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Anish Acharya

Consumer Investing @ A16Z

San Francisco, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $100,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2019

    Announced investments: Series B investments: Titan: https://a16z.com/2021/07/20/investing-in-titan/ Series A investments: Silo: https://a16z.com/2020/09/24/investing-in-silo/ Mosaic: https://a16z.com/2020/09/02/investing-in-mosaic/ Deel: https://a16z.com/2020/05/21/investing-in-deel/ Seed investments: Carbonated: https://www.carbonated.com/ Runway: https://a16z.com/2020/06/25/investing-in-runway/ Arc Boats: https://twitter.com/illscience/status/1420891974081544192 Partyround: https://twitter.com/illscience/status/1461390728580382724?s=21

2015 - 2019

  • GM, Core Product

    2017 - 2019

  • VP, Product Management

    2017 - 2019

  • GM, U.S. Card

    2016 - 2017

  • Senior Director, Product Management

    2015 - 2017

    Credit Karma is the largest consumer internet company focused on helping users with their finances, with over 75MM users and over $500MM in 2016 revenue. Owner of all consumer facing experiences, including the website & apps.

  • Founder & CEO

    2014 - 2015

    Founder and CEO; led all aspects of the product and business from inception to acquisition by Credit Karma. Founded Snowball as an effort to reimagine the mobile operating system by re-defining the core system experiences, beginning with messaging and notifications. The first product was a unified messaging app and our second product was a smart inbox for notifications, both launched to industry acclaim. Snowball also broke new technical ground by pioneering the ability to extend the Android OS from an app in the Play Store. Snowball raised $2.3MM from Google Ventures, First Round, Felicis etc.

2010 - 2014

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2014 - 2014

    Moved into Entrepreneur In Residence role in support of building a new company (Snowball). Raised $2.3MM in a round led by First Round & Google Ventures to spin Snowball out of GV.

  • Partner

    2012 - 2014

    Joined Google Ventures as an investing partner with an external focus on gaming + consumer internet. Led and supported deals across marketplaces, messaging, mid-core gaming, and ad-tech. Restructured organization to streamline all aspects of operations.

  • Lead Product Manager, Social

    2010 - 2012

    Built & led early mobile teams for Google+ including iOS, Android, platform and more. Promoted multiple times to eventually run all mobile efforts for Google Social.

  • Founder & CEO

    2008 - 2010

    Founder and CEO; led all aspects of the product and business from inception to acquisition by Google. Grew network to over 2MM players and 10 games on a single institutional round, 5X exit for investors. Founded SocialDeck as a social platform and publisher for mobile games, connecting a network of players across devices and platforms. SocialDeck pioneered many of the now-standard industry concepts, such as use of address book for virality / graph, cross-device gameplay, and discovery outside of the AppStore.

2004 - 2008

  • Software Development Engineer

    2004 - 2008

    Developer on the Distributed System Engineering and Checkout By Amazon teams. Promoted to SDE-II after successful work in the effort to migrate Amazon to a service oriented architecture.

2000 - 2000

  • Software Development Intern

    2000 - 2000

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