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Rajan Anandan

Managing Director at Peak XV Partners

Delhi

Overview 

Rajan Anandan is the Managing Director at PeakXV Partners and Surge, with a notable career spanning leadership roles at Google, Microsoft, Dell, and McKinsey & Company. He has made impactful investments in a variety of sectors like Social Commerce, AI, Health Services, and FinTech, supporting companies such as Vaaree, PingSafe, and Requestly. Anandan's career highlights include serving as Vice President at Google for India and SEA, Managing Director at Microsoft India, and Partner at McKinsey & Company, showcasing a diverse and successful track record in the tech and investment sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director

    2023 - Current

    PeakXV Partners is the leading venture capital firm in India and SEA. Formerly known as Sequoia Capital India and SEA was rebranded to PeakXV Partners in June, 2023. PeakXV Partners has over $9Billion AUM, over 400 portfolio companies including over 50 Unicorns and has IPOed 19 companies over the past 5 years. Surge is the seed stage rapid scale up program of PeakXV Partners and was launched in 2019

  • Managing Director

    2019

  • Managing Director

    2019 - 2023

    Surge is Sequoia Capital India's rapid scale up program focused on early stage startups in India and SEA

Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.

  • Vice President India and SEA

    2011 - 2019

    Lead Google's business teams in India and SouthEast Asia a region with 850million internet users and several billion dollars in revenue

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Managing Director, Microsoft India

    2008 - 2010

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • Vice President and Country General Manager

    2006 - 2008

  • Vice President, Global Outsourcing

    2004 - 2006

Dell transforms computing and provides high-quality solutions for people and businesses to be ready to move forward.

  • Vice President and EA to Chairman

    2003 - 2004

Dell transforms computing and provides high-quality solutions for people and businesses to be ready to move forward.

  • Partner

    1992 - 2003

McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity

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