Sanjay Jain
Investment Committee

Sanjay is a partner at the Bharat Innovation Fund, which invests in early stage companies that use Intellectual Property as a business differentiator. At CIIE.CO, Sanjay leads the efforts at the Bharat Inclusion Initiative to bring more people into the formal economy and workforce in India.

Sanjay is also a fellow at iSPIRT, the software product industry think tank.  He has been one of the key contributors to help create and evangelize various government APIs which have led to the digitization of various processes.

Sanjay is also the chair of the technology committee for the Modular Open Source Identity Platform - MOSIP - that helps user organizations such as Governments implement a digital, foundational ID in a cost effective way, while embracing the best practices of scalability, security, and privacy, harnessing the power of open source.

During his career, Sanjay has been responsible for the development of many large scale, high impact systems. As a volunteer with iSPIRT, he worked with NPCI to define the Unified Payment Interface.  He was the Chief Product Manager at the UIDAI, which has issued over a billion numbers to Indian residents.  He was also responsible for the creation and launch of Google Map Maker - a crowd-sourced mapping product that is responsible for Google Maps data for 170+ countries.

Sanjay holds an M.S. in Computer Science, from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Occasionally, Sanjay can be found behind a camera wondering how to capture the wildlife on the other side.