Strategic Advisor, Mudita Venture Partners & Stanford d.school | Board Member | Ex‑Google & Warby Parker

Anjali Kumar works with entrepreneurs and C-level executives in all stages of business, focusing on early-stage tech, consumer products, and luxury fashion companies with a social conscience. She founded Slightly Reserved, an advisory firm providing legal counsel and business strategy for entrepreneurs, executives, talent, and brands. Anjali serves as Strategic Advisor to Mudita Venture Partners and sits on the Board of Governors for Brown University and as Advisor/Global Ambassador for Stanford d.school. As an angel investor across tech and consumer brands, she's a business partner in Masala y Maiz, the Mexico City restaurant that earned a Michelin star in 2025 and was featured on Netflix's Chef's Table for its innovative fusion of Indian, Mexican, and East African cuisines. She also advised the Oscar-nominated documentary To Kill a Tiger. Previously, Anjali held founding roles at Cheddar (Chief People Officer & General Counsel), Warby Parker (Head of Social Innovation & General Counsel), Acumen (General Counsel), and was Senior Counsel at Google, where she hosted the popular @Google Speaker Series. Her 2017 TED Talk based on her book "Stalking God" has been watched by 5 million people worldwide and translated into over twenty languages. She co-hosted "The Important Things" podcast with Bobbi Brown for iHeart Media in 2022. Anjali earned her BA in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University and JD from Boston University School of Law. She's an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and Fordham University, and serves on several boards including Honeycomb, Kroma, Every Mother Counts, Amplifier, and AmDoc/POV.