Nida Ansari

Founder of karmic partners

Indianapolis, Indiana

Overview

Nida Ansari is a seasoned executive with a background in scaling and disrupting businesses, serving as the Chief Innovation Officer at 16 Tech Innovation District and Founder/CEO of karmic partners. She has made significant impacts in the fields of innovation, supply chain optimization, and global sourcing, and has a strong track record in angel investing and venture capital, with investments in companies like Loris. Ansari's career highlights include leading the 16 Tech Innovation District and founding karmic partners, showcasing her abilities as a builder and scaler in the business world. She has also made impactful investments in various sectors, including Generative Tech/AI and CleanTech, demonstrating her strategic acumen as an angel investor.

Work Experience

karmic partners

Founder and CEO
2023 - Current
Karmic Partners helps founders, innovators, and other players in entrepreneurial ecosystems innovate and scale. We offer fractional CXO services, strategic planning, customer research and development, and innovation team development, ecosystem building and storytelling services.

16 Tech Innovation District

Chief Innovation Officer
2023
Managing innovation, membership experience and programming for the largest innovation district in Indiana. Currently tasked with building a team to develop the Innovation and Entrepreneurship function at the district. Secured 11 additional accelerator cohorts annually and an ARPA-H spoke designation in the first 12 months. Co-led effort for EDA biotech hub grant and received $51MM.

16 Tech is a 50-acre innovation district in downtown Indianapolis dedicated to world-changing innovation and economic opportunity.

Raised $40,000.00 from The Indianapolis Foundation.

16tech.com

Hardtech Indiana

Founding Member
2022
Hardtech Indiana is a coalition on thought leadership and program development and our goal is to create and elevate the ecosystem of partners and founders to enable hardtech in Indiana. We hope to support entrepreneurs and highlight resources to support company growth, get started, find talent, funding and mentorship and more.