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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 

  • Vice President

    2019 - Current

    VC firm investing out of $650m early-stage fund investments include: * Enterpret (A) * HeyMilo (Seed) * SID AI (Seed) * Cynomi (A) * Diligent Robotics (B) * Reibus (A) * Edge Impulse acq by Qualcomm (A) * Appsmith (A) * Axis Security acq by HPE (B) * BoostUp (Seed) * Instrumental (B) * Unannounced AI for dental offices (Preseed) * Unannounced AI for physical world (A) * Unannounced AI for data stack (Seed) * Unnannounced next-gen labor network (Seed)

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

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