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Canaan

117 employees

Canaan is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionaries with transformative ideas.

Investor insights

Countries invested in

united states8

Sectors invested in

Health Care133
Software125
Biotechnology106
Medical80
SaaS79
Enterprise Software48
Therapeutics47
E-Commerce46
Information Technology46
Medical Device41
Financial Services40
Artificial Intelligence40
Internet38
Analytics37
FinTech37
Manufacturing35
Machine Learning30
Marketplace30
Marketing29
Pharmaceutical27

Funding rounds participated in

$10M sweet spot round size

Most of their 682 investments are in rounds between $6.6M and $29M

Investor type

Venture Capital

Basic info

Industry

venture capital and private equity principals

Sectors

Biopharma Products & Platform
Fintech
Frontier Tech
Digital Health
Big Data /Cloud
Consumer
FinTech
Biopharma
SaaS Security
Enterprise SaaS
Venture Capital
Medtech & Tools

Date founded

1987

Investments made

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Diligent Robotics raised undisclosed on September 21, 2023

Investors: DNX Ventures and Canaan

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Atmosfy raised $12M on August 9, 2023

Investors: Village Global, Convivialité Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Industry Ventures, Progression Fund, Team Ignite Ventures, Palm Tree Crew Holdings and Canaan

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Savvy raised $22M on July 11, 2023

Investors: Cyberstarts, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cerca Partners and Canaan

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Tomorrow.io raised $87M on June 14, 2023

Investors: Seraphim Capital, Clearvision Ventures, Chemonics International, JetBlue Ventures, Activate Capital, Pitango Venture Capital, Square Peg and Canaan

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Trébol (YC W22) raised $3M on May 24, 2023

Investors: Soma Capital, Y Combinator, Better Tomorrow Ventures, PLIV and Canaan

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OncoResponse Inc. raised $14M on May 18, 2023

Investors: RiverVest Venture Partners, INTERVEST-Mortgage Investment Co., 3B Future Health Fund, Takeda UK Limited, ARCH Venture Partners, Bering Capital and Canaan

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Antiva Biosciences, Inc. / previously know as Hera Therapeutics raised $53M on April 27, 2023

Investors: GV, Lumira Ventures, Adjuvant Capital, Sofinnova Ventures, Russia technology fund, BioImpact Capital and Canaan

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Aer Therapeutics, Inc. raised $36M on April 13, 2023

Investors: OrbiMed Advisors and Canaan

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Kepler Communications Inc. raised $92M on April 13, 2023

Investors: IA Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Tribe Capital and Canaan

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Assis raised $5M on April 10, 2023

Investors: K50 Ventures, FJ Labs, Latitud, Costanoa Ventures, Norte Ventures, MAYA CAPITAL, 1616 Ventures and Canaan

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