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Anand Rajaraman

Founding Partner at rocketship.vc

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Anand Rajaraman is a Founding Partner at rocketship.vc and co-owner of SF Unicorns, with a strong background in e-commerce, start-ups, and strategic partnerships. His career highlights include serving as SVP of Global eCommerce at Walmart and founding companies like Kosmix and Junglee, while also investing in notable startups like Trifacta and DocsApp.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2015 - Current

    Pioneering a new approach to Venture Capital using Big Data and algorithms.

Rocketship.vc is an early-stage venture fund investing in companies through data science.

  • Founding Partner

    2013

    Investing in companies applying deep technology to solve important problems.

  • Founding partner

    2000 - 2015

    Portfolio includes: Aster Data Systems (acquired by Teradata); Kosmix (acquired by Walmart); Neoteris (acquired by JNPR); Kaltix (acquired by GOOG); Transformic (acquired by GOOG); Webaroo (now SMS GupShup); Efficient Frontier; TheFind

  • SVP, Global eCommerce

    2011 - 2012

    Head up @WalmartLabs, focusing on the intersection of social, mobile, and retail.

Walmart is a retail corporation that operates several chains of supermarkets, discount stores, and e-commerce platforms.

Raised $5,000,000,000.00.

  • Founder & Chairman

    2005 - 2011

  • Board of Directors

    2005 - 2011

Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.

  • Founding Investor, Board of Directors

    2008 - 2011

  • Director of Technology

    1998 - 2000

Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.

  • Founder

    1996 - 1998

    Acquired by Amazon.com in 1998.

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