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Anish Acharya

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Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests primarily in financial services and adjacent technologies. He currently serves on the boards of Deel, Mosaic, and Silo. He also led the firm’s seed investments Runway and Carbonated, among others. Anish joined Andreessen Horowitz in 2019.

Prior to joining a16z, Anish held multiple roles at Credit Karma including the General Manager of Core Product and General Manager of U.S. Card, which he helped scale to over 100MM members and nearly $1B in 2019 revenue. Anish joined Credit Karma in 2015 via the acquisition of Snowball, a notifications startup he founded a year earlier.

Prior to creating Snowball, Anish founded SocialDeck, a social-gaming company that was acquired by Google in 2010. He went on to lead various mobile product efforts as well as invest at Google Ventures. Anish graduated from the University of Waterloo and lives in the Bay Area with his family.

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Wall Street vs. Main Street: Amateur Investors Buy Into IPOs

by Seema Amble, Rex Salisbury, Matthieu Hafemeister, Angela Strange, Anish Acharya, and Alex Rampell
  • fintech
  • mobile (& messaging)
  • news
  • going global
  • fintech newsletter

“Buy and Hold” No More: The Resurgence of Active Trading

by Anish Acharya and Matthieu Hafemeister
  • fintech
  • online communities
  • open source
  • policy & regulation

Fintech taps influencers; Walmart and Google ramp up financial services; Simple shutters, and more

by Anish Acharya, Seema Amble, Rex Salisbury, Matthieu Hafemeister, and Alex Rampell
  • APIs
  • fintech
  • news
  • policy & regulation
  • fintech newsletter

A Year in Fintech in 50 Words

by Alex Rampell, Angela Strange, Anish Acharya, Seema Amble, Rex Salisbury, and Matthieu Hafemeister
  • APIs
  • education
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • fintech
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • mobile (& messaging)
  • news
  • online communities
  • open source
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  • go to market
  • going global
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  • how innovation happens
  • IPOs
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  • end of year roundups
  • trends 2020

From @illscience

Anish Acharya@illscience

Great thread below outlining the impact and opportunity as the line between customers, investors and owners continues to blur. https://t.co/sxTU6h6mCh

Sumeet Singh@sumeet724

Some ~personal news~ I’ve joined @a16z as an investment partner on the fintech team‼️ Already feels natural to work with @illscience, @astrange, @arampell, @seema_amble, @matt_haf, and our ops team If you’re a founder working on fintech / consumer / crypto, I’d love to chat!

Anish Acharya@illscience

🎈 I'm super excited to welcome @sumeet724 to the A16Z fintech fam! Prior to joining he was at @hellobrigitapp + @nyca, founder @ creature / of, and angel invested in many rad companies like @reserveprotocol, @hello_orum, @getmati, @listentopodz, @streamclubhq, @niradotcom. 🎈

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