Anand Rajaraman
Chief Executive Officer at Junglee
Profile
Anand is a founding partner at Milliways Ventures.
Prior to starting Milliways, he was senior vice president at Walmart Global eCommerce, where he co-headed @WalmartLabs, focused at the intersection of social, mobile, and commerce.
Anand came to Walmart when Kosmix, the startup he co-founded, in 2011, was acquired by the multinational.
Anand also was a founding partner of Cambrian Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm.
His investments include Aster Data Systems (Teradata), Efficient Frontier (Adobe), Neoteris (Juniper), Transformic (Google), Kaltix (Google), India Infoline (IPO 2005), Chaupaati (Future Group), and HighTail (formerly known as YouSendIt), among other companies.
Other investments include ClearStory, Lyft and Whisper.
He was in the handful of early investors in Facebook in 2005.
In 1996, Anand co-founded Junglee, an e-commerce pioneer.
As chief technology officer, Anand played a key role in developing Junglee's award-winning virtual database technology.
In 1998, Amazon.com acquired Junglee for over $250 million.
Anand helped launch the transformation of Amazon.com from a retailer into a retail platform, enabling third-party retailers to sell on Amazon.com's website.
Anand is also a co-inventor of Amazon Mechanical Turk, which pioneered the concepts of crowdsourcing and hybrid human-machine computation.
As an academic, Anand's research has focused at the intersection of database systems, the worldwide web, and social media.
His research publications have won several awards, including two retrospective 10-year Best Paper awards at ACM SIGMOD and VLDB which measure the impact of research on academia and industry over a 10-year period.
In 2012, Fast Company magazine named Anand to its list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."
Anand Rajaraman active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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Rocketship VC LLC
Rocketship VC LLC Investment ManagersFinance Rocketship VC LLC (Rocketship VC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Venky Harinarayan, Sailesh Ramakrishnan and Anand Rajaraman. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2014-12-31 |
Milliways Ventures
Milliways Ventures Investment ManagersFinance Milliways Ventures (Milliways Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Anand Rajaraman and Venkatesh Harinarayan. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California. | Founder | 2012-12-31 |
Junglee
Junglee Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Junglee is a private company that provides a platform to help consumers find and compare products for purchase. The company is based in Atherton, CA. The company was founded in 1996 by Rakesh Mathur, Anand Rajaraman, Venky Harinarayan. Anand Rajaraman has been the CEO since 1996. | Chief Executive Officer | 1995-12-31 |
Former positions of Anand Rajaraman
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Cambrian Ventures, Inc.
Cambrian Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Cambrian Ventures, Inc (Cambrian Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Venkatesh HariNarayan. The firm is headquartered in Livermore, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2014-12-31 |
Aster Data Systems, Inc.
Aster Data Systems, Inc. Data Processing ServicesTechnology Services Aster Data Systems, Inc. provides data analytics solutions for the enterprises. The company was founded by George Candea, Mayank Bawa and Tasso Argyros in May 2005 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA. | Director/Board Member | 2011-03-30 |
Chaupaati Bazaar Pvt Ltd. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 2011-01-01 |
AMAZON.COM, INC. | Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer | 1999-12-30 |
Junglee Corp.
Junglee Corp. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Junglee Corp. provides shopping information over the internet. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company was founded by Venkatesh Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Ashish Gupta, Rakesh Mathur. Junglee was acquired by Amazon.com, Inc. on August 04, 1998 for $173.20 million. | Founder | 1998-12-30 |
Training of Anand Rajaraman
Stanford University | Doctorate Degree |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Undergraduate Degree |
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AMAZON.COM, INC. | Retail Trade |
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Walmart Labs
Walmart Labs Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Walmart Labs operates as a business unit that creates platforms, products and businesses around social and mobile commerce to support Walmart’s global strategy. The company was founded by Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan and is headquartered in San Bruno, CA. | Technology Services |
Junglee Corp.
Junglee Corp. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Junglee Corp. provides shopping information over the internet. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company was founded by Venkatesh Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Ashish Gupta, Rakesh Mathur. Junglee was acquired by Amazon.com, Inc. on August 04, 1998 for $173.20 million. | Technology Services |
Cambrian Ventures, Inc.
Cambrian Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Cambrian Ventures, Inc (Cambrian Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Venkatesh HariNarayan. The firm is headquartered in Livermore, California. | Finance |
Aster Data Systems, Inc.
Aster Data Systems, Inc. Data Processing ServicesTechnology Services Aster Data Systems, Inc. provides data analytics solutions for the enterprises. The company was founded by George Candea, Mayank Bawa and Tasso Argyros in May 2005 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA. | Technology Services |
Chaupaati Bazaar Pvt Ltd. | |
Rocketship VC LLC
Rocketship VC LLC Investment ManagersFinance Rocketship VC LLC (Rocketship VC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Venky Harinarayan, Sailesh Ramakrishnan and Anand Rajaraman. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California. | Finance |
Junglee
Junglee Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Junglee is a private company that provides a platform to help consumers find and compare products for purchase. The company is based in Atherton, CA. The company was founded in 1996 by Rakesh Mathur, Anand Rajaraman, Venky Harinarayan. Anand Rajaraman has been the CEO since 1996. | Technology Services |
Milliways Ventures
Milliways Ventures Investment ManagersFinance Milliways Ventures (Milliways Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Anand Rajaraman and Venkatesh Harinarayan. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California. | Finance |
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