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Anil Hansjee

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Anil Hansjee is an investor in the early seed companies in the internet space and is currently creating a disruptive funding approach to that market. In addition, since June 2011 he was appointed a senior advisor for the Internet Industry to EQT Funds, a major Continental European PE firm. He took his first public company non exec board role in April 2012 with Zattikka, an AIM listed digital entertainment company.

Anil was with Google from September 2006 to June 2011. At Google he was responsible for Google’s acquisitions and strategic investments in the region as well as relationships with the early stage technology community and their backers and advisers. Anil led investments, and was a board observer for Google, into FON (Spain), Mobile Planet (Kenya) and Ubiquisys (UK) as well as selling Google investment dotMobi to Afilias. In aggregate, Anil has overseen $450m of deals for Google, completed over $230m worth of deals, $140m originated by himself directly, incl. Googles first acquisition of a European publicly listed company Global IP Solutions.

Prior to joining Google, Anil was a Principal with the venture capital firm IDG Ventures, where he led investments and was board director, in the mobile music company, Shazam Entertainment as well as selling Lionhead to Microsoft. Between mid 2000 and end of 2001, Anil was a Vice President for corporate finance with Bear Stearns International in London completing deals such as the sale of Geneva Technologies to Convergys for $692m. Between mid 1997 and mid 2000, Anil was a member of Chase Manhattan Bank’s corporate finance group both in New York and London. Anil joined Chase’s corporate finance team after spending the first 7 years of his professional career as a software engineer and business analyst in the front office financial services sector in Chicago and London with O’Connor Associates (now UBS) and Chase.

Anil received an Honorary Doctorate in computing in 2011, for services to entrepreneurial IT sector in the UK. Anil also has a BSc. (Hons.) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Edinburgh University and has a MSc. in Finance at London Business School.

Anil is also a Fellow of the chartered institute for IT (BCS) and a founding chairman of BCS Entrepreneurs Specialist Group and an advisory board member/investor in Seedcamp

Recent Milestones

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  Anil Hansjee invested in HybridCluster. (5/6/13)
  Posted 5/7/13 at 3:07am via finsmes.com
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  Anil Hansjee invested in Brainbow. (4/3/13)
  Posted 4/3/13 at 2:19am via pocketgamer.biz
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  Anil Hansjee invested in GameAnalytics. (2/21/13)
  Posted 2/21/13 at 8:21pm via techcrunch.com
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  Anil Hansjee added a position as Advisor at HybridLogic. (10/1/12)
  Posted 11/16/12 at 2:41am
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  Anil Hansjee invested in SHOPA. (9/1/12)
  Posted 9/25/12 at 3:27am
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  Anil Hansjee invested in Silk. (8/1/12)
  Posted 8/1/12 at 5:45pm via techcrunch.com
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  Anil Hansjee added a position as Chair BCS Entrepreneurs at BCS. (7/1/12)
  Posted 10/22/11 at 12:15pm
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  Anil Hansjee invested in itravel. (7/1/12)
  Posted 11/16/12 at 2:48am
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  Anil Hansjee added a position as Advisor at Shutl. (3/1/12)
  Posted 4/15/12 at 8:49am
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  Anil Hansjee invested in Fantasy Shopper. (1/23/12)
  Posted 1/23/12 at 7:05am via techcrunch.com
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  Anil Hansjee invested in Grand Cru. (1/1/12)
  Posted 3/20/12 at 4:48am via venturebeat.com
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  Anil Hansjee invested in Digital Vega. (1/1/12)
  Posted 11/16/12 at 2:53am
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  Anil Hansjee added a position as Board non exec at Zattikka. (1/1/12)
  Posted 2/26/12 at 5:18pm
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  Anil Hansjee added a position as Advisor at BookingBug. (12/1/11)
  Posted 2/26/12 at 5:18pm
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  Anil Hansjee added a position as Board non exec at CultureLabel. (9/1/11)
  Posted 4/15/12 at 8:48am
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  Anil Hansjee added a position as Advisor at Creandum. (8/12/11)
  Posted 9/25/11 at 5:52am

Investments

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1. HybridCluster Raises $1M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
2. Backed by the best, Brainbow raises $1.2 million seed round to turn knowledge into games (pocketgamer.biz) [edit]
3. Game Analytics Opens To The Game Developing Masses, Raises $2.5M From Sunstone Capital, CrunchFund, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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5. Content Crunching App Silk Raises $1.6 Million Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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7. Fantasy Shopper Confirms Its Hottness With $3.3m First Money From Accel And NEA (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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9. Grand Cru raises $2M to build free-to-play Supernauts superhero game (venturebeat.com) [edit]
10. BookingBug Secures $350,000 Angel Round To Scale Up (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Zattikka Raises $5.5m For Its Social Games (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Capital Report Index [edit]