Hi, I am Anand Iyer. Pronounced “aah-nun iye-er”.
I am the Managing Partner of an early stage VC fund, Canonical and Venture Partner at Lightspeed. I mostly focus on “picks and shovels” of infrastructure such as developer tools, platforms, foundational layers .
Before venture, I was the CEO & Co-founder of Trusted, a company I’d cofounded in 2014. Trusted was acquired by a public company ($CRCM) in 2018. IAC subsequently acquired $CRCM in 2020.
Before that, I spent years at Microsoft building product and evangelizing developer platforms including Azure and Windows. I studied Computer Engineering at Purdue. I’ve also been a Visiting Partner at Pear Ventures, an early-stage pre-seed and seed firm.
My wife Shreya and I are angel investors — stage and sector agnostic — and LPs in several early-stage venture funds. We’re especially drawn to AI, robotics, climate, and longevity. These are the problems we think about at the dinner table.
My expertise is in early stage company building. Shreya is an attorney turned talent acquisition specialist and has helped scale Splunk from a couple of hundred to over 6000 employees. We are constantly learning and as we think about our future, our interest has been piquing in AI, Robotics, climate change and longevity related businesses.
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