# Anima Anandkumar

> Anima Anandkumar is a seed investor backing Software and Developer APIs. See 1 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jul 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anima-anandkumar-35171b1/
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/animaanandkumar
- Website: https://tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu/users/anima/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnimashreeAnandkumar/

Anima Anandkumar is a seed investor in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Developer APIs. Anima Anandkumar has made fundamental contributions to AI that is revolutionizing scientific modeling and discovery. She invented Neural Operators for learning multiscale phenomena that frequently occur in nature, such as fluid dynamics, material modeling and wave propagation. She employed Neural Operators to train the first AI-basedhigh-resolution weather model. It is tens of thousands of times faster than existing physics-based forecasting, and is running at premier weather agencies. Her AI algorithms have enabled many other scientific advances such as modeling plasma evolution in nuclear fusion, enabling safer autonomous drone flights, and designing novel medical devices, drugs, and functional enzymes. Earlier in her career, Prof. Anandkumar spearheaded the development of tensor methods, probabilistic latent variable models, and analysis of non-convex optimization.Anima is a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and AAAI. She has received several awards, including the Time 100 Impact Award, IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 senior fellow, awards from the Guggenheim, Alfred P. Sloan and Blavatnik Foundations, the NSF Career Award, the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and best paper awards at venues such as Neural Information Processing and the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research. She recently presented her work on AI+Science to the White House Science Council (PCAST), the National AI Advisory Committee, and at TED 2024. Anima received her B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and her Ph.D. from Cornell University and did her postdoctoral research at MIT. She was previously principal scientist at Amazon Web Services and senior director of AI research at NVIDIA.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Developer APIs | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Archipelo | Archipelo develops an intelligent code discovery engine for software developers. Archipelo is the San Francisco, California. | $8M | Seed | Jul 17, 2021 | https://archipelo.com/ |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dell Technologies Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dell-technologies-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LoftyInc Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loftyinc-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nima-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Samsung NEXT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samsungnext) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Anima Anandkumar invest in?

Anima Anandkumar invests primarily in Software, Developer APIs and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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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### When did Anima Anandkumar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anima Anandkumar closed in Jul 2021. Shizune tracks 1 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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