Anand Rajaraman is a Founding Partner at Rocketship.vc and a pioneering entrepreneur, investor, and technologist who has helped shape the modern internet economy. With a career spanning breakthrough innovations in search, e-commerce, and data science, Anand has played a key role in building technologies that transformed how businesses and consumers interact online.
He previously served as Senior Vice President at Walmart Global eCommerce, co-leading @WalmartLabs, where he drove innovation across social, mobile, and commerce platforms following Walmart’s acquisition of Kosmix, the semantic search company he co-founded. Earlier, Anand co-founded Junglee, an e-commerce pioneer acquired by Amazon, where he contributed to the evolution of Amazon into a global marketplace and co-invented Amazon Mechanical Turk, a landmark crowdsourcing platform.
An early investor in companies such as Facebook and Lyft, Anand combines deep technical insight with venture expertise. A Stanford educator and acclaimed researcher, he continues to influence the future of data-driven innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology at global scale.
