Nikunj Jain

About Nikunj Jain

Nikunj is an IIT Delhi alum and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honoree in Finance & VC. Over 14+ years, he has built and exited ventures across gaming, social media, blockchain, and AI.His journey began with a bootstrapped Android gaming studio (2011) that hit 150M+ downloads, followed by FranklyMe (2014), a short-video social network backed by Matrix Partners & Bharti Airtel\'s Family Office. In 2016, he co-founded a Blockchain Venture Studio featured in Forbes, and went on to build and sell a Bitcoin mining pool handling 5% of global hashrate. More recently, he created OpeninApp, an AI tool used 80Mn+ Monthly Active Users, by public figures like Giorgia Meloni, Logan Paul, Nikhil Kamath and others. Startup was backed by stalwarts like Naval Ravikant (Angelist), Kunal Shah (CRED), Suhail Sameer (OTP Ventures), Varun Alagh (MamaEarth), Sumit (CoinDCX), Saahil (Shoprocket,) Prashant Tandon (1Mg), Sung Ho (FuboTV), Saurabh Jain (LivSpace) to name a few.As an angel, NJ has led 75+ seed investments, including the first round in Rapido, and is an LP in multiple funds. Today, he is building Vaomi.ai — an AI Chief Capital Officer pioneering how founders and funds raise capital.Nikunj loves helping audacious builders in raising growth stage rounds.Feel free to write to him at n•••@vaomi.ai

Experience

1. 30 Under 30

   Forbes

   Apr 2018 — Present

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  B. Tech

  2006 — 2010

Skills

• Android
• Mobile Advertising
• Strategic Partnerships
• Javascript
• Html
• Growth Hacking
• Mobile Applications
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• User Experience
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Advertising
• Team Management
• Freemium
• Angel Investing
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• User Interface Design
• Virtual Goods
• Consulting
• Video Games
• Entrepreneurship
• Java
• SEO
• Mobile Games
• Business Development
• User Acquisition
• Product Management
• Eclipse
• Start-Ups
• Mobile Devices