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Mixpanel vs Amplitude
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Anish Acharya
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
San Francisco, California
Overview
Anish Acharya, currently serving as a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, is a seasoned professional with a strong background in product management, entrepreneurship, and business development. With a successful track record that includes founding Snowball (acquired by Credit Karma) and leading various product management roles at Credit Karma, Anish has demonstrated expertise in scaling startups and driving strategic partnerships.
Anish's career highlights include founding and successfully exiting Snowball, as well as leading product management teams at Credit Karma, showcasing his ability to drive successful product strategies and business growth in the consumer internet and FinTech sectors.
Work Experience
General Partner
2019 - Current
Announced investments: Series B investments: Titan: https://a16z.com/2021/07/20/investing-in-titan/ Series A investments: Silo: https://a16z.com/2020/09/24/investing-in-silo/ Mosaic: https://a16z.com/2020/09/02/investing-in-mosaic/ Deel: https://a16z.com/2020/05/21/investing-in-deel/ Seed investments: Carbonated: https://www.carbonated.com/ Runway: https://a16z.com/2020/06/25/investing-in-runway/ Arc Boats: https://twitter.com/illscience/status/1420891974081544192 Partyround: https://twitter.com/illscience/status/1461390728580382724?s=21
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
GM, Core Product
2017 - 2019
VP, Product Management
2017 - 2019
GM, U.S. Card
2016 - 2017
Senior Director, Product Management
2015 - 2017
Credit Karma is the largest consumer internet company focused on helping users with their finances, with over 75MM users and over $500MM in 2016 revenue. Owner of all consumer facing experiences, including the website & apps.
Credit Karma offers a range of tools and personalized recommendations designed to help customers make the most of their money.
Raised $868,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund and Silver Lake.
Founder & CEO
2014 - 2015
Founder and CEO; led all aspects of the product and business from inception to acquisition by Credit Karma. Founded Snowball as an effort to reimagine the mobile operating system by re-defining the core system experiences, beginning with messaging and notifications. The first product was a unified messaging app and our second product was a smart inbox for notifications, both launched to industry acclaim. Snowball also broke new technical ground by pioneering the ability to extend the Android OS from an app in the Play Store. Snowball raised $2.3MM from Google Ventures, First Round, Felicis etc.
Entrepreneur in Residence
2014 - 2014
Moved into Entrepreneur In Residence role in support of building a new company (Snowball). Raised $2.3MM in a round led by First Round & Google Ventures to spin Snowball out of GV.
Partner
2012 - 2014
Joined Google Ventures as an investing partner with an external focus on gaming + consumer internet. Led and supported deals across marketplaces, messaging, mid-core gaming, and ad-tech. Restructured organization to streamline all aspects of operations.
Lead Product Manager, Social
2010 - 2012
Built & led early mobile teams for Google+ including iOS, Android, platform and more. Promoted multiple times to eventually run all mobile efforts for Google Social.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Founder & CEO
2008 - 2010
Founder and CEO; led all aspects of the product and business from inception to acquisition by Google. Grew network to over 2MM players and 10 games on a single institutional round, 5X exit for investors. Founded SocialDeck as a social platform and publisher for mobile games, connecting a network of players across devices and platforms. SocialDeck pioneered many of the now-standard industry concepts, such as use of address book for virality / graph, cross-device gameplay, and discovery outside of the AppStore.
Software Development Engineer
2004 - 2008
Developer on the Distributed System Engineering and Checkout By Amazon teams. Promoted to SDE-II after successful work in the effort to migrate Amazon to a service oriented architecture.
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Software Development Intern
2000 - 2000
Education
BASC
1998 - 2004