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Fahd Ananta
Experienced Product Lead and Investor
Fahd Ananta, Investor at Roach Capital
Fahd Ananta is an investor and the founder of Roach Capital, a Toronto-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage internet businesses.12 After founding and selling his own Canadian tech companies and working as a product lead at major firms like Shopify and Snap, Ananta launched Roach Capital in 2019.12
Key Facts about Fahd Ananta:
- Co-founded Toronto startups Chime (acquired by HubSpot) and Tab Payments (acquired by Velocity)24
- Spent over 5 years as a product lead at Shopify (2016-2020) and Snap (2020-2021)24
- Started angel investing in 2016, making early investments in companies like Ada which later became a unicorn2
- Launched Roach Capital in 2019 to invest his own money, later bringing on outside LPs including Tiger Global partners, Shopify execs, and others12
- Roach Capital's first fund closed at $6.4 million CAD in 2022 to invest in early-stage internet startups12
- Aims to provide portfolio companies with capital and product strategy guidance, while also putting them on the radar of larger VCs23
- Has invested over $1.5 million CAD across 15 companies so far through Roach Capital2
Ananta's LinkedIn profile (linkedin.com/in/fananta) shows his experience as an investor at Roach Capital since 2021, along with his prior roles as a product lead at Shopify and Snap.4 He has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto.4
Highlights
Once you decide to do something you have to execute at full speed
People sometimes go slow as a hedge but in fact that’s worse, because the faster you go, the faster you can learn whether the decision was correct
Would be remiss to not mention that it’s incredibly cool to learn about all the other community projects around this ecosystem
All on the same mission with differing approaches. Folks like Socratica, Calgary’s House 831, New Systems, 555 in Montreal, the one in Vancouver (forget the name), and so on
Gg y’all