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Canaan Partners

Founders Eric Young Harry T. Rein

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Total investments 770
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 393
Rounds per year 20.81
Lead investments 155
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.49
Exits 136
Key employees 18
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

Canaan Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1987. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The current fund was established by Eric Young, Harry T. Rein. The overall number of key employees were 18.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Enterprise Software. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Instacart, Lending Club, SuccessFactors The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Canaan Partners, startups are often financed by Lerer Hippeau, Intel Capital, Domain Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Polaris Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Silicon Valley Bank, Pelion Venture Partners, Battery Ventures.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Canaan Partners is 50-100 millions dollars. This Canaan Partners works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nocion Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$62M04 Mar 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

AgomAb Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$111M11 Oct 2023 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

Acesion Pharma

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$53M26 Sep 2023 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Actio Biosciences

Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Genetics
$55M12 Sep 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Atmosfy

Hospitality
Restaurants
Video
$12M09 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Savvy

$22M11 Jul 2023 -

Trébol

$3M24 May 2023 -

Kepler Communications

Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$92M13 Apr 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Assis

Information Technology
Internet
Software
$5M10 Apr 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
News
Bzaar bags $4M to enable US retailers to source home, lifestyle products from India

– Bzaar, a business-to-business cross-border marketplace, is connecting retailers with over 50 export-ready manufacturers in India.
– The U.S.-based company announced that it raised $4m in seed funding, led by Canaan Partners, and including angel investors Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal, PhonePe founders Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari, Addition founder Lee Fixel and Helion Ventures co-founder Ashish Gupta.
– Nishant Verman and Prasanth Nair co-founded Bzaar in 2020 and consider their company to be like a “fair without borders,” Verman put it.

Tropic picks up $25M to streamline software procurement experiences

– SaaS procurement platform Tropic raised $25m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Canaan Partners and joined by Founder Collective and Shine.
– It brings Tropic to a total funding of $27.1m.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its sales and marketing efforts.

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Total investments 770
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 20.81
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 155
Follow on index 0.49
Exits 136
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nocion Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$62M04 Mar 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

AgomAb Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$111M11 Oct 2023 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

Acesion Pharma

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$53M26 Sep 2023 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Actio Biosciences

Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Genetics
$55M12 Sep 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Atmosfy

Hospitality
Restaurants
Video
$12M09 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Savvy

$22M11 Jul 2023 -

Trébol

$3M24 May 2023 -

Kepler Communications

Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$92M13 Apr 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Assis

Information Technology
Internet
Software
$5M10 Apr 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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