# Ankur Jain

> Ankur Jain is a seed investor at Emergent Ventures backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Emergent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergent-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ankur-jain/0/875/549
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Ankur_Jain_VC
- Website: http://www.emergent.vc

Ankur Jain is a seed investor at Emergent Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Ankur Jain is the Founder and Partner at Emergent Ventures, that leads seed rounds in intelligent enterprise software companies leveraging silicon valley go-to-market while building products in emerging tech hubs such as India. Earlier, Ankur has been a venture investor across US, India and Israel at Nexus Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital.Prior to that, Ankur led product teams at Andiamo Systems and later Cisco which acquired Andiamo in 2004. Prior to that, Ankur held engineering roles at Softaware Networks and later at Digital Island, which acquired Softaware Networks in 2000. Ankur has been a board member or observer for a number of companies. Ankur holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi, a Masters in Computer Science from UCLA, and an MBA in Management from the Wharton School where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. Ankur is also a co-inventor for five technology patents. Ankur is a TiE Charter Member and Chair for TiE San Francisco. Ankur has been a frequent speaker in conferences and forums such as TedX on investing, personal growth & consciousness and is a keen practitioner of yoga and meditation.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 16% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 13% |
| SaaS | 4 | 11% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 34% |
| Series A | 8 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 13% |
| Series B | 4 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 45% |
| India | 3 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lena Health | Text-based Health Assistant for patients. With Lena, clinics can offer callers the option to skip the long call queues and schedule their appointment via SMS-text live chat. Value-based care organizations and payers can offer members a text-based assistant that can take care of health tasks such as scheduling appointments and coordinating theircare. | $2M | Seed | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Sagetap | Sagetap is an exclusive community of expert technologists that help top software vendors align their product strategies to evolving problems within the enterprise | $6.8M | Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| Rocketium | Rocketium is an AI Creative Studio that helps global brands scale their marketing content production with speed, efficiency, and consistency.Most marketing teams struggle with repetitive creative work like resizing, versioning, renaming, and ensuring every asset meets brand or retailer requirements. These tasks slow down campaigns and drive upcosts.Rocketium solves this with AI agents and creative co-pilots that handle the repetitive parts of the creative process. Teams upload a brief, get draft assets in minutes, and can either finalize them independently or with light expert review.The result: - Campaigns go live 2–8x faster - Brands save on hiring and designer hours - Fewer errors and rejections from platforms or partners - The same team supports more campaigns across multiple regions | $5.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| SimpliContract | SimpliContract is an AI and SaaS-based contract lifecycle management platform for authoring and managing contracts. SimpliContract helps companies in increasing revenue, lowering risk, improve compliance, lowering expenses, and increasing productivity. SimpliContract is on a mission to use artificial intelligence to democratize contracting andbuild powerful contract management processes. It supports in-house legal, sales, finance, and procurement teams throughout the contract lifecycle, enabling successful communication between internal and external players. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| SimpliContract | SimpliContract is an AI and SaaS-based contract lifecycle management platform for authoring and managing contracts. SimpliContract helps companies in increasing revenue, lowering risk, improve compliance, lowering expenses, and increasing productivity. SimpliContract is on a mission to use artificial intelligence to democratize contracting andbuild powerful contract management processes. It supports in-house legal, sales, finance, and procurement teams throughout the contract lifecycle, enabling successful communication between internal and external players. | $3.5M | Series A | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| UptimeAI | UptimeAI is an artificial intelligence-based predictive maintenance software provider for companies in heavy industries. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Observe.AI | 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 consistent24/7 service and build stronger customer loyalty. Trusted by brands like SoFi, DoorDash, Uber, 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. | $125M | Series C | Apr 12, 2022 |  |
| Press Hook | Press Hook is the first tech-enabled public relations platform that connects media to brands and publicists at scale. Our system helps thousands of brands, publicists, and journalists connect with each other to facilitate newsworthy stories in a modern world. By streamlining and digitizing the processes of an antiquated industry, we are making thenews cycle stronger and more reliable. Our communication platform matches brands with top journalists who are more likely to write about their products and services. Journalists spend less time sifting through irrelevant pitches while diversifying their sources, and brands get the timely earned media coverage they deserve. The Press Hook unlocks a new marketing channel for the 70 percent of small businesses who need press but don't have the resources for proper media exposure. We are on a mission to help small businesses gain brand awareness in top media publications with our innovative technology-driven solutions. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| SupportLogic | SupportLogic is the leader in support experience (SX) management and post-sales CX observability. The SupportLogic SX platform enables companies to proactively understand and act on the voice of the customer, protect customer relationships and retain revenue. Using predictive and generative AI, SupportLogic extracts and analyzes customer sentimentsignals from both structured and unstructured data and provides recommendations, content and collaborative workflows. SupportLogic is helping global enterprises like Salesforce, Qlik, Nutanix, Rubrik, and Snowflake to prevent customer escalations, reduce churn and elevate the customer support experience. To learn more, visit supportlogic.com. | $50M | Series B | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| Acceldata | Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Campbell, CA, Acceldata began as the world’s first enterprise data observability platform, empowering global organizations to build and operate reliable, high-performing data products. Over time, in close collaboration with leading enterprises like Dun & Bradstreet, AT&T, Oracle, and DBS, Acceldataexpanded its capabilities to become a comprehensive Agentic Data Management Platform.Today, Acceldata uses intelligent agents to monitor, manage, and optimize complex data systems, helping enterprises deliver trusted data at scale with greater speed, reliability, and efficiency.Discover how agentic data management can transform your data operations. | $35M | Series B | Sep 28, 2021 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed India Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners-india) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Dell Technologies Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dell-technologies-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [N47](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next47) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ulu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulu-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Emergent Ventures

VC Fund · San Mateo, United States

Emergent Ventures is a venture firm that invests in seed-stage software and AI startups. Emergent partners early with high-potential entrepreneurs and helps them find product-market fit and develop go-to-market. The firm focuses on the Intelligent Software space, which includes themes such as Enterprise Automation, Intelligent Voice and Video,Logistics-tech, DevOps/Developer Tools, Finance-tech, and Cloud Management

4 contacts available at Emergent Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ankur Jain | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ankur-jain-3 |
| Anupam Rastogi | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anupam-rastogi |
| Indra Singhal | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indra-singhal |
| Rishi Khullar | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rishi-khullar |

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## FAQ

### What does Ankur Jain invest in?

Ankur Jain invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ankur Jain last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ankur Jain closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 38 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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