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Rajan Anandan Quit Google, Joined Sequoia Capital

2Apr By NitishNo Comments

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Rajan Anandan Quit Google, Joined Sequoia Capital

Google's Vice President for South East Asia and India, Rajan Anandan quits Google India to join Sequoia Capital India as a Managing Director. Serving at Google for 8 years, Rajan now move to Sequoia India where he will focus on developing "Surge" into the world's top scale-up programme for startups, said Shailendra J. Singh, Managing Director at Sequoia. Rajan will join the leadership team at the firm, in addition to the six current Managing Directors. Anandan will continue at Google till the end of April and Vikas Agnihotri, Country Director, Sales will take on the responsibility in the interim for Google India, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. After news break, Anandan tweets, 8 amazing years. 850million internet users across India and SEA. Many billions of r...

Google India Head Rajan Anandan Appointed IAMAI Chairman

25May By AnkitaNo Comments

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Google India Head Rajan Anandan Appointed IAMAI Chairman

Google vice-president for South East Asia and India, Rajan Anandan has been appointed new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). He took over charge from FreeCharges co-founder and chief executive officer Kunal Shah. MakeMyTrip Chairman & Group CEO Deep Kalra has taken over as vice chairman from music app Saavn co-founder and President Vinodh Bhat. Facebook Managing Director India & South Asia, Umang Bedi has been elected as the new Treasurer of the Association. Subho Ray continues to be the President of the Association, IAMAI said in a statement. The tenure of the new council is for two years. "Anandan assumes office at a time when the industry is going through a growth trajectory with more than 400 million Internet users and with more than 300 m...

Google’s Rajan Anandan Backs Education Start-up Stoodnt.com

13Sep By NitishNo Comments

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Google’s Rajan Anandan Backs Education Start-up Stoodnt.com

Palo Alto-based education start-up Stoodnt – which helps students aspiring to study abroad by connecting them with high-quality college admission counsellors, and providing guidance, insights and online tools – has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Rajan Anandan, Vice-President, Google, South-East Asia and India. Anandan has emerged as the most prolific angel investor in India. He primarily invests in early-stage technology companies in sectors like the internet, mobile and software. The funds will be used to enhance the user experience, for product development and to expand the user and brand base. Launched in 2016 by Harvard Business School Alumni, Ajay Singh and Yuri Punj, and software entrepreneur Sena Palanisami, Stoodnt recently started operations in India, its fi...

20Apr By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Rapido Raises Funding From Pawan Munjal, Rajan Anandan & Others

Bike taxi operator Rapido has received undisclosed amount of funding from a clutch of investors, including Hero MotoCorp Chairman Pawan Munjal, Google India head Rajan Anandan and early stage investment firms AdvantEdge Partners, Astarc Ventures and Tesellate Ventures among others. "Rapido is a commendable initiative and has the potential to generate significant employment, besides making convenient motorised transport accessible to the masses. With their strong background and passion, I believe that the founders of Rapido are well positioned to deliver on their promise," Munjal, who invested in his personal capacity, said Munjal, who invested in his personal capacity, said. Other investors include People group founder Anupam Mittal, Smile Group Partners; former Flipkart chief business o...

18Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Smytten, a Discovery Platform For Premium Lifestyle Products, Raises Funding From Rajan Anandan

Smytten, an online discovery platform for premium lifestyle products and services, has raised an undisclosed amount as funding from Rajan Anandan, prolific angel investor, and Vice President and Managing Director of Google, SouthEast Asia and India. The Team will use this round of funding for enhancing user experience, product development and expanding both user and brand base. The company is going to pay special attention to artificial intelligence and algorithmically personalise offerings on their platform. ALSO READ: Ex-Unilever and Google Executives Launched Smytten, a Platform For Premium Brands to Reach Their Target Consumers Smytten provides its customers an engaging and curated discovery trial and shopping experience for premium products and services. Within just si...