Name Ankur Jain Parents Naveen Jain | ||
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Alma mater University of Pennsylvania Occupation Founder & Chairman, Kairos SocietyFounder & CEO, Humin Similar People Naveen Jain, Peter Diamandis, Bill Gates, Ray Kurzweil, Robert D Richards | ||
Organizations founded Kairos Society | ||
Isr project on old age home by ankur jain
Ankur Jain (born February 10, 1990) is an entrepreneur, VP of Product at Tinder, and the founder and chairman of the Kairos Society, an organization of young entrepreneurs aiming to solve real-world problems.
Contents
- Isr project on old age home by ankur jain
- Dreama profile ankur jain
- Biography
- Humin
- Kairos Society
- Singularity University
- Other Activities
- References
In 2011, Inc. magazine named Ankur Jain the "Best Connected 21-Year-Old in the World" and awarded Jain "30 Under 30". In 2012, Jain was also named 30 under 30 by CSM. and in 2015, he and his co-founder, David Wyler, were named 30 under 30 by Forbes. In 2017, the World Economic Forum named Jain as a Young Global Leader.
Dreama profile ankur jain
Biography
Ankur Jain was born in Bellevue, Washington to parents from India. He is the son of InfoSpace founder Naveen Jain and Anu Jain, vice president of community relations for Intelius. Jain graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in May 2011.
Humin
Jain was the founder & CEO of Humin, a technology company based in Silicon Valley that is behind the mobile contacts application, Humin, as well as the application, Knock Knock. Jain's contacts app, Humin, has been referred to as a "Social Operating System" and has been named one of the "Top 100 Greatest Innovations of 2014" by Popular Science. Jain has been credited with getting celebrity backers including Richard Branson, will.i.am, and Ari Emanuel behind the company. The company was acquired by Tinder in 2016.
Kairos Society
Ankur Jain is the founder and chairman of Kairos Society. The Kairos Society consists of both a foundation and a venture fund. The foundation brings together the world's top young entrepreneurs alongside CEOs/Heads of State/Media Leaders to develop new technologies in sectors where old industry and governments have failed to innovate. The extensive reach of Kairos Society has resulted in its meetings being dubbed "The most important meeting of young silicon valley players you've never heard of" by Business Insider. The top 25 companies from the Kairos Society have raised over $600mm at a valuation of over $2.5bn in the last four years alone. Jain is also the managing partner of the Kairos Society venture fund alongside Alex Fiance and Ryan Bloomer. The fund has invested in companies ranging from Abaris, which is looking to replace 401k, to Radish Fiction, which is looking to replace traditional publishing.
Singularity University
Jain was selected as one of 80 students (out of 1,800) to participate in the Singularity University Summer Program, an interdisciplinary program based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley, where his father is a trustee.
Other Activities
Jain has been interviewed by major media outlets, including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Inc. on entrepreneurship and philanthropy. In a recent article for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs, Jain wrote about the transformational power of entrepreneurship for young people around the world.
Jain's Kairos Society has been named a partner organization to President Obama's Startup America initiative and received funds from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce under the initiative.