Ankur Warikoo is an Indian entrepreneur, angel investor, public speaker, and mentor. He is the founder of the e-commerce platform nearbuy.com. Ankur Warikoo was born on Monday, 25 August 1980 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. His zodiac sign is Virgo. 

In 2004, he started working as a consultant at a corporate training consultancy NIS Sparta, New Delhi and worked there for one year. In May 2006, he joined a management consulting firm Kearney in Chicago. After working there for more than three years, he joined an internet firm Accentium Web, Gurgaon as one of the co-founders. In December 2010, he started working as a venture partner at Rocket Internet headquartered in Berlin. He worked there for more than a year, and in March 2011, he started the real-time e-commerce platform Groupon where he worked as a Head, Groupon APAC Emerging Markets (India, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines).

In July 2014, he was appointed as one of the board members at the Indian School of Business, New Delhi, from 2014 to 2017. During his tenure, he was part of the ISB’s Next Generation Leaders Board (NGLB). In July 2014, he started working as an individual angel investor at various internet and technology companies. He started an e-commerce platform company nearbuy.com in Gurgaon, Haryana in August 2015. He worked as the CEO there, from 2015 to 2019. As of January 2022, he is one of the board members of the company. He is also a digital educator and has been working as an educator and content creator since 2019. He has conducted various courses on entrepreneurship, career management, and personal growth. Ankur is an author too, and in 2021, he published his first book “Do Epic Shit” which is considered one of the top-selling books in India in 2021.

He is also a public speaker and social media influencer. He has around 1.28 million subscribers on his self-titled YouTube channel on which he uploads videos related to tips and tricks related to finance