Anand Iyer is the Managing Partner of Canonical, an early stage fund based in San Francsico focused on investing in frontier technologies such as AI, robotics and crypto. Iyer is a Silicon Valley veteran. He started his career working at Microsoft as a Product Manager in 2005. He then founded Trusted which was subsequently acquired by a public company Care, in 2018. Anand then joined Lightspeed as a Venture Partner. Anand has a degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University.