Ankur Bansal is Co-Founder & Directors of BlackSoil, which is a new-age venture debt platform also focused on structured and real estate debt. With over 15 years of experience in idea origination, credit, M&A execution, investment thesis, commercial negotiations, and post-deal investment management. Prior to co-founding The BlackSoil Group, Ankur was employed with J P Morgan investment banking, Mumbai where he led and successfully managed deals such as JSW Energy IPO, Persistent Systems IPO, Axis Bank amongst others. He was also associated with CitiGroup where he completed more than two dozen complex capital market transactions encompassing equity, equity-linked as well as retail bond deals across various formats such as IPO, QIP, FCCBs, block trades etc. in 2010,
Ankur co-founded Blacksoil Advisory (niche boutique advisory IB Firm) along with Mr. MP Bansal, to provide advisory & equity support to start-ups & debt support to companies across all sectors. Ankur’s academic background includes a degree from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute and graduation from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics.