Sumit Kumar Jain (born 13 June 1984) is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He started online real-estate portal

Commonfloor.com CommonFloor.com is an Indian real estate portal founded in 2007 by three computer science graduates from IIT Roorkee and JSSATE. On 8 January 2015, CommonFloor received funding from Google Capital. On 7 January 2016, the classifieds advertisin ...

for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with

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. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for

CommonFloor CommonFloor.com is an Indian real estate portal founded in 2007 by three computer science graduates from IIT Roorkee and JSSATE. On 8 January 2015, CommonFloor received funding from Google Capital. On 7 January 2016, the classifieds advertising ...

as well as delivering on company goals. On 7 January 2016, the classifieds advertising platform

Quikr Quikr, is an Indian online marketplace and classified advertising company, based in Bangalore, India. It was founded by Pranay Chulet. Quikr has listings in over 1000 cities in India in categories such as mobile phones, household goods, cars ...

announced that they acquired CommonFloor. After 1 year of acquisition, Sumit moved out of Quikr. In July 2017, Sumit along with Co-Founder Ashwani Jain launched Opentalk, a social voice app aimed to help users become better at speaking English by talking with other English speakers. Sumit is now the Co-Founder & CEO of Graphy.com, a platform to help the creators grow their audience, monetize their skills, and host live cohort-based courses.

Early life

Born and brought up in

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, a small town in

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, India. Sumit's father had a shop where he sold building products, in which he spent most of his time when a child, and sometimes his father left the store under his care for days, telling him not to call him for any reason.

Career

Sumit graduated as a computer engineer from the

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee) is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is the oldest engineering institution in India, and was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in Bri ...

in 2006. After a short spell with Oracle Server Technologies, he decided to start his own business and in 2007 he started

with Lalit Mangal and Vikas Malpani. He sold CommonFloor to Quikr in Jan 2016 and worked with Quikr for a year. He started Opentalk in 2017 along with Ashwani Jain. He Co-founded Graphy.com in 2020 along with Sushil Kumar, Shobhit Bakliwal, and Fiona Leong.

Awards and recognition

* Fortune 40 Under 40 * Dataquest’s list of the 25 Hot Indian Web 2.0 start-ups * Business World Hottest Young Entrepreneurs * Listed in Power Profiles in India for the year of 2015 * Younger Achiever of the Year 2015' by National Awards for Excellence in Real Estate & Infrastructure

References

External links

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Sumit Jain on Facebook
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jain, Sumit Living people Businesspeople from Bangalore Indian software engineers Engineers from Karnataka IIT Roorkee alumni 1984 births People from Muzaffarnagar district