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Nandu Anilal is an investor at Canaan Partners focusing on enterprise technology investments. His investment thesis revolves around the rise of the Data Company, Changes in Distribution, and Heading to the LakeHouse with specific investment themes for 2021. Nandu Anilal’s investment focus areas include applications on top of the warehouse, M&A trends, data security controls, extending ML to the mid-market, and NLP advancements. He typically invests in Series A startups in sectors like Fashion, Robotics, Cloud Infrastructure, AI, and Enterprise. With an investment range of $250K – $20.0M and a sweet spot at $10.0M, Nandu Anilal operates with a current fund size of $800M. His geographical preference is location-agnostic and he has notable co-investors including Bob Williams and Brendan Dickinson. Nandu Anilal’s partnership and collaboration styles are driven by data tools and infrastructure observations, focusing on growth and scale in businesses like Snowflake and Databricks.
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Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed
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Status: very-active
AI Reasoning: Search found public posts and profiles confirming Nandu Anilal is actively investing; his Substack end-of-year post (dated Jan 1, 2025) states he is leading investments and spending time at seed in 2024, indicating recent activity within the last 6 months. The post does not name a specific startup investment but indicates ongoing investment activity during 2024, so his most recent known activity is within the past 6 months.
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