Anand Rajaraman

Anand Rajaraman (@anand_raj) co-founded Kosmix with Venky Harinarayan with the vision of connecting people to information that makes a difference in their lives. Upon the acquisition of Kosmix by Walmart, Anand serves as SVP Walmart Global eCommerce and Head of @WalmartLabs. Together with Venky, Anand is a founding partner at Cambrian Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm whose investments include Aster Data (Teradata), Neoteris (Juniper Networks), Kaltix (Google), Transformic (Google), Gradiance and Efficient Frontier. Anand serves on the board of directors at Aster Data and Gradiance. Anand and Venky are active angel investors and are among the handful of preferred angel investors in Facebook in 2005. See More… Along with Venky, Anand co-founded Junglee, the company that pioneered Internet comparison shopping, in 1996. After Amazon’s acquisition of Junglee in 1998 for over $250 million, Anand helped create Amazon’s marketplace business, which today accounts for over 30 percent of Amazon’s gross merchandise sales. Anand and Venky are also co-inventors of the concept underlying the Amazon.com Mechanical Turk technology. Anand teaches a class on Data Mining at the computer science department at Stanford University. He recently co-authored a textbook, Mining of Massive Datasets, with Stanford University professor Jeff Ullman. Anand obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science from Stanford University and his bachelor’s in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he received the President’s Gold Medal for academic excellence. He regularly writes about venture capital, entrepreneurship, big data, search, and social media on his blog Datawocky and on Twitter (@anand_raj).