Rajan Anandan brings an unusual combination of deep technical training from MIT and Stanford with hands-on operating experience as the former head of Google India, plus over 80 personal angel investments that give him distinctive early-stage pattern recognition. He's become one of India's most vocal champions of deep tech startups and explicitly focuses on backing what he calls missionaries rather than mercenaries—founders on long-term missions rather than those primarily motivated by financial outcomes. Rajan Anandan brings an unusual combination of deep technical training from MIT and Stanford with hands-on operating experience as the former head of Google India, plus over 80 personal angel investments that give him distinctive early-stage pattern recognition. He's become one of India's most vocal champions of deep tech startups and explicitly focuses on backing what he calls missionaries rather than mercenaries—founders on long-term missions rather than those primarily motivated by financial outcomes.