspect with the team or the lab early on, so that we have enough time to understand the technology, its potential and the team behind it.”
Singh describes the investment director position as one that incorporates everything she had done before, and the breadth of technologies she looks at makes the most of her experience in deep-tech diligence.
“Over a span of six months, one day I am learning about the deep weeds of cybersecurity, the next day it is data centres, the next day battery recycling,” she says. “Things are different, but they are equally interesting – they are very cutting-edge technologies.”
See the full list of Rising Stars 2025 here.
