Why did you decide to found CB Insights?

Anand Sanwal (CEO & Co-Founder and Former VP, American Express)


Anand Sanwal meets with Vaishali Jan, SarderTV correspondent, to talk about his company CB Insights, a market intelligence company providing information on the private sector, and the reasons behind its creation. Sanwal, formerly a VP at American Express with the Innovation Fund, talks about the issues he found with aggregate data on private companies and why he decided to start a company to offer a better product.

Anand Sanwal

CEO & Co-Founder and Former VP, American Express Mr. Anand Sanwal is CEO and Co-Founder at CB Insights, a venture capital and angel investment database that provides daily real-time information. He has also served American Express as Vice President of Investment Optimization & Strategic Business Analysis. Prior to that he has worked in many other countries for companies including Kozmo.com, Atlas Industrial Group and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (Capital Markets Associate).

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Anand Sanwal

CEO & Co-Founder and Former VP, American Express

Mr. Anand Sanwal is CEO and Co-Founder at CB Insights, a venture capital and angel investment database that provides daily real-time information. He has also served American Express as Vice President of Investment Optimization & Strategic Business Analysis. Prior to that he has worked in many other countries for companies including Kozmo.com, Atlas Industrial Group and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (Capital Markets Associate).

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Vaishali Jain

Vaishali Jain

Sarder TV Anchor & Former Bloomberg TV Journalist

Vaishali has been working in the media industry & Journalism for more than 14 years. She had her own CEO talk show on Bloomberg TV India called Biz Lounge, a show that she anchored and produced. Biz Lounge explored the business aspects of each company, as well as the company's leadership, corporate culture, as well as each leader's personal side including how he/she spent their free time.

Prior to that, she worked as a Management Consultant in the finance industry in New York City. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Management with a concentration in Finance and her Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology.

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