In 2004, Ankur had been working as a top management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group since 1998. He was very successful, but was wondering "Is this it? Will I retire in this job?" So, he decided to approach a team of smart students in his old university, NTU in Singapore. He asked them, "Should I quit my job? You have 2 weeks and give your final answer as a number from 0% to 100%!" Ankur's close friend Miriam, who had a career with a top management consulting firm, also flew down from Europe to Singapore to help Ankur and the team.

At the end of 2 weeks, the students had the found the answer, it was Infinity! They proposed that Ankur set-up a entrepreneurial start-up - Global Realizer Group (GRG) and even helped to get the company started. In a few week, Ankur quit his life long job at BCG and commenced his new life as an entrepreneur setting up GRG's first venture: Nineo. However, one student, Yu Ping said, "Ankur, you should also continue to do this!" This - what is 'this'… and 'RealAcad' was born…the rest as they say is history.

Since then, with the inspiring leadership of Miriam and Yu Ping, the 2-week camp concept was developed into a Venture Management Program that would involve 10 smart students worldwide and distinct program advisors and leaders from the top global companies. Together they would set-up a new venture from scratch! A name Realize Academy was chosen and a website www.RealAcad.org was developed. Since then, RealAcad has had camps around the globle in Singapore, Shanghai, Stanford, Sydney and Europe. Each camp created a new venture and RealAcad was very fortunate to get support from outstanding pioneer program advisors and leaders like Tsafi, Paul and Tom.