Investor profile
Anand Iyer
Operator-led, Venture capital & Investor at Virtuals Protocol, Venture Partner at Lightspeed
Anand Iyer works as a Venture Partner at Lightspeed. The firm's known portfolio counts 11 companies.
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Affiliated funds' portfolios
Investor at Virtuals Protocol, whose known portfolio counts 5 companies
- Flying Tulip
- Questflow
- FrodoBots Lab
- Giggles
- PrismaX
Venture Partner at Lightspeed, whose known portfolio counts 11 companies
- Notch
- Coral
- Granola
- Sycamore
- Reliable Robotics
- Nas.com
- Ineffable Intelligence
- ScaleOps
- Modus
- Shapes Inc
- Lightspeed Commerce
Investor Profile
Anand Iyer is listed against sectors AI, Commerce, Consumer and FinTech, and focus areas AI Agents, AI Applications, AI Infrastructure and Agentic Commerce in the database.
Stage-wise, the deals at Lightspeed cluster around Growth, Pre-Seed and Seed rounds.
What the affiliated firm has backed is the closest available signal on whether Anand Iyer is worth approaching.
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Partner
San Francisco, United States
Justin Overdorff
Partner
New York City, United States
Ron Cao
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Singapore
Ilse Calderon
Scout
San Francisco, United States
Semil Shah
Venture Partner
Mill Valley, United States
Ravi Mhatre
Founder
San Francisco, United States
Bernard Leong
Advisor, AI Council
Singapore
Arif Janmohamed
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Paul Murphy
Partner
London, United Kingdom
James Alcorn
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Nakul Mandan
Venture Partner
San Francisco, United States
Clara Boh
Advisor
Singapore
Prakash Somosundram
Strategic Advisor
Singapore
David Gussarsky
Partner
Israel
Guru Chahal
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Barry Eggers
Founding Partner
Menlo Park, United States
Peter Nieh
Co-Founder & Partner of Lightspeed
San Francisco, United States
Frequently asked questions
Who is Anand Iyer?
Anand Iyer is an operator-led investor and venture capital investor based in San Francisco, California, United States, listed as Venture Partner at Lightspeed. The known portfolio of that firm counts 11 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Anand Iyer personally.
What does Anand Iyer invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Commerce, Consumer and FinTech; listed focus areas include AI Agents, AI Applications, AI Infrastructure and Agentic Commerce. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Anand Iyer invest at?
Lightspeed appears in Growth, Pre-Seed and Seed rounds across its known deals, and Anand Iyer is listed there as Venture Partner. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Anand Iyer listed at?
Anand Iyer is listed as Venture Partner at Lightspeed. 67 other people in the database share a firm with Anand Iyer.
How do I contact Anand Iyer?
An email address, a phone number and a LinkedIn page are on file for Anand Iyer. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account.
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