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Canaan
San Francisco, United States
Early-stage investments in visionary entrepreneurs across consumer technology, enterprise software, fintech, frontier technologies, and life sciences.
Portfolio
27+
Employees
100+
Founded
1987
AUM
≈ $6.8B
Investment focus
Stages
No stages listed
Industries
No industries listedGeographic scope
United States
Fund details
Funds
Canaan XIII
Vintage 2023 • $650.0M
Canaan XIII Breakaway
Vintage 2023 • $200.0M
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Canaan
Early-stage investments in visionary entrepreneurs across consumer technology, enterprise software, fintech, frontier technologies, and life sciences.
Portfolio
27+
Employees
100+
Founded
1987
AUM
≈ $6.8B
Funds
Canaan XIII · Vintage 2023 • $650.0M
Canaan XIII Breakaway · Vintage 2023 • $200.0M
Stages
No stages listed
Industries
No industries listedGeographic scope
United States
Sources
Showing 24 of 27 matched portfolio companies
Aceiss integrates with existing application and security infrastructures to provide real-time visibility into user access and activity across technology stacks. This enables organizations to identify unauthorized access and anomalous behavior, thereby reducing their attack surface and improving compliance monitoring.
Funding: $5.8M
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners
Funding: $5.8M
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Actio Biosciences develops targeted therapies for rare diseases by utilizing genetic insights to identify specific drug targets linked to single-gene disorders. This approach enhances understanding of disease mechanisms, enabling potential therapeutic applications for more common diseases with shared biological pathways.
Funding: $63.0M
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Canaan PartnersDroia Ventures
Canaan PartnersDroia Ventures
Funding: $63.0M
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Provides an AI-driven identity verification platform that authenticates users and detects fraud through real-time risk analysis, biometric checks, and global data sources. It streamlines customer onboarding, reduces financial crime, and ensures compliance with regulations like KYC and AML by automating identity checks and ongoing monitoring.
Funding: $9.0M
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Funding: $9.0M
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Cashmere provides an intelligence platform that transforms fractured client data into actionable insights for financial institutions. The platform uses data normalization, universal ID creation, and AI-powered enrichment to build complete, multi-dimensional profiles of individuals and entities. This synthesized intelligence supports solutions like cross-sell intelligence, audience segmentation, and wealth strategy generation.
Funding: $8.2M
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Funding: $8.2M
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CatalYm is developing a monoclonal antibody, visugromab, that neutralizes GDF-15 to reverse immune resistance mechanisms in solid tumors, thereby enhancing anti-tumor immune responses. This approach aims to improve treatment outcomes for cancer patients who are non-responsive to existing therapies, addressing a significant gap in current immunotherapy effectiveness.
Funding: $271.1M
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Bioqube VenturesCanaan Partners
Bioqube VenturesCanaan Partners
Funding: $271.1M
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Cynomis offers an AI-powered, automated vCISO platform that enables managed security service providers and consulting firms to deliver scalable virtual Chief Information Security Officer services without increasing their resource demands. The platform automates risk and compliance assessments, generates tailored security policies, and creates actionable remediation plans, significantly reducing the time and effort required for cybersecurity management.
Funding: $23.0M
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners
Funding: $23.0M
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Diligent Robotics develops Moxi, a hospital service robot equipped with artificial intelligence for mobile manipulation and social interaction, designed to assist clinical staff by autonomously fetching medications and supplies. This technology reduces the time healthcare workers spend on logistical tasks, allowing them to focus more on direct patient care, thereby improving patient satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Funding: $90.3M
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners
Funding: $90.3M
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Earnipay provides a digital payroll platform that integrates with existing payroll systems, allowing employees to access a portion of their earned wages on-demand while offering financial education and personal finance management tools. This solution addresses the challenge of delayed salary disbursement, enhancing employee financial well-being and improving overall financial health for businesses.
Funding: $4.3M
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners
Funding: $4.3M
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Enterpret is a customer intelligence platform that unifies feedback from all sources into a single view for analysis. It uses AI and adaptive taxonomy to automatically classify unstructured customer data into actionable business themes. The platform enables teams to visualize insights, query feedback via natural language, and automate actions to close the loop with customers.
Funding: $25.1M
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners
Funding: $25.1M
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The startup offers a blockchain technology platform that enables game developers to integrate features like token wallets, non-fungible token minting, and payment processing into their game economies. This platform enhances monetization opportunities and player engagement by providing a seamless way to manage digital assets within games.
Funding: $1.2B
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Funding: $1.2B
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Hermeus builds reusable, unmanned high‑Mach and hypersonic aircraft for the U.S. Department of Defense, using its Chimera combined‑cycle engine that transitions from turbine to ramjet without rockets. The platform offers rapid, cost‑effective development and autonomous operation, providing a testbed for high‑speed flight regimes and operational hypersonic missions.
Funding: $490.0M
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Funding: $490.0M
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HeyMilo deploys AI-powered voice agents to conduct interactive, two-way interviews, allowing recruiters to evaluate candidates at scale. This technology significantly reduces the time to hire by automating initial screenings and providing real-time insights into candidate fit, saving recruiters an average of four hours per day.
Funding: $150.0K
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners
Funding: $150.0K
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Homeis offers a software platform designed to create a supportive online community for immigrants, facilitating connections and resource sharing. The platform addresses the challenges of social integration and access to information by providing tailored tools and services that enhance the immigrant experience.
Funding: $12.0M
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Canaan PartnersSpark Capital
Canaan PartnersSpark Capital
Funding: $12.0M
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Hyalex Orthopaedics is developing HYALEX® Cartilage, a biomimetic polymer designed to replicate the structure and function of native cartilage for use in joint surgeries. This technology addresses the issue of cartilage damage in patients who currently have limited treatment options, aiming to restore joint surfaces effectively during surgical procedures.
Funding: $47.9M
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners
Funding: $47.9M
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Jina AI provides a search foundation for developers building multimodal AI applications. Their platform offers APIs for advanced web content extraction, conversion to structured formats like JSON and Markdown, and integration with LLMs. This enables robust data ingestion and processing pipelines for complex search and reasoning tasks.
Funding: $37.4M
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners
Funding: $37.4M
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Join Digital offers Graphite AI, an agentic, AI‑native platform that unifies wired and wireless access, secure SD‑WAN, and SASE functions on an open‑standard, hardware‑agnostic architecture. By ingesting contextual telemetry across the network fabric, it predicts and automatically resolves performance and security issues, delivering self‑healing connectivity, zero‑trust controls, and a single pane of glass for enterprise networks.
Funding: $18.6M
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Funding: $18.6M
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Mosey provides a centralized platform for managing state compliance across all 50 states, automating tasks such as payroll registration, tax compliance, and Secretary of State filings. By consolidating over 1,000 compliance requirements into a single interface, Mosey helps businesses minimize manual work and avoid costly penalties associated with non-compliance.
Funding: $20.1M
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners
Funding: $20.1M
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Nagish provides a mobile application that uses AI for real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech phone call captioning. This service allows users to communicate via text or voice during calls, offering an alternative to traditional relay services. The platform prioritizes user privacy by keeping transcripts locally saved and avoids the use of human interpreters.
Plentina offers a mobile application that provides an alternative credit scoring system, enabling users to qualify for instant store credit to purchase essential goods. The platform facilitates repayments through electronic wallets or over-the-counter transactions, addressing the challenge of limited access to traditional credit for consumers in the Philippines.
Repool offers a proprietary fund-in-a-box platform that enables fund managers to launch and administer hedge funds efficiently, covering entity formation, compliance, and ongoing operations. By streamlining the fund launch process to just weeks, Repool addresses the lengthy and complex setup traditionally associated with starting a hedge fund.
Funding: $3.7M
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Funding: $3.7M
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Develops bispecific therapeutic antibodies that engage immune cells to target and eliminate solid tumors, particularly those resistant to immune checkpoint inhibitors. By optimizing the potencies of immune-engaging arms and improving tumor localization, these antibodies aim to provide effective treatment with reduced side effects, addressing critical gaps in cancer immunotherapy.
Funding: $67.0M
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Canaan PartnersRed Tree Venture Capital
Canaan PartnersRed Tree Venture Capital
Funding: $67.0M
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The startup offers a workforce security automation platform that features a real-time guidance system and a low-code playbook catalog for customizing and automating security workflows. This technology reduces friction between security teams and business lines, enabling organizations to enhance their security posture and make informed decisions in response to security events.
Funding: $40.0M
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners
Funding: $40.0M
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Synthekine is developing selective cytokine therapies using cytokine partial agonists, orthogonal cytokine and cell therapies, and surrogate cytokine agonists to enhance treatment efficacy for cancer and autoimmune diseases. The company addresses the limitations of current cytokine therapeutics by engineering solutions that minimize pleiotropy and improve therapeutic specificity.
Funding: $289.5M
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The Column Group
The Column Group
Funding: $289.5M
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TAG is a financial app that provides digital wallets and payment services, enabling users to manage their transactions securely and efficiently. The platform addresses the need for streamlined payment solutions in a digital economy, allowing users to make instant payments and store funds in a single, accessible location.
Funding: $16.7M
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Canaan PartnersLiberty City Ventures
Canaan PartnersLiberty City Ventures
Funding: $16.7M
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