Anand Kamannavar
VP/Global Head of Applied Ventures / Corporate Business Development @ Applied Ventures
About
Experienced Venture Capitalist and New Business Development Executive managing over $500M VC investments over 19 countries. Physical AI / GAI / Deeptech VC / Energy Sustainability investor with multiple IPOs (Enphase, Adesto, Infinera, Solid Energy) and strong exits (Voltaix, Tessolve). Led spinoff of Elevated Materials partnering with TPG and raising capital raise from global investors. Strong Team Building, Business & Corporate Development, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Product Marketing, and Start-ups Mentoring. Built high-performance teams from scratch to create new business in photonics, optics, and materials with partnerships with leading players (Facebook/Meta, Google)
United States
Saratoga
Venture Capital & Private Equity
Board Governance, International Joint Ventures, Corporate Venture Capital, Spinoff, Board Level, Semiconductors, Start-ups, Team Building, Solar Energy, Leadership, Cleantech, IPO, Venture Capital, Product Management, Business Development, Mergers, Business Strategy, Financial Modeling, Valuation, Entrepreneurship
Experience
VP/Global Head of Applied Ventures / Corporate Business Development
Applied Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Oversee and Manage Applied Ventures $500m+ global venture portfolio of 100+ companies across the globe. Led spinoff of Elevated Materials - largest spinoff in Applied Materials history in partnership with TPG. Created Complex and Consequential Value Sharing Agreements across the ecosystem
Tech Advisory Board Member
Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute
Silicon Valley, California, United States
Board Observer
VVDN Technologies
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Board Member
Ayar Labs
Santa Clara, California, United States
Corporate Spinoff - Elevated Materials
Elevated Materials
Led spinoff of Applied’s battery division in partnership with TPG Rise PE fund
Board Observer (NYSE: SES)
SES AI
Board Member
Adaptive3D
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Acquired by Desktop Metal
General Partner
Partnership Ventures
Silicon Valley, California
MD, Head of New Business Development
Applied Materials
San Francisco Bay Area
Head of New Business Development group and Growth Accelerator at Applied Materials. Identified and led the creation of multiple new business (Life Sciences, Optics, Energy Storage,Industrial 4.0), and built global partnerships with large companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Thermofisher), startups, research organizations (IMEC, Cyclotron) and drove new business models in new and adjacent markets.
Senior Director Venture Capital
Applied Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Education
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship
Dean's Honor List - All Quarters Graduated with Honors and Beta Gamma Sigma
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Electrical Engineering
Intel's Award for Best VLSI Project Accenture LEAD Fellow
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Computer Engineering
Multiscalar research team Advisors - Prof. Jim Smith, Guri Sohi
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