Investing Profile

Anand Iyer

CEO

Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Anand Iyer's investing connections

34 Investors

Connected to Satya Patel (Homebrew), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), and 31 other investors on Signal.

Networks Anand is a member of

Top-Patents Network

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Top-Patents Network

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BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P. Network

409 CONNECTIONS

BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P. Network

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Microsoft Network

392 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Lightspeed Venture Partners Venture Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

Anand Iyer is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Web3/Blockchain (Seed)Web3/Crypto (Seed)Consumer Internet (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Web3/Crypto (Pre-seed)Web3/Blockchain (Pre-seed)Marketplaces (Pre-seed)Consumer Internet (Pre-seed)Marketplaces (Seed)

Anand Iyer's Investments On Record (9)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Mesta	SeedSep 2025$6M Pre SeedJan 2025$2M	$8M
Co-investors: Jacob Mullins (Shasta Ventures), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Anna Barber (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund))
Phantom	Series CJan 2025$150M	$290M
Co-investors: Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), John Thompson (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arjun Balaji (Paradigm), Andrew Reed (Sequoia Capital), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), James Flynn (Deerfield Management), Jason Haider, Alex Adelman
Chaos Labs	Series AAug 2024$55M SeedFeb 2023$20M	$95M
Co-investors: Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Michael Shaulov (Cyberstarts VC), Kevin Weil (OpenAI), Simon Chan (FirsthandVC), Alex Marinier (New Form Capital), Tze Donn Ng (Tioga Capital Partners), Mike Giampapa, Balaji Srinivasan, Amman Bhasin
Blackwing	SeedMar 2024$5M	$5M
Co-investors: Miko Matsumura (Gumi Cryptos Capital), Julian Koh
Jia	SeedApr 2023$4M	$7M
Co-investors: Jared Hecht (Union Square Ventures), Kinjal Shah (Blockchain Capital), Nisa Amoils (Grasshopper Capital), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital)
Sentio	SeedFeb 2023$6M	$6.1M
Co-investors: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sundeep Ahuja (Climate Capital), Carmen Palafox (MiLA Capital (Make in LA))
Meso	SeedMay 2022	$10M
Co-investors: Justin Saslaw (Ribbit Capital)
Alchemy	Series CFeb 2022$200M	$580M
Co-investors: Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Joey Krug (Founders Fund), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Amy Wu (Menlo Ventures), Randy Glein (DFJ), Emilie Choi (Coinbase Ventures), Ben Orthlieb (Linkedin), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), John Hennessy (Stanford University), Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter (Marcy Venture Partners), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Thomas Glocer (Angelic Ventures), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Jay Brown (Marcy Venture Partners), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield Fund), James Hong (NewCo), Shervin Pishevar (Craft Ventures), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital), Najam Kidwai (Frontier Ventures), Jeff Seibert, Jay Z, Jared Leto, Balaji Srinivasan, Chris Kelly

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Anand Iyer's Experience

CTO & Co-Founder BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Managing General Partner BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Dad + IT Technician + Tech Customer Support Hitpost, Inc. (acquired by Yahoo!)Present

Managing General Partner Hitpost, Inc. (acquired by Yahoo!)Present

Co-Founder Stealth Company (Anand Iyer)Present

Investor RAINPresent

Investor Sentient LabsPresent

Investor EXO LabsPresent

Software Development Engineer CiscoPresent

Senior Developer Evangelist MicrosoftPresent

Senior Product Manager MicrosoftPresent

CTO & Co-Founder Top-PatentsPresent

Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder trstdlyPresent

CEO & Founder Trusted Child CarePresent

Dad + IT Technician + Tech Customer Support Top-PatentsPresent

Investor Virtuals ProtocolPresent

Managing General Partner CanonicalPresent

Senior Developer Evangelist Microsoft CorporationPresent

Senior Product Manager Microsoft CorporationPresent

CTO & Co-Founder Hitpost, Inc. (acquired by Yahoo!)Present

Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder ThreadflipPresent

CEO & Founder Trusted Child Care (acq by Care.com)Present

Visiting Partner Pear VCPresent

Venture Partner Lightspeed Venture PartnersPresent

Investor EXO Labs (We're hiring)Present

Dad + IT Technician + Tech Customer Support The Iyer FamPresent

Investor StacksPresent

Investor TRM LabsPresent

Investor thirdwebPresent

Investor FarcasterPresent

Investor GensynPresent

Investor Thala LabsPresent

Investor RitualPresent

Board Member FarawayPresent

Investor Sahara AIPresent

Investor Tensorplex LabsPresent

Investor SentientPresent

Anand Iyer's Education

Purdue University BSc Computer Engineering