Anand Chandrasekaran

Anand Chandrasekaran is a Co-founder and CTO of vue.ai and Mad Street Den. He holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras, PhD in Neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine, MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Neuromorphic Engineering at Stanford. His career includes Director of Platform Partnerships for Facebook Messenger (2016-2018), Chief Product Officer at Snapdeal (leading Indian e-commerce platform), Senior Director of Mobile and Search Products at Yahoo, and co-founder of Aeroprise (2001) and Crescendo (AI-first contact center). He is also the founder of Kwaish Ventures. Anand brings deep expertise in product leadership, AI, and neuroscience to Mad Street Den, helping build vue.ai into a leading retail AI platform serving major global retailers.

vue.ai is an AI orchestration platform for retail automation, launched in 2016 as the first AI brand from parent company Mad Street Den, which was co-founded in 2013 by Ashwini Asokan (CEO) and Anand Chandrasekaran (CTO). Ashwini holds a Bachelor's in Visual Communication (Madras University, 2002) and Master's in Interaction Design (Carnegie Mellon), with 9 years at Intel as Design Researcher leading mobile innovation in Silicon Valley. Anand holds B.Tech in Electrical Engineering (IIT Madras), PhD in Neuroscience (Baylor College of Medicine), MS in Electrical Engineering (Stanford), and Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Neuromorphic Engineering (Stanford). His career includes Director of Platform Partnerships at Facebook Messenger (2016-2018), CPO at Snapdeal, and Senior Director of Mobile/Search at Yahoo. vue.ai has raised $27.5M across 3 rounds: $17M Series B (Falcon Edge Capital, Sequoia India, Global Brain, 2019) and undisclosed Series B (FedEx, 2023). Other investors include Alpha Wave Global. The platform uses computer vision and data science for retail intelligence, merchandising, inventory management, e-commerce automation, and virtual styling. Clients include Macy's, Mercadolibre, and Tata.