Raj Anand is a Brighton-based web entrepreneur. Raj Anand is one of eighteen Young Entrepreneurs in Europe profiled by BusinessWeek

BusinessWeek

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 in 2007. He is also the ambassador for Enterprise UK campaign. Raj was the founder and operations director at social network service

Social network service

A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user , his/her social...

 provider Kwiqq and author of Social Media's Impact on Recruitment and HR. He also writes personal blogs Raj Anand

Personal life

Raj 'Rajeshwar Singh Anand' was born in Kuwait and grew mainly in India and Kuwait.

Early life and now

He has a bachelors degree in computer system engineering and Master of Research

Master of Research

In the UK and Ireland, the Master of Research degree is an advanced postgraduate degree available in a range of academic disciplines. Although a relatively new degree, the MRes is becoming increasingly popular with a number of the Russell Group Universities such as Imperial College London,...

 in Computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 and Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

 from University of Sussex

University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....

. Raj was one of six entrepreneurs chosen by the panel and won Government funding to take a short Master of Business Administration

Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...

 course at Cranfield University

Cranfield University

Cranfield University is a British postgraduate university based on two campuses, with a research-oriented focus. The main campus is at Cranfield, Bedfordshire and the second is the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom based at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. The main campus is unique in the United...

. Things snowballed quickly when Raj found a Brighton-based business angel, David Hill, prepared to invest into setting up a business. Raj built Kwiqq at the age of 23, building majority of the software himself. Anand is a major supporter of entrepreneurship/young entrepreneur speaking at British Library

British Library

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, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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, MakeYourMark campaigns etc. Raj now works as a consultant developing creative use of Social network

Social network

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...

/media and is involved in developing strategies to innovate new social tools at Kwiqq.

Kwiqq's parent business, Anderstand Ltd was closed in September 2009. Kwiqq's final blog post gave details of why the company had failed.

Raj is also the creator of SUE, Sussex University Entrepreneurs, through which he is trying to support and promote entrepreneurship.