Feb 2019 – Nov 2025 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Melbourne, Australia

• Mentoring Early stage start-ups into Edu-Tech, Events, Energy, Biotechnology & other related areas in marketing, branding, growth and go-to-market strategies.

Sep 2018 – Sep 2018 · 0 mo · Shanghai City, China

• Selected as top 35 people from all over the world into the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School by Social Entrepreneurship Akademie.
• Working with a team of 5 people in the 'Waste' sector under aims of SDGs.
• Raised funds from LinkedIn community & Corporates in less than 12 hrs to cover my travel necessary expenses of around USD1500.

Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 · 2 mos · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• I started my journey at ViaSpeak from Day 0 at Asia Pacific Innovation Academy in Shenzhen University.
• Events have been an area of interest for attendees and speakers for learning and sharing knowledge.
• Excellent Speakers or field experts on the other hand have been underutilised in events across different geographies.
• At ViaSpeak we are solving the problem of discovery of speakers and events in a dynamic and current location specific manner which helps speaker to get more speaking gigs and also enhance their branding.
• Also the events save on their budgets and face less hassle to make the event better.
• I am working with 4 international entrepreneurs from different continents on this solution.
• As a Founder, I am helping my team with business partnerships, technology development and marketing.

Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• At ForeignAdmits we aspire to build the Internet of Education using Knowledge Graph developed by us and millions of users.
• foreignadmits.com was started with an aim to provide Clear, Unbiased, Professional & Swift guidance to higher education aspirants.
• foreignadmits is a technolgy enabled personalized mentorship platform for consulting higher education aspirants for foreign universities & brighter career.
• Using AI, ML and Deep Learning we have been building a platform to accelerate your career search & mapping to college selection & admission guidance.
• We have over 200 mentors globally from top Universities to guide aspirant in an open and personalized manner.
• To build partnerships or to speak about funding or speaking opportunities please write to me at nikhil@foreignadmits.com
• We have mentored over 5000 students & have helped over 100 applicants to land up in their dream universities.

Jun 2018 – Nov 2025 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Selected as a Mentor for mentoring school students in becoming Innovators. Guiding them the value of learning tricks of the trade to the basic understanding of Entrepreneurship and Research.
• School Name: Parshuram Mahadev Shinde Kanya Vidyalaya Dahiwadi
• School State: Maharashtra
• School City: Nagpur
• Mentoring students and young Entrepreneurs for starting into the the phase of Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
• As a mentor, I am already helping College students and Freshers secure better opportunities and be a better professional in life by helping them with right resources and learning experiences.

Mar 2018 – Aug 2018 · 5 mos · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• Selected with full scholarship, i.e., €1699, covering the entire fees for European Innovation Academy for a 1+3 week Asia Pacific Innovation Academy Summer School Program in Shenzhen, China.
• Raised the fastest crowdfund in less than 24 hrs for covering the travel and accommodation expenses (approximately $1200)
• Here is a link to my experience sharing about crowdfunding- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learn-how-i-did-fastest-crowdfunding-experience-raising-nikhil-jain/

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Selected as a Delegate from India for H-PAIR 2017 in Sydney by Harvard University in the track- Environment & Sustainability.
• The whole expenses were bourne by my followers and backers, since I was fully supported via Crowdfunding.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

• Its a facebook group as of now and in future hopefully an expanded community of researchers and entrepreneurs.

Jan 2017 – Apr 2017 · 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• The Research Scholars’ Confluence and Alumni meet, 2017 popularly known as ReSConAm’17 was a global conference and R&D expo held on the 18th and 19th of March, that gave researchers, entrepreneurs, scientists, startups and Industrialists an opportunity to interact and exchange scientific and business ideas.
• ReSConAm’17 had a total participation of about 300, including scientific presentations, workshops and start-up expos from various institutes across the country.
• There were product based Startups on Solar energy, IoT, and many more areas. There were 4-6 investors, accelerators and incubators in the attendee list for funding startups.
• I worked with and led a team of around 50 volunteers to make this event a grand success. With over 99% positive feedbacks from participants and guests, ReSConAm'17 concluded on a higher note.

Apr 2016 – May 2016 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• ◆ I have helped the company with a head start in SEO, keyword research, business listing improvement.
• ◆ I have helped in designing marketing plans and creative campaigns for online and offline marketing and also for social media.
• ◆ I have helped in monitoring and troubleshooting all issues related to the Google Webmaster and Analytics account of the company.
• ◆ I had guided a team of campus ambassadors across the nation for improving business development and online engagement of the company.

Jan 2016 – Mar 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• ShopUp ( www.shopsup.com ): Find Store near You, Try your product before you buy. Liked a dress or a shoe, just click and search in your nearest store. Buy Apparels and accessories. Download App on Play Store
• I have helped them with strategy planning and idea execution regarding:
• Market analysis (digital, mobile, social and local) to identify market and customer trends.
• SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media and display advertising campaigns
• Designing, Building, Maintaining Measuring and Reporting performance of the social media presence of ShopsUp.
• Brainstorming new and creative growth strategies & Collaborating with internal teams to create landing pages and optimise user experience.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to plan, deliver and execute successful mobile marketing campaigns (SMS, QR, Push Notifications, Email, Coupons / Digital Ads).
• Also helped in hiring for digital marketing team : SEO executives, content writers, social media executives, graphic designers, videographers.

May 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra

• Switch & Swift team help your organisation with change management, employee engagement, leadership training, executive coaching, and more. http://switchandshift.com/
• ◆ I am helping them with Competitive analysis, SEO, SEM and Social media strategies.
• ◆ With implemented strategies the SEO parameters like bounce rate, sessions, the number of new users, have been improved over past few months. I have also been troubleshooting all webmaster and search console issues and errors for the website.
• ◆ I have improved lead generation rate by implementing better the Call-To-Action buttons and improved website quality and user experiences with growth hacking techniques.
• ◆ I have been doing trends analysis and SWOT analysis for qualitative as well as quantitative data to encourage changes and updates in campaigns and marketing strategy and client building.

May 2015 – Jun 2015 · 1 mo · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• • Received training at five different units with individual specializations along with data analysis of productivity of 20 wells and jobs efficiency, submitted as final project-report including job details of hydraulic fracturing, acidization, nitrogen flushing, coil tubing, sand control operations in sandstone, siltstone like reserve.

Feb 2015 – Mar 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Youtern is about: search of internships perfect for your career path with our internship search function. See YouTern’s blog for tips on making your internship a success!
• I am helping them with
• ◆ Creation Marketing Plans and handling social media page for the company's official page: Youtern.
• ◆ Competitive analysis, SEO, SEM and Social media strategies.
• ◆ With implemented strategies the SEO parameters like bounce rate, sessions, the number of new users, have been improved over past few months. I have also been troubleshooting all webmaster and search console issues and errors for the website.
• ◆ I have improved lead generation rate by implementing better the Call-To-Action buttons and improved website quality and user experiences with growth hacking techniques.
• ◆ I have been doing trends analysis and SWOT analysis for qualitative as well as quantitative data to encourage changes and updates in campaigns and marketing strategy and client building.

Feb 2015 – Apr 2015 · 2 mos · Online

• Led a team of six interns in online marketing and advertising campaigns and planned 6 months branding strategy, for launch of a new product, 'Startup Fuse'.
• Also increased 3000+ likes of company’s official Facebook page by organic campaigns.
• Generated over 20 leads by online marketing campaigns and cold calling.Further assisted in hiring over 30 interns nationwide among 500+ incoming applications.

Dec 2014 – Dec 2014 · 0 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Performed laboratory experiments for acquiring geo-technical and geo-chemical properties of Indian Shale. Also performed lab-tests for analysis of pore pressure in a bore well and fracture propagation.
• Analyzed results of stress-strain relations upon analysis of fracture generation in the samples of Indian shale through laboratory experiments and also on comparison with modeling on COMSOL multiphysics and simulated results for whole test reserves.

Sep 2014 – Dec 2014 · 3 mos · Varanasi Area, India

• 500+ people were engaged in marketing and publicity events at the college and further increased the enrollments into website by around 20% and increased application downloads of COGXIO, a brand of the company by 15%.
• 1000+ likes were reached and post reach by 3000+ users were accomplished in a two week campaign during college events.
• Content and media management for COGXIO along with partial assistance in hiring process for company.

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Roorkee, India

• Guide: Dr Vikram Vishal (Asst. Professor , Dept of Earth Science, IIT Roorkee)
• Work Done:
• Developed real-time models depicting fracture propagation in Indian shale reservoir.
• Also accomplished impact analysis of variation in injection pressure upon stability and geotechnical properties of fractures using geomechanics and fracture mechanics module of COMSOL Multiphysics.
• Further predicted most accurate behaviour and dependence of parameters on behaviour changes.
• Generated a report and wrote a paper based on model results and theoretical study of Indian and foreign conditions of shale reservoir stability and behaviour of various parameters affecting fracture propagation.
• Co-Authored a technical paper.
• Link to the paper: http://140.116.228.7/download/25-4/25-4-4.pdf
• Cite: Vishal, V., Jain, N., & Singh, T. N. (2015). Three-dimensional modelling of propagation of hydraulic fractures in shale at different injection pressures. Sustainable Environment Research, 25(4).

Dec 2013 – Dec 2013 · 0 mo

• Guide/ Mentor: Mr. Amit Grover, CEO, Nurture Talent Academy.
• Selected as one of two excellent performers in six months of virtual internship, from a batch of 100 interns hired nationally.
• 50+ leads were generated via cold calling to school and college students for paid workshops conducted by the company.
• Over 20 workshops were conducted in around 10 schools in New Delhi and Noida by us.

Jul 2013 – Dec 2013 · 5 mos

• Selected as Starpreneur for the program "​ Starpreneur, 2013" and given task of a campus manager for IIT (BHU) Varanasi.
• Tasks:
• Organization of a entrepreneurial and idea development workshop, conducted by an expert having participation of 100+ students.
• Published marketing and communication materials and even advertorials of the company across 100+ groups and thus getting 1000+ likes and engagements with facebook page of the company.

Nov 2013 – Oct 2014 · 11 mos · Varanasi Area, India

• EditEngine was earlier an Editing & Proofreading company assisting researchers & careerists with their documents.Later, it added the role of becoming a digital media marketing consultancy serving partially in content management and generation works. It assists companies, brands, start-ups, ventures and events in strategizing their social media publicity and marketing on all social media channels and platforms. It also assists in content editing and proofreading by experts of individual fields.

Jul 2013 – Jan 2014 · 6 mos · Varanasi Area, India

• Plan Harbor incubate the individuals and assist them with our best to figure out the snags and hitches of their start-up. Plan Harbor started with the maxim of materialising the new-fangled entrepreneurs. This has been done by the Plan Harbor through their various programmes.
• I have helped them with:
• 1500+ enrolments that were sought across local Indian colleges and also among premiere colleges by online campaigns and further successfully managed conduction of a national level coding event.
• Over 10 colleges were engaged and were made an association with for establishment of technology and entrepreneurship hub.

Jul 2013 – Dec 2013 · 5 mos · Varanasi

• As a City–coordinator, organized, managed and completed Rio+21, an international campaign across Varanasi, supported by UNESCO and Indian Astrobiological Research Centre, Mumbai, along with conduction of a national level examination witnessing over 800 students and professionals all across Varanasi. Even organized guest lectures conducted by eminent national celebrities in field of water conservation and sustainability.

Jun 2013 – Jul 2013 · 1 mo · Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

• Project on "Study on Guided Re-fracturing in tight reservoir for optimizing gas production"
• Guide: Principal Scientist Dr. M. Sundararajan, CSIR: CIMFR, Dhanbad.
• Key roles:
• Developed an outlook on efficient and economic aspect of guided re-fracturing method in tight reservoir for optimizing tight gas production. Also done analysis on fracture behavior, shut in pressure and re-fracturing pressure for optimization production.

May 2013 – Jun 2013 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Project: Numerical modelling of hydraulic fracturing in shale reservoir using COMSOL multiphysics.
• Guide: Dr. T.N. Singh, Professor, Dept of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay.
• Work done:
• Learnt and modeled via numerical methods, migration of fluids through hydraulically fractured reservoirs using COMSOL multi-physics and thus predicted fracture propagation behavior in limestone and shale reservoir based on post simulation data.