Ankur Jain

Entrepreneur & Investor

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
VC🌍 United States
18
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Seed Investor
2018
Acceldata provides an Agentic Data Management platform that simplifies and speeds the ability for enterprises to deliver trusted data for AI and other initiatives. Founded in 2018, Campbell, CA-based Acceldata developed the worlds first enterprise data observability platform to help enterprises build and operate great data products. Built on that foundation, Acceldatas xLake Reasoning Engine now powers the Agentic Data Management platform. Acceldatas solutions have been embraced by global enterprises such as Nestle, Dun & Bradstreet, Hershey, Pubmatic, HCSC, PhonePe (Walmart), TPG Telecom (Australia), Jenius Bank, Merkle, Pubmatic, and many more. Acceldata investors include Insight Partners, March Capital, Industry Ventures, Lightspeed, Sorenson Ventures, Sanabil, and Emergent Ventures.
Founding Investor and Board Member
2017
Observe.AI is transforming customer service with AI agents that speak, think, and act like your best human agents—helping enterprises automate routine customer calls and workflows, support agents in real time, and uncover powerful insights from every interaction. With Observe.AI, businesses boost automation, deliver faster, more consistent 24/7 service and build stronger customer loyalty. Trusted by brands like Accolade, Prudential, Concentrix, Cox Automotive, and Included Health, Observe.AI is redefining how businesses connect with customers—driving better experiences and lasting relationships at every touchpoint.
Seed Investor
2017
OpsMx simplifies and intelligently automates software delivery, empowering everyone in the process to ship better software faster. OpsMx achieves this vision with the OpsMx Intelligent Software Delivery (ISD) Platform, which makes delivering software using Spinnaker or Argo to multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments fast, safe and reliable. For enterprises that have an existing CD platform, OpsMx offer Intelligent Automation solutions that can accelerate delivery without ripping-and-replacing their existing CD platform. The OpsMx platform delivers maximum flexibility through the open tool and CD engine integrations. Combined with AI-powered intelligent automation and decentralized control, the system enables development teams to ship better software faster. OpsMx ISD offers powerful decision making and enhanced security to achieve an autonomous CI/CD pipeline, delivered as SaaS, managed service, or on-premises. From offices in Silicon Valley and India, our passionate team is dedicated to helping organizations automate their software delivery processes to achieve better business outcomes. OpsMx is funded by top-tier VCs and is constantly looking for great new members to join our team. Follow us on Twitter @Ops_Mx and learn more at www.opsmx.com.
Founding Investor
2016
Building life skills for teens, with proven & measurable Social Emotional Learning (SEL) - for middle & high schools. Vivensity's ImSparked© Program awarded Top-10 EdTech Solution for K12 (StartEd).
Seed Investor
2016
Talview believes every person deserves the right to realize their full potential both academically and professionally. That’s why hundreds of thousands of recruiters and education services leaders in more than 120 countries trust Talview to reimagine, humanize, and democratize their large-scale hiring and credentialing processes. Talview’s award-winning Talent Measurement Platform seamlessly orchestrates talent workflows for screening, interviews, assessments, and proctoring. Organizations looking to make more efficient, effective, and intelligent decisions throughout the talent lifecycle can now access a single, AI-powered platform that helps them do that. With a 360-degree view of talent potential, you can make quick, confident and bias-free decisions to provide an equal opportunity for all. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Talview has offices in India and United Kingdom.
Seed Investor
2016
Bitfusion delivers the industry's first Elastic AI Infrastructure platform.
Seed Investor
2016
Predictive and Generative AI for Customer Support Protect your brand experience. Predict and prevent customer escalations. Observe and act on the voice of the customer in real time.
Investor and Board Observer
2016
We are a passionate team of technology mavericks and we love what we do. Minjar is a premier partner with Amazon Web Services Inc. We are a 100% certified APN partner and has been helping several large enterprises, ISVs and start-ups to productively embrace the cloud.
Founding Investor and Board Observer
2014
San Francisco-based Blueshift helps brands automate and personalize engagement across every marketing channel. The Blueshift Intelligent Customer Engagement platform uses patented AI technology to unify, inform, and activate the fullness of customer data across all channels and applications. With a customer data platform and a cross-channel marketing hub all in one place, Blueshift gives brands all the tools they need to seamlessly deliver 1:1 experiences in real-time across the entire customer journey. Blueshift has been recognized in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for CDP, a Leader in GigaOm’s Radar for CDPs, and in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ lists in 2020 through 2023 as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America. Learn more at blueshift.com.
Founding Investor and Board Observer
2013
Arkin is transforming security and operations for the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC).  Enterprises today face tremendous challenges in migrating from a legacy, perimeter based security model to more modern, distributed, application-centric approaches.  Additionally, technologies such as converged infrastructure and software-defined architectures are introducing additional layers of complexity. With a Google Search-like experience, the Arkin platform is an industry first converged visibility and security operations platform, purpose-built for SDDC. Several F500/G2000 organizations have deployed the Arkin solution to get deep visibility across virtual and physical, implement newer security models such as micro-segmentation, and ensure application uptime, while collaborating better. Visit www.arkin.net or follow us @arkinnet
Investor
2013
Procurify is the Intelligent Spend Management company. We’re on a mission to give all organizations unprecedented visibility and control over their business spend. By bringing more spend under management in one procure-to-pay solution, our customers capture unified spend data that can be harnessed to realize millions of dollars in time and cost savings. Named the #1 Purchasing Leader by G2, Procurify is trusted by hundreds of customers worldwide to manage over US$30 billion dollars of organizational spend. We integrate with major ERP accounting systems such as NetSuite and QuickBooks Online. Take control of spend today.
Board Observer
2013
Helpshift, a subsidiary of Keywords Studios, is a consumer-first digital support platform that provides an efficient, personalized, modern support journey. Conversational AI, machine language translation, automation, and segmentation quickly resolve consumer problems across immersive channels like mobile apps, gaming consoles, and XR experiences in 150+ languages. Get your consumers back online faster with over 50% automation for efficient resolution.
Board Observer
2011
Parse.ly makes working with data easy for creators and marketers, giving them the insights they need to focus their content strategy and prove ROI. Parse.ly is the new measure of content value. Do you work in content marketing, digital media, audience development, corporate communications, or any other role in which your company's content is central to business goals and audience growth? If so, you want a way to win with your content. And Parse.ly can help. Parse.ly is the leading analytics platform for content teams. Parse.ly works with hundreds of enterprises, including premium news publishers, high-growth digital startups, world-renowned entertainment brands, and corporate marketers making the transition to content marketing. Parse.ly is a daily login for the teams behind some of the web's most compelling content strategies, such as Bloomberg, Condé Nast, HelloFresh, WeddingWire, Policygenius, and Slate. What's more, our customers run thousands of sites and apps that attract an audience of billions of people who truly pay attention, and our metrics allow us to understand the trends across this diverse digital audience. Parse.ly measures over 30 unique content metrics -- including content views, engaged time, social interactions, and content conversions. Parse.ly's content analytics system includes a rich dashboard, powerful reporting engine, and flexible developer platform. Getting going with Parse.ly is easy. Talk to a content analytics specialist today to start winning with your content. More on our product: https://parse.ly See our open positions: https://parse.ly/jobs/
Board Observer
2011
BringIt has developed a plug and play monetization and engagement engine which delivers added revenue, engagement, and user retention by adding mini games to existing social games. BringIt’s real-time transactional platform facilitates challenges, tournaments, social leader boards, as well as virtual currency collection and payouts for it’s social gaming publishers. BringIt’s multi-tier solution is language and technology independent so that it can communicate directly with any front end client including mobile and web. BringIt’s platform is easy to integrate, and we are able to handle the client, web app, database, and front end for our partners.
Board Observer
2011
Mobsmith (f/k/a NearbyAd) is a turnkey mobile advertising technology platform. For digital marketers and advertisers who are looking to reduce the time to market for launching a digital campaign, Mobsmith offers a simple yet powerful design tool to create beautiful and intelligent mobile display ad units and landing pages. Unlike current solutions that require custom work to create rich ads, Mobsmith enables anyone to create, target, and distribute highly engaging and consistent ad experiences across the major mobile platforms in minutes. Ads can be personalized for users’ location, publishers’ content, and demographic information, and may include videos, interactive maps, image slideshows, and a comprehensive selection of sophisticated call-to-actions, all without writing a single line of code. Other features include: automated A/B testing, online reporting, third-party tracking, and seamless integration into existing ad-servers to streamline billing and accounting processes.
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2018
Seed Investor
2018
Acceldata provides an Agentic Data Management platform that simplifies and speeds the ability for enterprises to deliver trusted data for AI and other initiatives. Founded in 2018, Campbell, CA-based Acceldata developed the worlds first enterprise data observability platform to help enterprises build and operate great data products. Built on that foundation, Acceldatas xLake Reasoning Engine now powers the Agentic Data Management platform. Acceldatas solutions have been embraced by global enterprises such as Nestle, Dun & Bradstreet, Hershey, Pubmatic, HCSC, PhonePe (Walmart), TPG Telecom (Australia), Jenius Bank, Merkle, Pubmatic, and many more. Acceldata investors include Insight Partners, March Capital, Industry Ventures, Lightspeed, Sorenson Ventures, Sanabil, and Emergent Ventures.
2017
Founding Investor and Board Member
2017
Observe.AI is transforming customer service with AI agents that speak, think, and act like your best human agents—helping enterprises automate routine customer calls and workflows, support agents in real time, and uncover powerful insights from every interaction. With Observe.AI, businesses boost automation, deliver faster, more consistent 24/7 service and build stronger customer loyalty. Trusted by brands like Accolade, Prudential, Concentrix, Cox Automotive, and Included Health, Observe.AI is redefining how businesses connect with customers—driving better experiences and lasting relationships at every touchpoint.
Seed Investor
2017
OpsMx simplifies and intelligently automates software delivery, empowering everyone in the process to ship better software faster. OpsMx achieves this vision with the OpsMx Intelligent Software Delivery (ISD) Platform, which makes delivering software using Spinnaker or Argo to multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments fast, safe and reliable. For enterprises that have an existing CD platform, OpsMx offer Intelligent Automation solutions that can accelerate delivery without ripping-and-replacing their existing CD platform. The OpsMx platform delivers maximum flexibility through the open tool and CD engine integrations. Combined with AI-powered intelligent automation and decentralized control, the system enables development teams to ship better software faster. OpsMx ISD offers powerful decision making and enhanced security to achieve an autonomous CI/CD pipeline, delivered as SaaS, managed service, or on-premises. From offices in Silicon Valley and India, our passionate team is dedicated to helping organizations automate their software delivery processes to achieve better business outcomes. OpsMx is funded by top-tier VCs and is constantly looking for great new members to join our team. Follow us on Twitter @Ops_Mx and learn more at www.opsmx.com.
2016
Founding Investor
2016
Building life skills for teens, with proven & measurable Social Emotional Learning (SEL) - for middle & high schools. Vivensity's ImSparked© Program awarded Top-10 EdTech Solution for K12 (StartEd).
Seed Investor
2016
Talview believes every person deserves the right to realize their full potential both academically and professionally. That’s why hundreds of thousands of recruiters and education services leaders in more than 120 countries trust Talview to reimagine, humanize, and democratize their large-scale hiring and credentialing processes. Talview’s award-winning Talent Measurement Platform seamlessly orchestrates talent workflows for screening, interviews, assessments, and proctoring. Organizations looking to make more efficient, effective, and intelligent decisions throughout the talent lifecycle can now access a single, AI-powered platform that helps them do that. With a 360-degree view of talent potential, you can make quick, confident and bias-free decisions to provide an equal opportunity for all. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Talview has offices in India and United Kingdom.
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