Rajan Anandan, the man who was the Managing Director at Microsoft India and Vice President India and Southeast Asia at Google, is now an important player in the Indian startup ecosystem. As the Managing Director of Sequoia Capital, he leads Surge, the firm’s accelerator program for early-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia, and has a ringside view of India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
In conversation with Shradha Sharma, Founder, and CEO, YourStory, at TechSparks 2019, Rajan said he felt that the Indian startup ecosystem’s time has come.
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Rajan Anandan is an active investor in early stage technology companies. Rajan brings a deep understanding of technology, a track record of investing in many sectors across technology, first hand experience working closely with founding teams of startups and leading and growing several large technology businesses in US and India. Currently He is working as Managing Director at Sequoia Capital. Prior to Sequoia Capital, Rajan held leadership roles with Google, Microsoft, Dell and was also a Partner with McKinsey &Co.