About Anay
Anay is a fintech and climate tech operator with 20+ years of experience building companies across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He was the 10th employee at Remitly (Nasdaq: RELY), where he led product, international expansion, and growth on the way to an IPO in 2021. More recently, as SVP of Global Business at Tala, Anay oversaw a ~$80M P&L and a 250+ person team while helping raise over $200M as a member of the executive team.
Anay has lived and worked in 15+ emerging markets, including in India as an early employee at d.light, a global off-grid solar company. He brings this lived experience—and the urgency it instilled—to the climate crisis.
Anay serves on the boards of The Sunrise Project, a global climate justice NGO, and the California Environmental Voters Education Fund. He holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Wesleyan University. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children, and is a proud 'climate papa.'
Investment Philosophy
Anay brings an operator's lens to investing, shaped by decades of building and scaling unit-economic positive businesses. He looks for founders who combine deep market understanding with customer intuition and strong business fundamentals.
Anay provides hands-on support in go-to-market strategy, helping founders find product-market fit and scale what works. He also loves helping iterate on product strategy, assembling high-performing teams, navigating complex regulatory environments, fundraising, and storytelling.
Anay carries deep empathy for the founder journey—the obsession required at the early stages, the non-linear path, and the certain irrationality it takes to build a team and a business that can grow from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue.