Anand Iyer is the Managing General Partner and Founder of Canonical Crypto. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
Anand Iyer is the Managing General Partner and Founder of Canonical Crypto, an early-stage venture firm in San Francisco focused on web3, blockchain infrastructure, and post-AGI technologies. He previously co-founded Trusted (a childcare marketplace acquired by Care.com) and served as Chief Product Officer at Threadflip, while also holding venture roles at Pear VC and Lightspeed. Canonical leads at the earliest stages with check sizes of $500K–$1.5M, targeting pre-seed and seed investments in foundational blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, web3 gaming, and decentralized consumer apps. Iyer typically acts as a lead investor and has angel investments in Stacks, TrustToken, POAP, Syndica, and BetDEX. Notable portfolio companies include Stacks and TrustToken, both crypto infrastructure projects he backed as an angel. He is a Silicon Valley veteran who started at Microsoft in 2005 and currently teaches online masterclasses in DeFi, reflecting a practitioner-oriented viewpoint on blockchain infrastructure.
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