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
- Not stated
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 305 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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