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Ankur Jain

Co-Founder

Gurgaon, Haryana, India18 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Empowered over 25,000 students across 35+ colleges.
  • Achieved over 90% placement rates for students.
  • Mentored 5,000+ students and funded 15+ startups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in the Education and Startup ecosystem, focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Team ManagementBusiness DevelopmentProduct ManagementSales OperationsStrategyMobile DevicesProduct DevelopmentStart-upsAccount ManagementCompetitive AnalysisMarketingBusiness AnalysisBusiness StrategySoftware Project ManagementKey Account Management

About

Ankur Jain is the driving force behind Sunstone, Vedam, Hostelfund, and CollegeSearch, working relentlessly to make education accessible, affordable, and accountable for Bharat’s youth. With a strong entrepreneurial spirit, he has led initiatives that have empowered 25,000+ students across 35+ colleges, achieving over 90% placement rates and significantly increasing family incomes. As a 40 Under 40 awardee, Ankur has built a strong presence in the $25 billion education market, mentoring over 5,000 students and funding 15+ student startups through Hostelfund. His vision is to leverage technology to revolutionize education, ensuring learning is engaging and impactful for millions.

Experience

18 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Sunstone

2 roles

Co-Founder & CBO

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Chief Business Officer

Feb 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Ashine svnit

Member Board Of Directors

Dec 2021Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Surat, Gujarat, India

  • ASHINE is one of the fastest going startup ecosystem enablers in Gujarat, which supports 60+ startups.

Hostelfund

Founder

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • At HostelFund, we keep our doors open for every aspiring student entrepreneur who wishes to make it big with unconventional ideas.
  • With funding, mentorship and more, we are a first of its kind platform that believes in students and their vision to change the world with novel ideas.
  • We have more than 250+ industry experts and investors on our platform, who are ready to back student entrepreneurs
  • Investor in multiple Student Startups

Founder institute

Mentor

Aug 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Multiple companies

Advisor & Business Consultant

Aug 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Advised multiple companies & Institutes on business, strategy and GTM
  • 1. Modern Bazaar- NCR’s oldest Grocery retail supermarket.
  • 2. AllSport.in - India’s largest integrated sports operating system.
  • 3. Augtraveler - Augmented reality based experiential travel platform promoting culture and heritage of India.
  • 4. Tech-ila - New age tech consulting firm with a focus on AR, VR, Analytics & AI
  • 5. Jabalpur Incubation center- First Govt Incubation center of Central India
  • 6. Medicircle- India’s leading Medical and Pharma digital platform
  • 7. Medical Exchange- Aggregator if medical equipments
  • 8. Zypp Mobility- Helped them in building a sales and BD pipeline
  • 9. LIQVID- Building New avenues of B2C revenues in eLearning
  • 10. SenseAI Ventures- Venture Capitalist @SenseAI and investing in AI startups

Confederation of indian industry

National Startup council Member (2019-21)

Jun 2019May 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • Focus on ongoing initiatives along with taking up new initiatives in 2019-21 towards creating a stronger start-up eco-system in the country. Council proposes to do this by bringing innovation and entrepreneurship at the center stage of the start-up growth story. Council's effort will be to support inculcation of innovation best practices in industry in general and start-ups in particular.

Yourstory media

Director Sales & Business Development

Jul 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • YourStory is India's no.1 media tech platform for entrepreneurs. We are the most credible, loved and sought-after voice in this space, and We reach and inspire millions of young Indians. YourStory began by chronicling India's startup ecosystem and has now extended its focus to include SMBs and local India.
  • We are the single destination for the country's entrepreneurs, providing content, data and networking opportunities and fostering connections amongst all constituents of the ecosystem.

Amazon

Regional Sales & Business Development Head

Sep 2016Jul 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Part of the founding team,which is working to offer Indian customers the fastest and most reliable service to buy leading national brands of daily essential products for home delivery across categories in less than 2 hours
  • Launched India's top 10 Retailers on the platform
  • Leading the Partner (All National & Regional Retail chains) ecosystem
  • To on-board new partners across consumer categories.
  • National Account Manager of India's largest Retail company

Airtel

3 roles

Business Head Franchise Retail- Punjab, Haryana & HP

Promoted

Sep 2015Sep 2016 · 1 yr

  • Managed Airtel's Franchise Retail business of Punjab, Haryana and HP.
  • Headed a team of 15+ zonal managers, who managed 220 franchise retail stores and around 700 front end retail staff.
  • Sales of airtel products and delivering world class customer service were the key deliverables of this role.
  • Developed the airtel retail presence in all major towns of HPHP by opening new stores and managing sales and operations of existing stores.
  • People development, franchise ROI, partner management, self and team career growth were the key focus areas.

Senior Manager- Retail Ops

Aug 2013Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Managed Pan India Sales & Operations of 1750 Franchise Retail stores of Airtel.
  • Responsibility to deliver productivity from existing stores and open new stores
  • Overall responsibility was to achieve financial and Service targets.
  • Liaised with Product, Marketing, Finance, SCM teams for overall success of the team

National Product Manager- Digital education

Feb 2012Aug 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Responsible for Genre's Top Line and Content Strategy for Education products on Mobile, Internet and TV
  • Drove Revenue, New Product Development & Content Innovations in Education segment
  • Managed Customer User Experience and Engagement
  • Key areas- Circle VAS relationships (21 different locations), Vendor Management, Managing around 20 partners
  • Created 4 new mobile/ internet products, which are first of its kind in Indian market in 6 months.
  • One of the products got mbillionth South Asia 2013 Award and is recognized well by the industry

Liqvid

Strategic Alliance Manager- Mobile & Online

Apr 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Business Development Leader- Mobile & Telecom
  • Business Development & Strategy: Partnered with all major Mobile operators of India and brought national VAS players on board. Tied up with Handset manufacturers
  • Channel development to sell devices-Sales management experience in developing account plans, opportunities and pipeline management, revenue and design win forecasting and revenue collection and closed one of the largest accounts.
  • Product Development: Different SMS, IVR and WAP based VAS across channels
  • Key account management across all channels
  • Responsible for Product-Portfolio Management/Revamping, New Product Launch, Customer Service Delivery [Across Value Chain]
  • Responsible of Top and Bottom line, Cost Benefit Analysis and Vendor Management

Connect2mba

Founder

Aug 2009Apr 2010 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Connect2MBA is the largest network of MBA aspirants, MBA students and MBA professionals...

Liqvid elearning services pvt ltd

Summer Trainee

Apr 2009Jun 2009 · 2 mos

Atos origin

Oracle DBA

Jun 2006Jun 2008 · 2 yrs

  • Database management of 9 clients across world.
  • Managing resource allocation and participation in international audits

Education

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

PGDM

Jan 2008Jan 2010

National Institute of Technology Surat

BE — Electronics

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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