Sumit Jain

Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, He started online real-estate portal commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for Commonfloor.com as well as delivering on company goals

Born and brought up in Khatauli, a small town in Uttar Pradesh, 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.

Sumit graduated as a computer engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2006. After a short spell with Oracle Server Technologies, he decided to start his own business and in 2007 he started Commonfloor.com with Lalit Mangal and Vikas Malpani.

• 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