Akshay Jain

About

Companies are missing key signals potential customers actively leave across social sites. These interactions, conversations, and community engagement represent vital but currently untapped revenue or GTM Playbook. We turn social clues into revenue for B2B companies. InGrow operates across Reddit, LinkedIn, X, Slack, Medium Etc.

Experience

• Founder · InGrow2025-06-01 – Present

  Turn social clues into warm leads. We find customers hiding in plain sight by listening to social conversations and deliver them straight to your GTM team.

• Investor · Alhena2022-12-01 – Present

  Ashu (Founder of Alhena AI) is an amazing person who priorly lead the product team at LinkedIn. They have an amazing team with expertise in building AI solutions and are currently developing an AI concierge for e-commerce brands to boost conversions and revenue growth. The company has raised $4.3 million from Slow Ventures and 6th Man Ventures. Alhena is also part of South Park Commons.

• Investor · Neo AI2024-09-01 – Present

  Neo AI is bringing AI-based personalization into ed-tech. They identify key learning gaps using AI assessments and craft personalized learning paths to help students grow quantitatively in a fun and engaging way. They are super early and growing.

• Co-Founder (Non-Profit) · Snaphire2021-12-01 – 2023-02-01

  Snaphire is mostly something I do very passively and as a passion project focused on helping founders hire great engineering talent. The key insight here is that most startups do outbound outreach to hire top engineering talent. So to add extra value for founders, I'd run Lemlist campaigns to just refer a few solid interested engineers for early stage founders.

• Investment Analyst · Gemba Capital2020-12-01 – 2022-03-01

  Landed at Gemba Capital after growing my content group to 1,000+ founders and VCs. In a tight team of three, I built thesis, reached out to well experienced top-tier early stage founders, and joined partner calls. Led by Adith Podhar’s expertise, we targeted fintech, plus some marketplace and SaaS plays, seeking strong founders, products, and markets. Great ride backing bold ventures! [Investments: Plum Insurance, Grip Invest, Wint Wealth and 17+ during my tenure here]

• Content Curator · Startup|Akshay2020-09-01 – 2022-02-01

  I started this to break into a VC fund job, which is slightly tough in India with so few funds focused on big, scalable startups. I was reading a lot on Twitter and blogs to learn about the startup world, so I created a group to share useful Twitter threads and posts from founders and funds. I’d pick five links a day to share, and people from Sequoia, Lightspeed, Accel, and founders like those from Lenskart and FamPay started checking it out regularly. Over a year, it grew to about 1,000 founders and VCs. It was fun!

• Co-Founder · Skytrails2019-08-01 – 2020-01-01

  We spotted a great opportunity when the Maldives traveler market spiked by 59.6% in 2019. After deep research, we built a solid business model for honeymooners, leveraging our clear target audience, expertise, and clever sales markups. Within months, we were generating decent revenue. We didn't scale to other locations as it was an operations-heavy endeavor, which I dislike, so we ran it for a few months for fun.

• Marketing Lead · Creative Caffeine India2015-12-01 – 2017-07-01

  A Slightly Geeky Team with Impeccable Designs, I loved working here, Major businesses I landed were from Construction Industry: Booming Market, Tough Sales, Huge Pay, I was well aware of the facts, Newspaper/Social Media Ads & Marketing Collaterals was the work. Prestige Group, HM Constructions were few of the Big Names. *Learned: Primary|Secondary Market Research, CAC & LTV, Core Foundation of Design (UX, UI & Visual), Productivity Tools, Business Unit Economics, Planning Company Strategic RoadMap, Etc.

• Family Business · Numerous Companies2012-04-01 – 2016-07-01

  Started by learning the ropes with my dad and brother-in-law in their jewelry and diamond businesses. As profit-driven Marwaris, I mastered cost-cutting and optimization early, driving our growth. Based in Mumbai and Hong Kong, I sharpened my skills in high-stakes, family-run ventures. Convinced that tech is key to scale, I joined a startup in e-commerce and relocated to Bangalore, ready to dive into new horizons!

Education

• St Francis ICSE SchoolComputer Science, Not Specified

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