Anjney Midha

Anjney Midha lived in India and Singapore before pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies at Stanford University. His early research involved bioinformatics and machine learning; he later left his graduate program and moved into venture capital.⁠[1][2]

In late 2013, Anjney Midha joined Kleiner Perkins. Before that, he had been involved with Dorm Room Fund at Stanford, supporting seed-stage founders in the Bay Area; after joining the firm, he worked on investments and on building data science infrastructure for startups, and launched Connect, an internal platform for founders.⁠[3]

In June 2015, KPCB Edge launched under Midha’s leadership, with a team that also included Ruby Lee on product and Roneil Rumburg on engineering. The seed investment program combined software, product, and engineering support with early-stage investing.⁠[3]

In 2017, Anjney Midha co-founded Ubiquity6 with his Stanford roommate Ankit Kumar, serving as CEO and CTO respectively, to explore shared multiplayer augmented reality experiences.⁠[4]

In March 2018, Midha announced on the company’s official blog that it had raised $10.5 million in funding led by Index VenturesIndex VenturesIndex Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in Geneva in 1996. It invests from seed through growth and operates across London, San Francisco and New York, supporting technology companies through a transatlantic network.Open the full entry. The product vision was to let phone users jointly create, view, and manipulate digital content in the same physical space, combining computer vision, spatial positioning, and 3D scene understanding.⁠[5]

In 2021, Discord acquired Ubiquity6, and Midha joined Discord as part of the deal; he later served as Vice President of Platform Ecosystem, building a dedicated developer platform team.⁠[1]

At Discord, he drove the partnership with MidjourneyMidjourneyMidjourney is a self-funded artificial intelligence research lab founded in San Francisco by David Holz, best known for its namesake text-to-image service, which opened to the public through Discord in 2022 and later expanded to the web, video models, and medical hardware. It has been sued by artists and by companies including Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery over copyright issues involving its training data and generated content.Open the full entry and helped support the growth of generative AI applications on the platform.⁠[2]

On July 25, 2023, Andreessen Horowitz announced that Midha was joining as a general partner to expand its AI investing. The announcement highlighted his experience in entrepreneurship, machine learning, and developer ecosystems.⁠[2]

He has also backed AI startup teams as an angel investor. Investments listed in his a16z profile include AnthropicAnthropicAnthropic is an artificial intelligence research and product company founded in 2021 that develops the Claude models, assistant, and tools such as Claude Code, and operates as a public benefit corporation. Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei are its co-founders, and its research covers model safety, interpretability, and steerability.Open the full entry, ElevenLabsElevenLabsElevenLabs is an artificial intelligence audio company founded in 2022 by Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski. Starting from voice generation, voice cloning, and dubbing tools, it has built ElevenCreative for creators, the enterprise conversational agent platform ElevenAgents, and the developer interface ElevenAPI, and also operates music generation and voice licensing businesses.Open the full entry, Luma AI, Infinitus AI, Mashgin, and Ideogram.⁠[1]

In an official episode released in May 2024, he and Discord co-founder Jason CitronJason CitronJason Citron is an entrepreneur who founded the social mobile gaming platform OpenFeint in 2008 and sold it to GREE in 2011; he then founded a game studio and co-founded the communication platform Discord with Stanislav Vishnevskiy, serving as its chief executive from inception until April 2025, when he became a board member and adviser to the new chief executive.Open the full entry discussed community-driven products, platform extensibility, and the evolution of developer ecosystems.⁠[6]

As of September 2026, Midha’s public roles include founder of AMP and visiting scientist in applied physics at Stanford University. AMP is structured as a public benefit corporation and proposes compute sharing among independent AI teams to improve infrastructure utilization while preserving each team’s research autonomy.⁠[7][8][9]

In spring 2026, he co-taught Stanford’s CS 153, “Frontier Systems,” with Michael Abbott. The course covers energy, chips, models, applications, safety, and deployment policy, with individual frontier technology projects as its hands-on component.⁠[10]

His current a16z profile lists his title as Venture Partner and lists his board seats at Black Forest Labs, Luma AI, Mistral AI, Sesame AI, LMArena, OpenRouterOpenRouterOpenRouter is an AI model marketplace and gateway launched in 2023. Its API and chat interface connect models and inference providers, with routing, observability, cost management and enterprise controls. Its co-founders include Alex Atallah, Louis Vichy and Chris Clark. Stripe announced an agreement to acquire OpenRouter in August 2026.Open the full entry, and Periodic LabsPeriodic LabsPeriodic Labs is a company applying artificial intelligence to scientific research, co-founded by Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk.Open the full entry.⁠[1]

AMP PBC: An AI infrastructure and compute collaboration company founded by Midha. Official website: https://www.amppublic.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[7][9]

Stanford University: The institution where he has studied, researched, and taught. Official website: https://www.stanford.edu/ (opens in a new window); Frontier Systems course website: https://cs153.stanford.edu/ (opens in a new window).⁠[8][10]

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z): The investment firm he joined in 2023. Official website: https://a16z.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

Discord: The platform company he worked for after it acquired Ubiquity6. Official website: https://discord.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[1]

Kleiner Perkins: The firm where he worked early on and helped build a seed investment program. Official website: https://www.kleinerperkins.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[3]

Ubiquity6: The company he co-founded with Ankit Kumar, later acquired by Discord. Official archived blog: https://medium.com/ubiquity6 (opens in a new window). X: Public account: https://x.com/AnjneyMidha (opens in a new window).⁠[5][7]