Anand Rajaraman

Anand is a founding partner at Milliways Ventures.
Prior to starting Milliways, he was senior vice president at Walmart Global eCommerce, where he co-headed @WalmartLabs, focused at the intersection of social, mobile, and commerce.
Anand came to Walmart when Kosmix, the startup he co-founded, in 2011, was acquired by the multinational.
Anand also was a founding partner of Cambrian Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm.
His investments include Aster Data Systems (Teradata), Efficient Frontier (Adobe), Neoteris (Juniper), Transformic (Google), Kaltix (Google), India Infoline (IPO 2005), Chaupaati (Future Group), and HighTail (formerly known as YouSendIt), among other companies.
Other investments include ClearStory, Lyft and Whisper.
He was in the handful of early investors in Facebook in 2005.
In 1996, Anand co-founded Junglee, an e-commerce pioneer.
As chief technology officer, Anand played a key role in developing Junglee's award-winning virtual database technology.
In 1998, Amazon.com acquired Junglee for over $250 million.
Anand helped launch the transformation of Amazon.com from a retailer into a retail platform, enabling third-party retailers to sell on Amazon.com's website.
Anand is also a co-inventor of Amazon Mechanical Turk, which pioneered the concepts of crowdsourcing and hybrid human-machine computation.
As an academic, Anand's research has focused at the intersection of database systems, the worldwide web, and social media.
His research publications have won several awards, including two retrospective 10-year Best Paper awards at ACM SIGMOD and VLDB which measure the impact of research on academia and industry over a 10-year period.
In 2012, Fast Company magazine named Anand to its list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."