Anisha Gupta
"In my role at First Round, I use my GTM and operations background to help founders achieve their growth goals and learn faster. I first discovered my passion for supporting founders serving as fractional ops leader for over a dozen early-stage startups. After my own founder journey and experiencing how isolating the path to product-market fit can be, I knew I wanted to get back to being a force multiplier for founders."
The magic happens when I can help a founder get those first meaningful customer conversations that unlock everything that follows. When they tell me that an intro I facilitated uncovered a key product insight or converted into one of their earliest customers, that’s when I know we’re moving the needle.
Anisha helps First Round founders with go-to-market strategy and pipeline generation. She also leads strategic and operational initiatives for the internal Founder Success team.
Prior to joining First Round, she co-founded Bluebird, a B2B SaaS climate-tech platform acquired in 2023. Earlier, she was the first hire at a boutique consulting firm working with early-stage consumer brands including Mirror, a First Round-backed company. She holds degrees from University of Michigan (BSE, Chemical Engineering) and Columbia University (MS, Sustainability Management).