# Anand Iyer

> Investor and founder in San Francisco. Managing Partner of Canonical, an
> early-stage venture firm. Venture Partner at Lightspeed. Previously CEO and
> co-founder of Trusted (acquired by Care.com in 2018) and spent years at
> Microsoft on Azure and Windows.

## Identity

- **Full name:** Anand Iyer
- **Role:** Managing Partner, [Canonical](https://canonical.cc) · Venture Partner, [Lightspeed](https://lsvp.com)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Contact:** hello@canonical.cc
- **Profiles:** [X / @ai](https://x.com/ai) · [Substack](https://anandiyer.substack.com) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandiyer/) · [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/anand-iyer)

## Background

Anand co-founded Trusted, a marketplace for childcare, in 2014. Trusted was
acquired by Care.com (CRCM) in 2018; IAC subsequently acquired Care.com in
2020. Before Trusted, Anand spent years at Microsoft building developer
platforms across Azure and Windows. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering
from Purdue University and has been a Visiting Partner at Pear VC.

## Canonical (current)

Canonical is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm Anand founded in
2022. It invests in university spin-outs and deep-technical teams building
infrastructure for a post-AGI world. Check sizes typically run $500K–$1.5M.

Focus areas: physical AI, AI infrastructure (esp. AI-for-EDA), applied AI,
agentic finance and commerce, on-chain coordination, deeptech.

## Canonical resources

- [Canonical homepage](https://canonical.cc)
- [Portfolio](https://canonical.cc/portfolio)
- [Thesis](https://canonical.cc/#thesis)
- [Labs (open tools for founders/GPs/LPs)](https://canonical.cc/labs/)
- [FAQs](https://canonical.cc/faqs)

## Writing

- [Substack — anandiyer.substack.com](https://anandiyer.substack.com)
- [RSS feed](https://anandiyer.substack.com/feed)

## Optional

- [Recent tweets](https://x.com/ai)