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Anant Misra

Critic · DISC type C
Cofounder & CEO at AI Startup (Stealth)
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Anant is a tech entrepreneur and company-builder with a background from IIT Kanpur and Stanford Universitys AI program. As a serial co-founder (ArmorCode, AI Startup), he has held CTO and CEO roles, leading engineering teams and building scalable SaaS products. Colleagues describe him as being full of energy, passionate, and result-oriented.

Outside of his ventures, Anant is an active participant in the cybersecurity community, including OWASP and the PurpleBook CISO community. He is an outspoken supporter of colleagues and respected leaders in his network. He also shows a deep appreciation for creative minds in other fields, such as advertising.

Unique fact: He was such a big fan of advertising legend Piyush Pandey that he begged a colleague to take him along to a meeting just for the chance to meet him.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Cofounder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Anant shows up

Negotiator
Information Seeker
ROI Driven

They prefer to do logical analysis and value evidence over emotions. Unless the value is proven by data, they are unlikely to value fancy features. It is very likely that they will negotiate pricing or other important terms.

Priorities

Topics Anant cares about

Agentic AI Systems
He is currently building his new stealth startup to create the "next wave of agentic systems" that will redefine how software is built, and is actively hiring talent for this mission.
Application Security
Co-founded ArmorCode, an application security platform, and actively engages with the OWASP and PurpleBook CISO communities, demonstrating a deep interest in the cybersecurity space.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Cofounder & CEO
AI Startup (Stealth)
7-2020 - 6-2023
Co-Founder & CTO
ArmorCode Inc.
8-2015 - 7-2020
CTO
FabHotels.com
2-2013 - 2-2015
SVP, Engineering, 99 Acres
Info Edge India Ltd
8-2007 - 1-2013
VP, Engineering - Brijj.com
Info Edge India Ltd
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
1995 - 1999
B Tech
IIT Kanpur
2020 - 2020
Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning
Stanford University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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