Canvas Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Portola Valley, United States

Total investments

105

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

53

Rounds per year

9.55

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Canvas Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Portola Valley.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Canvas Ventures, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Y Combinator, Oakhouse Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Y Combinator, SVB Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oakhouse Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Benhamou Global Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Analytics, Machine Learning. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Branch, Luminar, Vida Health. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by Gary Little, Rebecca Lynn. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

This Canvas Ventures works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Canvas Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 39 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataHealthcareFintechEcommerce Show 1 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
5M — 20M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 350000000
Fund raised date
2021-03-30

Analytics

Total investments
105
Lead investments
16
Exits
7
Rounds per year
9.55
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Software (35)
  • SaaS (28)
  • Analytics (19)
  • Information Technology (16)
  • Internet (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (95)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • China (1)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
209M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.40
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Sema4.ai 29 Jan 2024 Software, Web Development Early Stage Venture 30M
smartrr 18 Jan 2023 Information Technology Early Stage Venture 10M United States, New York, New York

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