Anish Acharya, who had spent two years from 2012 at GV, an early-stage corporate venturing unit of internet and technology conglomerate Alphabet, joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz yesterday.
Acharya’s role as a general partner will involve him overseeing fintech deals on behalf of the VC firm, having most recently spent four years at credit management service provider Credit Karma.
Acharya started engaging with the startup ecosystem when he founded mobile game publisher SocialDeck in 2008 before the company was acquired by Alphabet almost three years later.
As part of the deal, Alphabet hired Acharya in 2010 as lead product manager to run Google’s social media initiatives, before assigning him a partner position at GV two years later to focus on social media and adtech investments.
He became entrepreneur-in-residence at GV in 2014 and founded messaging and notification unifying app developer Snowball, raising $2.3m from the unit and other investors. Credit Karma acquired the startup in 2015 and brought him on board.
Acharya said: “It has been incredible working alongside the talented team at Credit Karma for the past four years and I am excited to share what I have learned from being an operator at such a meaningful company – and being a startup founder myself – with the next wave of great fintech founders.”
– Photo of Anish Acharya courtesy of LinkedIn
