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$1000 sneakers and the growth of resale marketplaces
Talks about Startup, Technology and Marketplaces
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Nandu Anilal
Vice President at Canaan
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Nandu Anilal is a Vice President at Canaan Partners, specializing in AI and infrastructure investments in sectors such as fashion, robotics, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in product strategy and operations at Thumbtack and consulting experience at ZS, Nandu brings expertise in leadership, teamwork, and public speaking to his role, leveraging these skills to make successful Series A and seed investments in innovative companies.
Work Experience
Agent Product Manager
2025 - Current
Decagon is a software development company that develops customer support software enabling businesses to improve their customer services.
Raised $100,000,000.00 from A* Capital, Bond, Bain Capital Ventures, ACME Capital, Accel and Elad Gil.
Vice President
2019 - 2025
early-stage VC firm investing out of $650m fund investments across enterprise and deeptech: Enterpret, HeyMilo, SID AI, Cynomi, Field AI, Reibus, Hermeus, BoostUp, Edge Impulse (acq'd by Qualcomm), Axis Security (acq'd by HPE), and a few not yet announced
Canaan is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionaries with transformative ideas.
Product Strategy & Operations
2018 - 2019
worked on projects to inform product roadmap and our multi-vertical strategy, our team reported into Product leadership
Thumbtack is a home services website connecting users with local service providers.
Raised $773,200,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank and Hercules Capital.
Associate
2016 - 2018
management consulting for GTM teams + PE clients