Anand Rajaraman Ph.D

Anand Rajaraman Ph.D General Information

Biography

Dr. Anand Rajaraman serves as a Partner of rocketship.vc. He also is a Co-Founding Partner at Milliways Ventures. He served as Board Member at H2O.ai. He serves as Advisor at PayMate. He was a co-founding Partner and served as Vice President at Cambrian Ventures. He also co-founded & served as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Kosmix. He was a Board Member and served as an Advisor at ClearStory Data. He serves as a board member at Transformic. He serves as Founding Partner at Cambrian Ventures. He is a Founding Partner of WalmartLabs and has served as a Senior Vice President. Prior to founding the firm in 2000, he was the Director of Technology at Amazon.com and was responsible for technology strategy and advanced technology initiatives. He 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. He came to Amazon.com in 1998 through the $250 million acquisition of Junglee which he co-founded. As the Chief Technology Officer, he played a key role in developing Junglee's award-winning Virtual Database technology. He has research and development experience at Stanford University, AT&T Bell Labs, and Xerox PARC. He serves as a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University's Computer Science Department. He has numerous publications, patents, and awards at leading academic and industry forums. He has been featured in articles in Business Week, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other leading national publications. He obtained M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he won the President of India Gold Medal for graduating at the top of his class.