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Ankur Jain
Born
Bellevue, Washington
EducationWharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Founder and CEO of Kairos
Employers
  • Humin (Founder & CEO)
  • Tinder (VP of Product)
Websitewww.ankurjain.net

Ankur Jain is an American entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Kairos. He previously worked as vice president of product at Tinder. He joined Tinder after Humin, the app company he founded in 2012, was acquired by Tinder in 2016. Jain left Tinder in June 2017 to focus exclusively on Kairos, an organization he founded in 2008.

Early life

Ankur Jain was born in Bellevue, Washington, part of the Seattle metropolitan area.[1][2] He grew up in Redmond, Washington and his parents are Anu and Naveen Jain, both entrepreneurs in the technology industry.[3] He launched his first online business Starnium while in seventh grade, and, by age 11, he was running Bored.us and MyOnlineQuiz.com.[4][5]

Jain attended Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. As a freshman in 2008, he founded the Kairos Society, an incubator for young entrepreneurs.[4][6] The society's aim is to create companies focused on "a sustainable and good future". Kairos Society was also named a partner in President Barack Obama's Startup America Partnership.[4]

Career

In 2011, Inc. magazine referred to Jain as "the best-connected 21-year-old in the world".[5][7] After graduating from Wharton,[6] in 2012, Jain founded the San Francisco-based startup Humin with a few of his friends.[8] In January 2014, Jain unveiled an app for managing user's address book in relation to contextual cues like physical location and proximity to their acquaintances.[9][10] In 2016, Humin was acquired by Tinder and Jain also joined the new parent company as vice president of product.[8]

In March 2017, Kairos Society launched a venture capital fund to be managed by Jain, Alex Fiance and Ryan Bloomer.[11] In April 2017, Jain, Fiance, and Bloomer hosted a Global Summit which boasted many high-profile guests.[12][13] The fund with Jain's help has attracted a number of notable board members including Bobbi Brown, David Carey, Ronan Dunne, Michael Dubin, Vicente Fox, Marta Fox, Roger Goodell, Mehmet Oz, and Mark Thompson.[7][14][15] Jain later announced that he will be living his position at Tinder in summer of 2017 to focus solely on Kairos.[1] Jain was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Wolfe, Alexandra (2017-05-19). "A Booster for Young Entrepreneurs". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  2. ^ Colarusso, Gabriella (2017-11-30). "Ankur Jain: «La Silicon Valley ha rimosso i bisogni veri»". pagina99 (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  3. ^ a b Hempel, Jessi (2017-06-28). "The Master Networker Will Connect You Now". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  4. ^ a b c Herrup, Katharine (2011-02-25). "Into the future with the Kairos Society". Reuters. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  5. ^ a b Helm, Burt (2011-06-27). "Meet the Best-Connected 21-Year-Old in the World". Inc.com. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  6. ^ a b Prior, Ryan (2017-05-03). "Inside Kairos Society, a network that could launch the next big startup". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  7. ^ a b Schiller, Ben (2017-11-16). "What Do Dr. Oz, Bobbi Brown, And Vicente Fox Have In Common? Apparently This New Social Entrepreneurship Fund". Fast Company. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  8. ^ a b Lagorio-Chafkin, Christine (2016-03-29). "Why Tinder Swiped Right on This Deal". Inc.com. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  9. ^ McFarland, Matt (2014-01-20). "Humin: The app that uses context to enable better human connections". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  10. ^ Mims, Christopher (2014-07-21). "Meet Your Digital Butler: a 'Social OS'". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  11. ^ Ha, Anthony (2017-03-09). "The Kairos Society, an organization for young entrepreneurs, has raised its own venture fund". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-02-23. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help); no-break space character in |title= at position 88 (help)
  12. ^ Widdicombe, Ben (2017-04-24). "The Silicon Valley-Backed Party That Thinks It Can Change the World". Vanities. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  13. ^ Lopez, Linette (2017-04-29). "Inside young Silicon Valley's elite meeting about the soul of the entire global economy". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  14. ^ Lien, Tracey (2017-11-16). "Forget $700 juicers — this venture fund wants to help solve middle-class problems". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  15. ^ Ioannou, Lori (2017-11-16). "An anti-Silicon Valley fund launches to back moonshots for social good". CNBC. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
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