VC firm Sequoia Capital ropes in Google India MD Rajan Anandan

Sequoia Capital has roped in Rajan Anandan as a Managing Director. He will join the leadership team at the firm, which already includes six managing directors. Anandan will focus on developing Surge into the world’s top scale-up program for start-ups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme’s founders, the VC firm said in a blog post.

Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for start-ups by enabling disproportionate access to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan’s deep understanding of technology, significant operating expertise and track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge founders scale and build the transformational businesses of tomorrow, Sequoia said.