Anand Iyer

Managing Partner Canonical | Venture Partner Lightspeed

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
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Apr 2026
ChipSage Labs is developing advanced AI systems for semiconductor design
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2026
An all-in-one fully integrated software platform and physical execution layer delivering cradle-to-grave AI Factory deployment and operations — an automated, proactive EYE ON the AI Factory to maximize goodput.
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Apr 2024
EXO powers AI you control—secure, scalable, local.
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Dec 2023
Co-owned, composable, plug-and-play AI Agents library for Entertainment and Gaming; onchain @base. Read our whitepaper: https://whitepaper.virtuals.io
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Aug 2023
Build, Contribute to, and Monetize AI. Our official site is now SaharaAI.com | Sahara AI is the first full-stack, AI-native blockchain platform where anyone on any chain can create, contribute to and monetize AI. Our infrastructure is designed to accelerate an AI-driven future that is open, equitable, and accessible to all.
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Jul 2023
Synthefy is building multi-modal generative AI models for time series data. We enable you to search, forecast, and synthesize privacy-preserving time series data – all from a simple text prompt!
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Jul 2023
We make games with player-driven economies.
early stageComputer Games
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May 2023
Ritual is an open, sovereign execution layer for AI. Seamlessly integrate AI into your app or protocol on any chain, enabling you to fine-tune, monetize, and perform inference on models with cryptographic schemes.
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Sep 2022
thala.fi
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Jul 2022
Farcaster is a sufficiently decentralized social network. It is an open protocol that can support many clients, just like email. Users will always have the freedom to move their social identity between applications, and developers will always have the freedom to build applications with new features on the network. It is currently in private beta.
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Jul 2022
The network for machine intelligence
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Feb 2022
Rain is a global card issuance and payments infrastructure platform built for the future of tokenized money. We help enterprises, fintechs, and platforms launch compliant card and payment programs, without relying on legacy systems or unnecessary intermediaries. A note on recruiting fraud: Our current recruiters are Julie Nguyen, Alexa Lardas, and Shakiba Sedighi. If youre unsure whether an outreach is legitimate, please message one of these individuals directly or email recruiting@rain.xyz.
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Jan 2022
Onboard users with wallets, build & deploy smart contracts, accept fiat with payments, and scale apps with infrastructure — on any EVM chain.
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Apr 2026
ChipSage Labs is developing advanced AI systems for semiconductor design
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2026
An all-in-one fully integrated software platform and physical execution layer delivering cradle-to-grave AI Factory deployment and operations — an automated, proactive EYE ON the AI Factory to maximize goodput.
2024
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Apr 2024
EXO powers AI you control—secure, scalable, local.
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