Anand Iyer

Anand Iyer is a venture partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He founded Canonical and previously founded Trusted,, and worked at Microsoft Azure and Cisco.

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Based in: San Francisco
Elsewhere

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Until Present

Venture Partner

Canonical

Until Present

Founder and Managing Partner

ChipSage Labs

Apr 2026 — Present

Investor

EXO Labs

Apr 2024 — Present

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Virtuals Protocol

Dec 2023 — Present

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Sahara AI

Aug 2023 — Present

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Synthefy

Jul 2023 — Present

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Pear VC

Jan 2021 — Jan 2022

Visiting Partner

Trusted Child Care (acq by Care.com)

Jan 2014 — Jan 2020

CEO & Founder

Microsoft

Senior Product Manager
Jan 2008 — Jan 2010
San Francisco, California, United States
Senior Developer Evangelist
Jan 2005 — Jan 2008

Cisco

Jan 2001 — Jan 2005

Software Development Engineer

Purdue University

BS Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Anand Iyer

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Canonical

ChipSage Labs

EXO Labs

Virtuals Protocol

Sahara AI

Synthefy

Pear VC

Trusted Child Care (acq by Care.com)

Microsoft

Senior Product Manager

Senior Developer Evangelist

Cisco

Purdue University

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