Rajan Anandan
Angel Investor @ Surge
Rajan Anandan is a seed investor at Surge focused on Software and E-Commerce. As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
- Total investments:
- 153
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
Last updated:
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Industries Rajan Anandan invests in
Stages Rajan Anandan invests in
Countries Rajan Anandan invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $200k–$4M
- Angel
- $30k–$650k
- Series A
- $4M–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 34 (22%)
- E-Commerce 22 (14%)
- Information Technology 19 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 19 (12%)
- SaaS 16 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 83 (54%)
- Angel 19 (12%)
- Series A 17 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (6%)
- Funding Round 7 (5%)
Country
- India 81 (53%)
- United States 18 (12%)
- Singapore 10 (7%)
- Indonesia 2 (1%)
- United Kingdom 2 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Vaaree is a home furnishing and decor marketplace that offers over 90,000 home products. The company provides a wide range of products from kitchenware catering to home cooks to bedding that ensures maximum comfort. Prioritizing affordability, Vaaree curates products from carefully vetted exporters and manufacturers. Through its factory-to-homeapproach, the company aims to enhance logistics and supply chain efficiency while reducing expenses on advertising and packaging, all in an effort to maintain competitive prices. | $6.8M / Series A / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Round1.ai is an AI-powered candidate screening platform that automates initial interviews to help recruiters hire faster and more efficiently. It evaluates applicants using dynamic, skill-based questions in chat or audio formats, focusing on real-world abilities while minimizing bias.The platform analyzes job descriptions to create tailoredcandidate personas, then screens resumes from uploads, emails, LinkedIn posts, or ATS integrations. It shortlists top candidates with detailed insights, fit/risk scores, and interview summaries, claiming to cut screening time by up to 80%. | Seed / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Zoop is a social and live commerce bazaar. Our mission is to bring the feeling of India’s vibrant bazaar to the internet, safe and secure, for everyone. | Seed / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Kello.ai is an AI recruiting platform that helps teams hire faster by rediscovering past applicants, enabling plain-English resume searches, evaluating engineers via GitHub code analysis, and integrating with tools like Gmail, Google Forms, LinkedIn Easy Apply, and ATS systems such as Lever, Greenhouse, and Freshteams. | Seed / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
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Memfold AI
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Memfold AI builds AI-native workspaces to transform knowledge work. It reimagines tools for research and document creation. Its flagship, Almanac, uses AI agents that retain context, memory, and user intent across sessions. This enables seamless human-AI collaboration, unlike retrofitting AI onto old software. | Seed / Feb 17, 2026 | |
| Companion Labs focuses on delivering companionship services aimed at "Bringing Companionship to a Billion Indians" through technology solutions. The company operates in the technology, information, and internet sector, likely emphasizing AI-driven or digital companionship tools tailored for the Indian market. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| C2i Semiconductors is a stealth-mode fabless semiconductor design business that focuses on analogue and mixed-signal designs. | $16.7M / Series A / Feb 16, 2026 | ||
| Vaaree is a home furnishing and decor marketplace that offers over 90,000 home products. The company provides a wide range of products from kitchenware catering to home cooks to bedding that ensures maximum comfort. Prioritizing affordability, Vaaree curates products from carefully vetted exporters and manufacturers. Through its factory-to-homeapproach, the company aims to enhance logistics and supply chain efficiency while reducing expenses on advertising and packaging, all in an effort to maintain competitive prices. | $2.1M / Seed / Jul 12, 2025 | ||
| Brainfish is a trailblazing artificial intelligence (AI) company that specializes in delivering seamless customer experience (CX) solutions by harnessing the power of natural language processing (NLP). Our groundbreaking technology transforms the way customers and businesses interact globally, by providing instant answers to customer servicequeries in any language, and uplifting and enhancing customer support agents. | $6.4M / Seed / Jul 08, 2025 | ||
| MasterChow is a ready-to-cook Asian cuisine brand. | $6.5M / Series A / Nov 30, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Surge
Surge is a rapid-scale up program for startups in India and Southeast Asia. Surge combines $1 million to $2 million of seed capital with company-building workshops, global immersion trips and support from a community of exceptional mentors and founders. The goal to supercharge startups and give founders an unfair advantage during the early-stagesof company building. For more information on Surge, visit http://surgeahead.com
Surge Contacts
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Payal Banerjee
Director and Head of Communications, India and Southeast Asia
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Pieter Kemps
Principal
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FAQ
What does Rajan Anandan invest in?
Rajan Anandan invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 153 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Rajan Anandan's check size?
Rajan Anandan typically joins rounds of $200k–$4M at Seed, $30k–$650k at Angel and $4M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rajan Anandan participates in.
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When did Rajan Anandan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rajan Anandan closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 153 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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