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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, Silo, and Titan. 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.

Latest Posts

“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 (January 2021 Fintech Newsletter)

by Anish Acharya, Seema Amble, Rex Salisbury, Matthieu Hafemeister, and Alex Rampell
  • fintech
  • 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
  • policy & regulation
  • go to market
  • going global
  • growth
  • how innovation happens
  • IPOs
  • metrics
  • end of year roundups
  • trends 2020

The Big Ideas Fintech Will Tackle in 2021

by Alex Rampell, Angela Strange, Anish Acharya, Seema Amble, Rex Salisbury, and Matthieu Hafemeister
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  • design
  • fintech
  • innovation clusters
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  • go to market
  • growth
  • end of year roundups
  • fintech newsletter
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From @illscience

Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong

Twitter has broken just about every piece of this FTX story using blockchain analytics, while NYT is writing puff pieces on a criminal. Feels like a turning point for citizen journalism and loss of trust in MSM.

Anish Acharya@illscience

Facts .. building games is an exercise is courage, patience and tolerance for pain. https://t.co/Ir8jyFBAqN

Joe Schmidt IV@joeschmidtiv

Identify low NPS industry, vertically integrate, and eventually become a unicorn? Not that simple! Hell's Flywheel describes the exhausting margin creation > consumption hampster wheel that hinders many direct-to-consumer companies. https://t.co/fk4DgXE6ap

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