Before becoming a venture investor at Emergent Ventures, Ankur Jain worked as an engineer and product leader at companies like Cisco, Digital Island, and SoftAware Networks, holds five technology patents, and studied computer science at IIT Delhi and UCLA before earning an MBA from Wharton as a Palmer Scholar. He has invested across the U.S., India, and Israel, stays closely involved with the companies he backs through board and observer roles, and practices yoga and meditation, crediting it with improving his own stress tolerance and productivity while noting that founders in his portfolio have benefited from it too.