Anand Iyer

Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

San Francisco, California

Overview

Anand Iyer is a Managing Partner at Canonical and a Venture Partner at Lightspeed, with a focus on investing in early-stage companies in sectors like Web3/Crypto and Marketplaces. He has successfully invested in companies like Blackwing, Jia, Meso, and Metafy, showcasing a strong track record in identifying and supporting promising startups. Anand's career highlights include his role as Managing General Partner at Canonical Crypto and his position as a Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he has demonstrated expertise in product management, technology evangelism, and strategic partnerships within the tech industry.

Work Experience

Canonical Crypto

Managing General Partner
2021 - Current
Early stage venture fund focused on investments in blockchain and crypto infrastructure

Canonical Crypto is a capital fund invests technology company.

Raised $20,000,000.00 from Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen and Mar Hershenson.

canonical.cc

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Venture Partner
2022

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

lsvp.com

The Iyer Fam

Dad + IT Technician + Tech Customer Support
2013

Sentient

Investor
2024

Sentient is an AI research organization enabling open AGI collaboration and monetization.

Raised $85,000,000.00 from dao5, Folius Ventures, Republic capital, Founders Fund, Foresight Ventures, Arrington Capital, Canonical Crypto, Framework Ventures, Pantera Capital and Sky9 Capital.

sentient.foundation

Tensorplex Labs

Investor
2024

Sahara AI

Investor
2023

Sahara AI is a decentralized AI network that enables freely and securely deploy autonomous AI with high-performance, privacy-first network.

Raised $43,000,000.00 from Laksh Vaaman Sehgal, Elvis Zhang, Foresight Ventures, Binance Labs, Sequoia Capital, Tangent, Polychain, Rohan Taori, dao5 and Vipul Ved Prakash.

saharalabs.ai