Ankur Jain
Investor
The world needs more founders. Imagine where humanity could be if more people brought the same level of conviction and agency that founders pour into their work.
The world needs more founders. Imagine where humanity could be if more people brought the same level of conviction and agency that founders pour into their work.
Ankur is a Senior Associate at Pear, focused on investing in AI applications, developer tools, & infrastructure. Most recently, Ankur was a software engineer at Google’s first moonshot company, Verily Life Sciences, where he built tech-enabled solutions to combat opioid addiction. His experience also includes PM & engineering stints at Meta, Google, and NASA’s JPL.
Ankur was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Southern California. At the age of 15, he taught himself how to build iOS apps without owning a Mac, and launched an edtech app used by over 70K students.
He went on to graduate from the inaugural class of UC Berkeley’s Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (M.E.T.) program with degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Business Administration. At Berkeley, he spent his time conducting research with NLP at the law school, teaching CS, and representing his classmates. Ankur is based in San Francisco.
What is your most used emoji?
🫡
What’s your favorite book?
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. It’s everything – heartfelt, hilarious, and poignant.
What career path did you want to pursue when you were a kid?
An astrophysicist. I still remember being completely blown away as a kid when I found out that looking at stars through a telescope meant literally looking back in time.
What are your favorite sports teams?
Lakers and the Giants!
What are your hobbies outside of work?
Tennis, anything music related, geocaching, volunteering with kids (fun fact: used to work at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park).
Previous Experience
- Engineering at Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google X)
- Founder of BioPrep (edtech app used by 70k+ students)