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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
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Free Harley
True, I do feel this but maybe this is my midwit, outside perspective
SF feels like a templated contrarian view of the world, but its all the same version of contrarian and not that contrarian
It is beautiful though
