Anil Kamath
About
Anil Kamath is from Mountain View, California, United States. Anil is currently Board Member at BigCommerce, located in Austin, Texas, United States. Anil also works as Vice President Investment Committee at Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, a job Anil has held since Jan 2014. Another title Anil currently holds is Lead Mentor and Advisor at StartX. In Anil's previous role as a Fellow & VP Technology at Adobe, Anil worked in San Francisco Bay Area until Feb 2025. Prior to joining Adobe, Anil was a Founder, CTO, Board Member at Efficient Frontier and held the position of Founder, CTO, Board Member. Prior to that, Anil was a VP Technology at Shopzilla from Jan 2000 to Jan 2002. Anil started working as Founder & CEO at eBoodle in Jan 1998. From Jan 1995 to Jan 1998, Anil was VP International Equity at D.E.Shaw &Co. Prior to that, Anil was a MTS at Bell Laboratories from Jan 1989 to Jan 1991.
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Anil Kamath's current jobs
Serving on the Investment Committee of a leading network of Stanford alumni investors, supporting over 100 seed-stage technology startups. Notable investments include SoFi ($SOFI), Blue River (acquired by John Deere), Zum (EV school transportation), Teapot (acquired by Stripe), and CirroSecure (acquired by Palo Alto Networks).
Lead Advisor to 50+ companies in AI and enterprise software, providing strategic guidance on product and business applications of AI. Advisory board member for multiple StartX companies, conducting regular sessions to support founders in leveraging AI for growth and innovation.
Investments include Zum, Eightfold AI, Hypertrack, Tapistro, Tapjoy (acquired by Google), Teapot (acquired by Stripe), Intellus (acquired by Macmillan Learning), Metromile (acquired by Lemonade), and Acquia (acquired by Vista), among others.
Anil Kamath's past jobs
Led transformative AI/ML initiatives at Adobe, integrating Efficient Frontier into Marketing Cloud and developing data science-driven solutions that optimized customer acquisition, engagement, retention, and growth across both consumer and B2B businesses. These innovations became core Adobe Experience Cloud products, including media attribution, media mix modeling, optimized customer journeys, predictive customer insights, and automated content intelligence. More recently, spearheaded the Generative AI transformation for enterprise marketing, leading to the incubation and launch of Gen Studio for Performance Marketing.
Started Efficient Frontier with the goal of delivering the best return on advertising spend for advertisers using data-driven algorithms. First to apply techniques from wall street to the field of advertising. Built the first algorithmic SEM platform bringing portfolio optimization to online advertising, scaled company from 0-100M in revenues, $3Bn Spend Under Management, diversifying into social and display advertising. Successful exit to Adobe ($450M). Founding CEO till 2004 CTO and Board Member from 2004 - 2012.
Bizrate/Shopzilla One of the largest, fastest growing and most successful shopping search engines in the world.Successful acquisition for $569MM by EW Scripps (SSP) in 2005.
First Personal Shopping Assistant that combined comparison shopping, digital wallet and contextual offers through eBoodle browser bar. Acquired by Bizrate/Shopzilla in March 2000.
Algorithmic trading. Statistical arbitrage, program trading on multi-billion dollar portfolio of international equities trading as much as 5% of volume on London Stock Exchange.