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What does Canaan invest in?
Canaan invests most often at Series A and Series B (50% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as B2b2c, Fin-tech and Paytech.
Canaan highlights
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31 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Series B: 50% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 55 rounds, median $6.0M
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53 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Canaan is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionaries with transformative ideas.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $500K – $20M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- B2b2cFin-techPaytech
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first610 appearances
- 2026
27 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- JanArbe$19MWith 3 others
- Jan
- 2025
35 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration18 named
BCBrendan Charles DickinsonManager of Canaan Partners Xii LLCiForm ADV
BKBrenton K. AhrensManager of Canaan Partners Vii LLCiForm ADV
DKDeepak KamraManager of Canaan Partners Vii LLCiForm ADV
EMEbony Myles-BerryDirectoriFiling they signed
GMGuy M. RussoManager of Canaan Partners Vii LLCiForm ADV
HSHrach SimonianManager of Canaan Partners X LLCiForm ADV
JPJohn PacificoChief Operating Officer and Chief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
JVJohn V. BalenManager of Canaan Partners Vii LLCiForm ADV
JBJoydeep BhattacharyyaManager of Canaan Partners Xi LLCiForm ADV
JPJulie Papanek GrantManager of Canaan Partners Xii LLCiForm ADV
MSMaha Saleh IbrahimVice PresidentiForm ADV
MCMark CookDirectoriFiling they signed
MCMatthew CrakesMr. Crakes is the managing member of Canaan Valley Capital GP LLC, the general partner of the Issuer, and Canaan Valley Capital Management LLC, the investment manageriFiling they signed
NSNina Sofia KjellsonManager of Canaan Partners X LLCiForm ADV
RBRichard BoyleManager of Canaan Partners Xi LLCiForm ADV
SBStephen BlochManager of Canaan Partners Vii LLCiForm ADV
TSTim ShannonManager of Canaan Partners X LLCiForm ADV
WEWende Ellen SawyerManager of Canaan Partners Vii LLCiForm ADV
We also hold 37 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$5.5Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
10+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Canaan Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 161180
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Canaan's funds
- Committed
- $242M
- Funds
- 2
- Vintages
- 2024
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)2 funds$242M
Fund Vintage Committed Canaan XIII 2024 $205M Canaan XIII Healthcare Fund 2024 $37M
What they claim to have backed
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed53 in all
Novira TherapeuticsBought by Johnson & JohnsonUndisclosedNov 2015
Spinifex PharmaceuticalsBought by Novartis$200MJun 2015
Cortina SystemsBought by INPHI$131MOct 2014
Civitas TherapeuticsBought by Acorda Therapeutics$525MSept 2014
ArtspaceBought by Phaidon PressUndisclosedAug 2014
Skybox ImagingBought by Google$500MJun 2014
Labrys BiologicsBought by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries$825MJun 2014
AtheroMedBought by Volcano Corporation$117MMay 2014
ACTIVE NetworkBought by Vista Equity PartnersUndisclosedNov 2013
Echopass CorporationBought by GenesysUndisclosedOct 2013
BlipBought by Maker StudiosUndisclosedAug 2013
Tremor VideoListed$75MJun 2013
Virsto SoftwareBought by VMwareUndisclosedFeb 2013
Acme PacketBought by Oracle Corporation$2.1BFeb 2013
XDN/3Crowd TechnologiesBought by FortinetUndisclosedDec 2012
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.