Foundation names early Twitter exec as partner
- Cromwell Schubarth
- Senior Technology Reporter- Silicon Valley Business Journal
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Foundation Capital has named former Twitter product
manager Anamitra Banerji
as a partner at the firm.
Banerji has been an
Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Menlo Park firm for the past year, consulting
on investments. He also worked on the launch of Widescope, an early-stage
research project at Stanford University that is focused on using
crowd-sourcing to tackle federal and state budget deficit reduction.
At Foundation, Banerji will focus on startups in the communications,
commerce, mobile and marketing technology sectors. These are areas he
concentrated on as EIR.Banerji was employee No. 30 at Twitter when he joined the company in March 2009. As its first product manager he built out the micro-blogging network's advertising team and incubated from scratch all three of its products - promoted tweets, promoted trends and promoted accounts.
Before joining Twitter, Banerji co-founded an online health company in India and served in roles at Overture, both before and after it was acquired by Yahoo.
Cromwell Schubarth is the Senior Technology Reporter at the Business Journal. His phone number is 408.299.1823.
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