White Plains, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/11/2018 -- LedgerFund Managing Partners Nikunj Jain and Ayush Varshney have been featured in Forbes magazine's annual 30 under 30 Asia list for 2018 in the category of Finance & Venture Capital.

The list recognizes prominent industry figures that are reshaping their sectors with progressive and sustainable innovations.

Both Nikunj and Ayush made it to the list as Co-Founders of Nash Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in startups in emerging technologies like Blockchain, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence.

29-year-old Nikunj Jain started his career as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a Big Four audit firm and the world's second-largest professional services company.

From there, he moved on to co-founding two successful companies including Android gaming and application company inoXapps and social video microblogging platform Frankly.me.

Nikunj co-founded Nash Ventures with Ayush in 2017, which quickly grew into a multi-million dollar business.

Today, Nash Ventures helps entrepreneurs in innovative technologies run and scale ventures into profitable enterprises.

25-year-old Ayush Varshney co-founded his first company, Bluegape, while still in college.

The startup went on to become the most popular blogging platform in India with over a 100 million unique monthly visitors.

Ayush's second venture, Murmur, was funded by Google and was part of the first batch of Google's Launchpad Accelerator.

He has been developing blockchain projects and trading cryptocurrencies for the last 20 months.

As partners at Nash Ventures, Ayush and Nikunj have set up multiple ventures including a cryptocurrency exchange, LedgerEX and a crypto asset-based hedge fund called LedgerFund.

LedgerFund is an actively managed, data-driven crypto-fund set up by Nikunj and Ayush. It is designed to let institutional investors maximize returns on investments in crypto assets.

The fund currently has more than 20 million USD worth of assets under management, and has been giving consistent returns in bitcoin to its investors.

To learn more about LedgerFund, visit ledgerfund.io.

Each year, Forbes' 30 under 30 set of lists distinguish up-and-coming leaders in categories such as Healthcare & Science, Entertainment & Sports, Finance & Venture Capital and Enterprise Technology.

Both visionaries — Nikunj and Ayush — pride themselves on being disruptive in their sector and ambitious enough to drive real change.

Other known figures mentioned in the list include Indian actress Anushka Sharma, Olympic silver-medalist PV Sindhu and Pakistani singer Momina Mustehsan.