# Anand Subramanian

> Anand Subramanian is a funding round investor at Macquarie Capital backing Retail and Fashion. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Macquarie Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/macquarie-capital-funds)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-subramanian-50151a/

Anand Subramanian is a funding round investor at Macquarie Capital in San Francisco focused on Retail and Fashion. Anand joined Qatalyst in December 2014 and leads the firm's private capital raising practice. Prior to joining Qatalyst, Anand spent almost ten years in Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equities and Global Capital Markets division, where most recently he led the launch and subsequent build-out of Morgan Stanley's Private Capital Marketsbusiness.Anand has led more than $8 billion in capital raising transactions over the last 4 years for companies such as Alert Logic, Alibaba, Asurion, Box, DocuSign, Ironsource, Just Fab, Mobileye, Ozon, Opera Solutions, Privalia, Telogis, and others.He has worked with companies in many jurisdictions (including the US, Brazil, Canada, China, Israel and Spain) on a wide variety of financings, including growth/pre-IPO capital, de-leveraging, event-driven and recapitalizations. Mr. Subramanian also has hands-on experience building disruptive technology businesses, having led in 2000 the creation of EquiLend (www.equilend.com), the first centralized, automated trading platform in securities lending, which now handles over $20 billion in trades daily.Anand grew up in Houston, Texas, and received a B.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He now resides in Menlo Park with his wife Geetha and son Kiran.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 33% |
| Fashion | 1 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |
| Finance | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 2 | 67% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| JOOR | JOOR is a digital retail platform developer whose goal is to improve the complete wholesale purchasing process. The company's platform connects various brands with retailers worldwide to remove time-consuming, error-prone manual processes, allowing brands and retailers to increase incremental income, cut expenses, improve customer experience,and monitor performance using data analytics. | $25M |  | Oct 17, 2023 |  |
| JOOR | JOOR is a digital retail platform developer whose goal is to improve the complete wholesale purchasing process. The company's platform connects various brands with retailers worldwide to remove time-consuming, error-prone manual processes, allowing brands and retailers to increase incremental income, cut expenses, improve customer experience,and monitor performance using data analytics. | $46M | Series D | Jun 15, 2021 |  |
| Bluefin | Bluefin is the recognized leader in encryption and tokenization technologies for payment and data security. Our security suite includes PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) for contactless face-to-face, call center, mobile and unattended payments, and our ShieldConex® data security platform for the protection of personally IdentifiableInformation (PII), Personal Health Information (PHI), and payment data entered online. The company’s partner network currently includes over 135 processors, payment gateways and ISV’s operating in 36 countries, which provide Bluefin’s P2PE solutions direct to merchants, enterprises, healthcare organizations and more. Bluefin is a Participating Organization (PO) of the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) and is headquartered in Atlanta, with offices in Waterford, Ireland. For more information, please visit www.bluefin.com. | $25M |  | Oct 27, 2020 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Akkadian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akkadian-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brightwood Capital Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brightwood-capital-advisors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ITOCHU Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itochu-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Tamarix Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tamarix-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Macquarie Capital

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Macquarie Capital Funds (Europe) Ltd. provides banking, financial, advisory, investment, and funds management services to institutional, corporate, and retail clients.It offers specialist and the United Kingdom investment funds, real estate capital, and renewable energy investment services; corporate and real estate structured finance advisoryservices; and financial services, including institutional stock broking and research, equity structured finance and derivatives, treasury and commodities activities, environmental market, lending and asset financing, and business lending.Macquarie Capital Funds (Europe) Ltd. was formerly known as Macquarie Investment Management (UK) Limited and changed its name to Macquarie Capital Funds (Europe) Ltd.

5 contacts available at Macquarie Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Glenn Butler | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glenn-butler-d4be |
| Michael J Hawker | Board of Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-j-hawker |
| Michael P. Huerta | Senior Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-p--huerta |
| Anand Subramanian | Managing Director and Co-head of Private Capital Markets | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-subramanian-7 |
| Andrea Kim | SVP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-kim-431a |

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## FAQ

### What does Anand Subramanian invest in?

Anand Subramanian invests primarily in Retail, Fashion and FinTech startups, most often at Funding Round and Series D stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Anand Subramanian last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anand Subramanian closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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