Anand Iyer
Venture Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
San Francisco, United States
Anand Iyer is a seed investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Anand Iyer is the Founder and Managing General Partner of Canonical Crypto. He previously worked at Pear VC as a Visiting Partner. Anand Iyer attended Purdue University.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
Last updated:
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Industries Anand Iyer invests in
Stages Anand Iyer invests in
Countries Anand Iyer invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 4 (36%)
- FinTech 3 (27%)
- Blockchain 3 (27%)
- Cryptocurrency 3 (27%)
- Software 2 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (64%)
- Series C 2 (18%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (9%)
- Series A 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Mesta, a fintech company changing global payment networks with hybrid fiat and stablecoin payment rails, has launched its cross-border payment platform. | $5.5M / Seed / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Mesta, a fintech company changing global payment networks with hybrid fiat and stablecoin payment rails, has launched its cross-border payment platform. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jan 22, 2025 | ||
| Phantom is a digital wallet reimagined for DeFi and NFTs. Phantom makes it safe & easy for you to store, send, receive, stake, and swap tokens on the Solana blockchain. It was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $150M / Series C / Jan 16, 2025 | ||
| Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future. | $55M / Series A / Aug 15, 2024 | ||
| Blackwing runs a range of modular apps while retaining decentralization, and it is distinguished by leverage trading. | $4.5M / Seed / Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.3M / Seed / Apr 26, 2023 | ||
| Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future. | $20M / Seed / Feb 21, 2023 | ||
| Sentio's goal is to hasten the spread of decentralized applications (DApps) by introducing the crypto community to the best and most effective infrastructure, infrastructure, and developer tools. | $6.4M / Seed / Feb 21, 2023 | ||
| Meso is the developer of a web3 native payment platform intended to connect banks and cards to crypto apps. | Seed / May 12, 2022 | ||
| Alchemy is a web3 developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications. Its mission is to provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology without the hassle of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house. | $200M / Series C / Feb 08, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social.
Lightspeed Venture Partners Contacts
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Arsham Memarzadeh
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Galym Imanbayev
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James Ephrati
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Justin Overdorff
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Michael Mignano
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What does Anand Iyer invest in?
Anand Iyer invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Anand Iyer closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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