Canaan Partners
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Canaan Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and healthcare companies, from early-stage to growth. They have a long history of backing founders across sectors like biopharma, deep tech, cybersecurity, and AI.
Canaan Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in United States. It invests directly in companies, in biopharma, healthcare, deep tech and cybersecurity.
“We back founders who make the impossible inevitable”
— Canaan Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Unknown
- Headquarters
- United States
- Sectors
- biopharma, healthcare, deep tech, cybersecurity, AI, consumer, fintech, enterprise/cloud
Team, as Canaan Partners publishes it
- Brendan Dickinson General Partner
- Brent Ahrens General Partner
- Colleen Cuffaro General Partner
- Deepak Kamra General Partner
- Felipe Ossio General Partner
- Hrach Simonian General Partner
- John Balen General Partner
- Joydeep Bhattacharyya General Partner
- Julie Grant General Partner
- Kumar Sreekanti General Partner
- Laura Chau General Partner
- Maha Ibrahim General Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on canaan.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 305 co-investors found.
- RA Capital Management 6 shared companies: arvinas.com, juno.finance, orchard.com, synthekine.com…
- G Squared Equity Management LP 3 shared companies: snyk.io, instacart.com, turo.com
- Glynn Capital Management, LLC 3 shared companies: snyk.io, bird.co, apartmentlist.com
- Multiplier Capital, LLC 3 shared companies: leanplum.com, joor.com, komprise.com
- Greycroft 3 shared companies: bird.co, frame.ai, cuyana.com
- Union Square Ventures 3 shared companies: helium.com, circleup.com, lendingclub.com
- Manhattan Venture Partners 3 shared companies: instacart.com, capellaspace.com, turo.com
- Clocktower Technology Ventures 3 shared companies: circleup.com, cayena.com, embroker.com
- Contour Venture Partners 3 shared companies: rylo.com, ondeck.com, shopkeep.com
- Frazier Life Sciences Management, LP 3 shared companies: amicusrx.com, chimerix.com, orapharma.com
and 295 more — the graph.
Limited partners that disclose a commitment
From the LP's own published fund list — the LP is the source, not the manager.
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → Canaan Gold Coast L.P. · vintage 2023 · $235,000,000 committed · source
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → Canaan XIII Healthcare Fund L.P. · vintage 2024 · $37,083,465 committed · source
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → Canaan XIII L.P. · vintage 2024 · $205,000,000 committed · source
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Canaan Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.canaan.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description
- https://www.canaan.com/companiespeople
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Record 1014 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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