Hi, I am Anand Iyer. Pronounced “aah-nun iye-er”.
I am the Managing Partner of an early stage AI x Blockchain infrastructure fund, Canonical and Venture Partner at Lightspeed. I mostly focus on “picks and shovels” of crypto infrastructure, and I have a special affinity for developer tools. Previously I was a Visiting Partner at Pear Ventures, an early stage pre-seed and seed firm where I focused on blockchain investments.
Before I was fully red-pilled, I was the CEO & Co-founder of Trusted. Trusted was founded in 2014 and acquired by a public company, Care.com, in 2018. Care.com was taken back private in 2020 by IAC.
I started my career building product and evangelizing Developer Platforms at Microsoft, including Azure and Windows. I have a degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University. I occasionally write on Medium, Twitter, and Farcaster.
My wife, Shreya, and I are angel investors – we tend to be stage and sector agnostic. You can read our investment decision framework here. We are also Limited Partners in several early stage venture capital funds.
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.
My wife, daughter and I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.