Anand Chowdhary
FounderFounder/CTO/CPO at FirstQuadrant
San Francisco Bay Area
FoundedFirstQuadrant Β· YC
About
Anand Chowdhary has held founding or product leadership roles at multiple companies including the AI sales platform FirstQuadrant, rent-to-own furniture marketplace Pabio, accessibility technology startup Oswald Labs, and fashion ecommerce company Melangebox. He currently serves as head of product and founding team member at Sycamore.
Anand Chowdhary @anandchowdhary
Vibe-coded SaaS replicas for PE diligence sound ridiculous, but the idea is useful. If a consultant can rebuild the happy path of your product in a week, your moat was probably not the CRUD screens. It was distribution, trust, workflows, data, support, contracts, and the ugly
Aug 2, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Anand Chowdhary @anandchowdhary
$5k for https://t.co/nk8m24u2kE (YC S21) should be at the top of the leaderboard https://t.co/ox2qnZxMfZ
Aug 2, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Anand Chowdhary @anandchowdhary
RFC 10008's QUERY method feels made for the agent era. A read-only tool call with filters, permissions, and evidence does not want to be a 3KB URL or a fake POST.
Aug 1, 2026
Founder/CTO/CPO at FirstQuadrantYC S21
Intro paths
Anand went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Anand can intro founders to FirstQuadrant's investors below.
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Co-founders at FirstQuadrant
Experience
- SycamoreHead of Product & Founding Teamcurrent2026 β presentPalo Alto, CA
- FirstQuadrantCo-founder, CTO, CPO (exited)2023 β 2025San Francisco, California, United States
- PabioCo-founder & CTO2020 β 2023Zurich, Switzerland
- Oswald LabsCo-founder & CEO2016 β 2020Enschede Area, Netherlands
- El NiΓ±o - Digital DevelopmentTechnology Consultant2017 β 2019Enschede Area, Netherlands
- IBMBachelor Project Collaborator2018Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- MelangeboxCo-founder & CTO2016 β 2017Gurgaon, Haryana
- Justice AddaTechnology Lead2015 β 2016New Delhi, India
- Government of DelhiInteraction Designer2016New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Unifiers Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd.Technology Consultant2014 β 2016New Delhi, India
- Class RebelsCo-founder & CEO2015 β 2016New Delhi, India
- Class RebelsCo-founder & Head of UX2014 β 2015New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Sixteeninches.comConsultant2015 β 2016New Delhi, India
- CyankartConsultant2014 β 2016New Delhi, India
- Global School of Media CraftingIntern2012New Delhi, India
Education
- Y CombinatorSummer Batch 2021 (YC S21)2021
- University of TwenteBachelor of Science, Creative Technology2017 β 2020
- Santa Clara UniversityMinor, Global Engineering Education Exchange2019
- University of TwenteHonors Program, Science2017 β 2019
- The Mother's International SchoolHigh School, Science
Skills & more
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Mobile ApplicationsSEOBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyElectronicsSketchMarketingProject ManagementSoftware DevelopmentSASSNode.jsVueLanguages Dutch Β· English Β· French Β· Hindi
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