Anu Hariharan is the Founder & Managing Partner of Avra. She was most recently the co-founder and Managing
Director of Y Combinator’s Growth fund where she worked with several hundred growth stage founders. She led
YC’s growth investments in OpenAI, Brex, Faire, Gusto, Whatnot among others. Prior to YC, Anu was a partner at
Andreessen Horowitz where she worked with the management teams of Airbnb, Instacart, Udacity among others.
Prior to that she started her career as a senior software engineer at Qualcomm. Anu has an MS in electrical
engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from Wharton.