Anand Iyer

Anand Iyer is the Managing Partner of Canonical, an early stage fund based in San Francsico focused on investing in frontier technologies such as AI, robotics and crypto. Iyer is a Silicon Valley veteran. He started his career working at Microsoft as a Product Manager in 2005. He then founded Trusted which was subsequently acquired by a public company Care, in 2018. Anand then joined Lightspeed where he was a Venture Partner and was involved in their blockchain companies such as Phantom, Alchemy, Arbitrum, Mysten among others. Anand has a degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University.