# Anand Swaminathan

> Anand Swaminathan is a seed investor at Sage Group (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sage Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-sage-group-plc)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/swaminathananand
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/anandsw
- Website: https://x.com/anandsw
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anand.swaminathan.5

Anand Swaminathan is a seed investor at Sage Group in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Anand Swaminathan is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Chief Strategy Officer of Sage Group. Anand previously worked at McKinsey & Company as a Senior Partner. Anand Swaminathan attended Case Western Reserve University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 46% |
| SaaS | 3 | 23% |
| B2B | 2 | 15% |
| EdTech | 2 | 15% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 69% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 77% |
| India | 1 | 8% |
| Singapore | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tessaract.io | Tessaract.io is a no-code workflow automation platform that helps companies track and manage various workflows, such as project tasks, sales leads, customer relationships, and accounting. | $3.3M | Seed | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Unifimoney | A turn key digital wealth management platform as a service for Community Banks and Credit Unions. With over 70 cryptocurrencies, passive and active investing in over 10K equities and ETF's and precious metals. Unifimoney is already in embedded in Alkami, Q2 and Jack Henry Banno making it easy to implement and embed in a bank or CU'sexisting digital platform. Unifimoney is a low cost, fast and easy way for community FI's to offer a full service money management solution to their members or customers. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Apr 19, 2020 |  |
| Boxspring Entertainment | Box Media.io is reinventing learning and focused on The Future of Work. An AI enabled experience to empower CEO’s, leadership and employees to rapidly learn the skills needed in a reimagined workplace of the future. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 13, 2018 |  |
| Hypersonix | Hypersonix is designed to help direct to consumer businesses drive profitable revenue growth by providing a system of actionable intelligence and recommendations. Hypersonix persistently monitors various commerce systems and data signals to optimize financial performance with predictions that have prescriptive recommendation. The product iscompletely comprehensive in that the entire insights, action, testing and performance measurement are contained to ensure accuracy and time to completion. Its an easy bolt on to e-commerce platforms. | $3.6M | Seed | Oct 01, 2018 |  |
| Boxspring Entertainment | Box Media.io is reinventing learning and focused on The Future of Work. An AI enabled experience to empower CEO’s, leadership and employees to rapidly learn the skills needed in a reimagined workplace of the future. |  | Seed | Apr 13, 2018 |  |
| Bitmovin | Bitmovin is a young and dynamic multimedia company. Their principal expertise is in the domain of information and communication technologies for audio-visual networks, in particular for HTTP streaming services and embedded multimedia applications. Additionally, bitmovin provides consulting and standardization services, specifically towardsISO/IEC MPEG.Bitmovin multimedia is a spin-of company of the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, where most of their experts come from, and the ALICANTE EU FP7-ICT project. Together with the University they are still investigated in all kinds of research in the field of multimedia and especially in state of the art standardization at this sector e.g. ISO/IEC MPEG. Their highly skilled and motivated employees work in their offices in the Lakeside Science & Technology Park, Building B01.Bitmovin offers API-based products to help developers solve the most complex video problems with cloud native software that runs anywhere. The company was founded in 2013 by Stefan Lederer, Christopher Müller and Christian Timmerer.Bitmovin is based in San Francisco, CA, USA and Klagenfurt, Austria and privately owned. The company's investors include Atomico, Dawn Capital, YCombinator (YC S15), SpeedInvest and Constantia Industries. | $10.3M | Series A | Sep 02, 2016 |  |
| Okera | Okera provides secure data access at scale so that data teams have the confidence to unlock the power of their data for innovation and growth. By ensuring that appropriate data access controls are in place and meet the evolving data privacy landscape, the Okera Active Data Access Platform can automatically discover and audit data lakes, createaccess policies using its no-code visual policy engine, and enforce fine-grained access in hybrid and multi-cloud environments such as AWS and Azure. Okera is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, ClearSky Security, and Felicis Ventures. Learn more at www.okera.com or contact us at info@okera.com. | $2.6M | Seed | Aug 31, 2016 |  |
| Kimono Labs | Kimono is a way to turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds. You don't need to write any code or install any software to extract data with Kimono. The easiest way to use Kimono is to add our bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark bar. Then go to the website you want to get data from and click the bookmarklet. Selectthe data you want and Kimono does the rest. | $5M | Seed | Feb 15, 2016 |  |
| Roomstorm | Roomstorm (Formerly WalkSource) is a next generation Business-to-Business network for hoteliers looking to run operations more efficiently and generate more revenue. Roomstorm empowers revenue teams to have more sellout nights by taking in last minute guest relocations from other nearby hotels as well as airlines in need of housing guestsovernight. Roomstorm proudly services over 400 Bay Area hotels and continues to grow with the recent edition of our first airline partner, San Francisco based Virgin America. Our hotel partners confidently overbook their properties, exchange lower priced guests for higher priced ones, find good deals for a relocated guest end-to-end within 5 minutes. By eliminating the pain of dealing with a relocations, we make the market much more efficient. | $1.3M | Seed | May 05, 2015 |  |
| Razorpay | Razorpay is a platform that enables businesses to accept, process, and disburse payments with its product suite. It gives access to all payment modes including credit card, debit card, net banking, UPI and popular wallets including JioMoney, Mobikwik, Airtel Money, FreeCharge, Ola Money, and PayZapp.The company was founded in 2014 and isheadquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $2.6M | Seed | Mar 23, 2015 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CMIA Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmia-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GMO VenturePartners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gmo-venturepartners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Initialized Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initialized-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wavemaker Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wavemaker-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Sage Group

VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Sage provide small and medium-sized organizations with a range of easy-to-use, secure and efficient business management software and services. Its services include accounting and payroll to enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and payments. Its customers receive continuous advice and support through our global network oflocal experts to help them solve their business problems, giving them the confidence to achieve their business ambitions. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

5 contacts available at Sage Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alvaro Ramirez | CEO & President Southern Europe | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alvaro-ramrez |
| Amaya Souarez | EVP, Cloud Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amaya-souarez |
| Anand Swaminathan | Chief Strategy Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-swaminathan |
| Anusha Su | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anusha-su |
| Aziz Benmalek | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aziz-benmalek |

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## FAQ

### What does Anand Swaminathan invest in?

Anand Swaminathan invests primarily in Software, SaaS and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Anand Swaminathan's check size?

Anand Swaminathan typically joins rounds of $1M–$5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Anand Swaminathan participates in.

### When did Anand Swaminathan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anand Swaminathan closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 13 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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