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Canaan Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that primarily invests in visionary entrepreneurs building transformative companies within the technology and healthcare sectors. Their strategy involves a collaborative, hands-on approach, providing strategic guidance and support to their portfolio companies from seed to later-stage rounds.
Average disclosed round size is $51.6M (across 98 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
103
Fund Size
$7B
Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
3
Team
JL
Justin LaFayette
General Partner
NK
Nina Kjellson
General Partner
RB
Rich Boyle
General Partner
TS
Tim Shannon
General Partner
WH
Wende Hutton
General Partner
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
103 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| RRenoFi | Series B | $22M | Mar 2026 |
 Sumble | Series A | $38.5M | Oct 2025 |
 Field AI | Growth | $405M | Aug 2025 |
 Nivoda | Series B | $48.4M | Nov 2024 |
| SSafire Technology Group, Inc. | Series A | $8M | Sep 2024 |
 Cidara Therapeutics, Inc. | Series D | $240M | Apr 2024 |
 Lily AI | Series B | $20M | Mar 2024 |
 JOOR | Growth | $25M | Oct 2023 |
 Diligent Robotics | Series B | $25M | Sep 2023 |
 Atmosfy | Seed | $12M | Aug 2023 |
 Relievant Medsystems | Series C | $50M | Apr 2023 |
 Alkymi | Series A | $21M | Oct 2022 |
 Pin | Seed | $5.6M | Aug 2022 |
 Mosey | Series A | $18M | Aug 2022 |
 Lev | Series B | $70M | May 2022 |
 withco | Series B | $30M | Feb 2022 |
| withco | Seed | $4M | Feb 2022 |
 Mantra Health | Series A | $22M | Jan 2022 |
 Taptap Send | Series B | $65M | Dec 2021 |
 Apex.ai | Series B | $56.5M | Dec 2021 |
 Reibus | Series B | $75M | Nov 2021 |
 Jina.ai | Series A | $30M | Nov 2021 |
 Papa | Series D | $150M | Nov 2021 |
 Countable | Series A | $12M | Oct 2021 |
| AAppsmith | Series A | $8M | Oct 2021 |
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Top Co-Investors
Initialized Capital10 shared
Founders Fund8 shared
NFX8 shared
Coatue Management7 shared
Boldstart Ventures6 shared
BoxGroup6 shared
SoftBank Vision Fund6 shared
Accel6 shared
Tiger Global Management6 shared
Khosla Ventures5 shared
NEA (New Enterprise Associates)5 shared
Battery Ventures5 shared
GV (Google Ventures)5 shared
JLL Spark5 shared
Animo Ventures5 shared
Index Ventures4 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners4 shared
Trinity Ventures4 shared
Intel Capital3 shared
Industry Ventures3 shared
Last updated: 8 March 2026