Investing Profile

Anand Iyer

CEO

Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Anand Iyer's investing connections

34 Investors

Connected to Satya Patel (Homebrew), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), and 31 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Investment Range

$100K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

Anand Iyer is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Anand Iyer's Investments On Record (9)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Mesta	SeedSep 2025$6M Pre SeedJan 2025$2M	$8M
Co-investors: Jacob Mullins (Shasta Ventures), Anna Barber (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund))
Phantom	Series CJan 2025$150M	$290M
Co-investors: Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), John Thompson (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arjun Balaji (Paradigm), Andrew Reed (Sequoia Capital), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), James Flynn (Deerfield Management), Alex Adelman
Chaos Labs	Series AAug 2024$55M SeedFeb 2023$20M	$95M
Co-investors: Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Kevin Weil (OpenAI), Simon Chan (FirstHand Alliance), Alex Marinier (New Form Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Tze Donn Ng (Tioga Capital Partners), Balaji Srinivasan, Amman Bhasin, Mike Giampapa
Blackwing	SeedMar 2024$5M	$5M
Co-investors: Miko Matsumura (Gumi Cryptos Capital)
Jia	SeedApr 2023$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Jared Hecht (Union Square Ventures), Kinjal Shah (Blockchain Capital), Packy McCormick (Breather)
Sentio	SeedFeb 2023$6M	$6.1M
Co-investors: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sundeep Ahuja (Climate Capital), Carmen Palafox (MiLA Capital (Make in LA))
Meso	SeedMay 2022
Alchemy	Series CFeb 2022$200M	$580M
Co-investors: Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Joey Krug (Founders Fund), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Amy Wu (Menlo Ventures), Emilie Choi (Coinbase Ventures), Randy Glein (DFJ), Ben Orthlieb (Linkedin), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter (Marcy Venture Partners), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Jay Brown (Marcy Venture Partners), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Navin Chaddha (The Alchemy Fund), James Hong (Center for Rural Health Leadership), Shervin Pishevar (ACME Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital), Najam Kidwai (Frontier Ventures), Balaji Srinivasan, Jay Z, Jared Leto, John Hennessy, Chris Kelly, Jeff Seibert

Anand Iyer's Media (1)

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Anand Iyer's Experience

Investor SentientPresent

Investor Tensorplex LabsPresent

Investor Sahara AIPresent

Board Member FarawayPresent

Investor RitualPresent

Investor Thala LabsPresent

Investor GensynPresent

Investor FarcasterPresent

Investor thirdwebPresent

Investor TRM LabsPresent

Investor StacksPresent

Dad + IT Technician + Tech Customer Support The Iyer FamPresent

Investor EXO Labs (We're hiring)Present

Venture Partner Lightspeed Venture PartnersPresent

Visiting Partner Pear VCPresent

CEO & Founder Trusted Child Care (acq by Care.com)Present

Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder ThreadflipPresent

CTO & Co-Founder Hitpost, Inc. (acquired by Yahoo!)Present

Senior Product Manager Microsoft CorporationPresent

Senior Developer Evangelist Microsoft CorporationPresent

Managing General Partner CanonicalPresent

Investor Virtuals ProtocolPresent

Dad + IT Technician + Tech Customer Support Top-PatentsPresent

CEO & Founder Trusted Child CarePresent

Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder trstdlyPresent

CTO & Co-Founder Top-PatentsPresent

Senior Product Manager MicrosoftPresent

Senior Developer Evangelist MicrosoftPresent

Software Development Engineer CiscoPresent

Investor EXO LabsPresent

Investor Sentient LabsPresent

Investor RAINPresent

Co-Founder Stealth Company (Anand Iyer)Present

Managing General Partner Hitpost, Inc. (acquired by Yahoo!)Present

Dad + IT Technician + Tech Customer Support Hitpost, Inc. (acquired by Yahoo!)Present

Anand Iyer's Education

Purdue University BSc Computer Engineering