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Build sharper products.
Move faster.

Lotus X Ventures is where product strategy, AI execution, and venture building come together. Led by Ankit Jain, we help teams launch new products, tighten growth systems, and turn strong ideas into shipping businesses.

10+
Years operating

Across product, strategy, growth, and digital transformation.

8+
Products shipped

AI, fintech, job discovery, events, and blockchain surfaces.

F500
Enterprise range

Walmart, Google, BCG, KPMG, and venture-backed startups.

0→1
Zero-to-one

From concept shaping through live launch and ongoing iteration.

§ 01 Founder

Ankit Jain builds at the intersection of product, strategy, and execution.

Founder of Lotus X Group and senior product operator with experience across Walmart, Google, BCG, KPMG, startup consulting, and zero-to-one venture building.

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Ankit Jain · Founder & CEO

Senior product and strategy leader building Lotus X as a fast-moving platform for AI ventures, advisory, and execution-heavy consulting.

We operate in the gap between operator, builder, and founder. That means strategy decks, shipped interfaces, AI workflows, and market-facing product decisions all get handled in one motion — no handoff, no translation loss.

— Ankit Jain Founder & CEO · Lotus X Group
01 / Product

Product leader

Omni-channel commerce, AI and ML requirements, analytics systems, growth, marketplaces, and end-to-end delivery.

02 / Venture

Founder operator

Runs Lotus X as a venture studio and advisory platform, shipping products while supporting founders on GTM, decks, and product clarity.

03 / Strategy

Consulting mindset

Comfortable moving from executive narrative and strategy work into detailed execution, experimentation, research, and launch.

§ 02 Capabilities

Strategy, systems, and execution in one stack.

Best fit for founders, startup operators, and innovation teams that need more than advice. The work is hands-on, fast, and tied to launch outcomes.

01

Product strategy

Roadmaps, opportunity sizing, feature prioritization, user journeys, and founder-level product positioning.

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02

AI workflow design

LLM feature definition, automation architecture, signal pipelines, and operator-friendly AI systems.

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03

Launch acceleration

Decks, GTM planning, investor materials, shipping support, and fast design-to-live execution.

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§ 03 Portfolio

Products built to prove the model.

Lotus X is not just advisory. It is a shipping engine. These are the kinds of products, platforms, and experiments that turn strategy into something users can touch.

EventHub

Live app

A city-first discovery layer for startup and tech communities, designed to make local events easier to search, filter, and revisit.

Community discovery Live on Vercel

StockPulse

Shipped

Real-time stock sentiment and analysis workflow blending GPT, social feeds, market signals, and a productized frontend experience.

Signal intelligence AI analysis

Remote Startup Jobs

Live concept

Job aggregation for remote startup roles with reliability-minded feed handling and straightforward search intent.

Jobs aggregation Always-on feeds
§ 04 Trajectory

Startup urgency. Enterprise range.

Lotus X is grounded in experience across Fortune 500 commerce, consulting, digital media, startup operations, and zero-to-one product delivery.

2023 — Now
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Lotus X Group

Founder & CEO · Venture studio

Building AI products, Web3 infrastructure concepts, SaaS experiments, and advisory engagements from idea through deployment.

  • Shipped products across fintech, events, jobs, signal intelligence, dashboards, and venture storytelling.
  • Led PRDs, UI direction, AI feature strategy, investor materials, and go-to-market planning under one operating model.
  • Built Lotus X into a platform for fast experiments, automation-first workflows, and execution-heavy consulting.
Apr 2024 — Oct 2025
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Walmart E-commerce

Senior Product & Strategy Manager

Owned omni-channel initiatives across returns, offers, receipts, marketplace experiences, analytics systems, and ML-oriented product planning.

  • Worked across POS redesign, digital receipts, coupons, returns, partner offers, and cross-platform user journeys.
  • Supported launch work tied to marketplace and partner offer programs including Expedia, Spotify, Apple, and Parkland.
  • Partnered with data science and engineering on ML requirements, reporting systems, and decision-driving dashboards.
2022 — 2024
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Baliston

Sr Product & Project Manager, E-commerce

Led ecommerce and growth work for a smart-footwear startup across redesign, subscription thinking, reporting automation, and recommendation logic.

  • Spearheaded Shopify redesign and sharper conversion flows for a stronger digital storefront experience.
  • Supported subscription and growth initiatives tied to measurable sales improvement.
  • Applied AI-driven thinking to process automation, reporting, search logic, and recommendation systems.
2022
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Stratuscent

Special Projects Manager / Chief of Staff

Worked directly with leadership on strategic planning, OKRs, GTM direction, experimentation, and new-vertical business development.

  • Helped define strategic vision and operating cadence around an AI sensor product environment.
  • Supported GTM improvements, commercial planning, and faster experimentation cycles.
  • Built momentum across B2B and B2C pipeline creation for multiple new verticals.
2021 — 2022
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Google (YouTube)

Product & Brand Partnerships

Worked across YouTube Premium and YouTube Music growth planning, campaigns, and partner-facing programs across APAC.

  • Supported Premium expansion planning and market-facing strategy for regional growth.
  • Helped build artist campaign plans for YouTube Music with stronger engagement and CTR outcomes.
  • Managed partner operations across healthcare, ecommerce, and payments categories.
2019 — 2020
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Boston Consulting Group

Management Consultant · Business Transformation & Strategy

Worked on business transformation, platform growth, digital strategy, and operating-model thinking across large-scale client programs.

  • Contributed to ed-tech product and GTM planning aimed at large-scale upskilling outcomes.
  • Analyzed government ecommerce platform opportunities and growth levers.
  • Supported cost-reduction and strategic theme development for enterprise clients.
2018 — 2019
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NDTV Digital

Manager · Strategic Alliances & Digital Transformation

Focused on digital partnerships, subscriptions, monetization strategy, and multi-vertical planning across a major media platform.

  • Managed strategic alliances with partners including Google and Taboola.
  • Worked on app subscription and ad revenue growth models.
  • Led planning across multiple web and social verticals.
2017 — 2018
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Walmart — Store No. 8

Business / Product Analyst · Innovation Lab

Worked on voice commerce, innovation-lab style product analysis, and AI/ML-adjacent customer experience initiatives.

  • Supported the Google-Walmart voice AI partnership and related launch work.
  • Worked with cross-functional teams on voice-data modeling and UX improvements.
  • Contributed to online grocery experience design and transaction flow improvement.
2012 — 2014
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KPMG Advisory

Analyst I & II · Business Transformation & ERP Consulting

Early-career transformation and ERP consulting experience focused on operating efficiency, proposals, and enterprise delivery.

  • Worked on Oracle E-Business Suite transformation and business process redesign.
  • Supported ERP implementation and workflow improvements for large teams and operations.
  • Assisted with proposal creation for large consulting projects and cross-functional delivery support.
§ 05 Why clients call

Founder energy with executive structure.

The edge is not just ideas. It is the combination of strategic clarity, technical product instincts, and willingness to ship instead of circling the problem.

A

From deck to deployment

Useful when a team needs both the story for stakeholders and the working product direction behind it.

B

AI without the fluff

Best for turning AI from vague ambition into workflows, features, interfaces, and measurable operational wins.

C

Founder-speed decisions

Useful when the cost of waiting is high and the team needs momentum with enough rigor to scale.

Every problem is treated like a product to ship.

That mindset is what connects venture design, product leadership, and live execution across the Lotus X portfolio.

— Ankit Operating principle · 2023
§ 06 Consulting engagement

BlockXNet — an AI-native Layer 1 story.

Positioned here intentionally as a consulting partnership rather than a Lotus X owned product.

Product consultant for an AI-native Layer 1 story

Supported BlockXNet as a product consultant across product strategy, market positioning, fundraising materials, and investor outreach. The work focused on translating a complex blockchain and infrastructure narrative into something clearer, sharper, and venture-ready.

Product consulting VC deck strategy Investor outreach
Mainnet narrative support
300+ investor contacts built
Fundraising positioning
§ 07 Get in touch

Open to consulting, ventures, and senior product conversations.

Paid advisory, operator roles, venture partnerships, or product buildouts. If the opportunity needs speed and product judgment, it is a fit worth discussing.