Press

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Location

Obvious Ventures is located two blocks from The Embarcadero in San Francisco, on the northwest corner of Sydney Walton Park. If you see the red brick building where Pacific Avenue runs into Front Street, you're in the right place.

190 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94111

Anku Madan

Principal

Anku brings to Obvious a technical mindset and deep tech investing experience, and a passion for accelerating business-first solutions to solve climate change.

Before joining Obvious, Anku was an investor at Hitachi’s venture capital arm, Hitachi Ventures, where he focused on investing and supporting early-stage companies in areas such as carbon dioxide removal, nuclear fusion, biomanufacturing, and robotics. Prior to Hitachi Ventures, Anku co-founded Undercover Colors, a world-positive company focused on ending drug-facilitated sexual assault, and worked at Propel(x) and Plug and Play Ventures.

Anku grew up in North Carolina and holds a B.S. from North Carolina State University. He also made a (misguided) attempt at a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University. He enjoys geeking out about coffee brew methods, vintage (and modern) sci-fi, and tennis, snowboarding, and cycling.