Canaan VII

Canaan VII is an early-stage venture capital fund managed by Canaan Partners, a firm founded in 1987 and based in San Francisco, California. Canaan Partners specializes in investing in innovative entrepreneurs, focusing primarily on the technology and healthcare sectors. The fund emphasizes investments in software and technology, media, and telecommunications. Over its 30 years of operation, Canaan has successfully managed over $5 billion in assets and completed more than 190 exits, demonstrating a strong track record in nurturing and scaling companies. With a team experienced in technology, infrastructure, communications, and life sciences, Canaan is committed to supporting promising ventures across a range of industries, ensuring it targets high-potential opportunities in the United States.

Brent Ahrens

General Partner

Brenton K. Ahrens

General Partner - West Coast

Nandu Anilal

Vice President

John Balen

Partner - West Coast

Stephen Bloch

General Partner - East Coast

Richard Boyle

General Partner - West Coast

Laura Chau

Partner

Brendan Dickinson

General Partner

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka

Partner

Julie Papanek Grant

General Partner

Stephen Green

Venture Partner

Wende Hutton

General Partner

Maha Ibrahim

General Partner - West Coast

Deepak Kamra

General Partner - West Coast

Nina Kjellson

General Partner - West Coast

Mark Mangiola

Venture Partner

Jared Newman

Vice President

Julie Papanek

Partner

Guy Russo

General Partner - East Coast

Timothy Shannon

General Partner

Hrach Simonian

General Partner - West Coast

Dana Warren

Venture Partner, East Coast

Bob Williams

Venture Partner - West Coast

Eric Young

Partner and Co-Founder

Past deals in TMT

MindTickle

Series E in 2021
MindTickle Interactive Media Pvt Ltd. is a provider of a sales readiness and social learning platform designed to enhance the effectiveness of customer-facing teams across various industries. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Pune, India, with an additional office in San Francisco, California, MindTickle's platform enables organizations to transform existing online content into interactive learning experiences. It utilizes gamification techniques, such as points and leaderboards, to boost learner engagement and motivation. The platform supports onboarding, product training, coaching, and ongoing readiness, allowing companies to assess and certify the skills of their sales representatives. By offering features like automated training paths, adaptive learning, and virtual coaching tools, MindTickle helps organizations track progress and improve sales performance, leading to larger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles.

MindTickle

Series D in 2020
MindTickle Interactive Media Pvt Ltd. is a provider of a sales readiness and social learning platform designed to enhance the effectiveness of customer-facing teams across various industries. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Pune, India, with an additional office in San Francisco, California, MindTickle's platform enables organizations to transform existing online content into interactive learning experiences. It utilizes gamification techniques, such as points and leaderboards, to boost learner engagement and motivation. The platform supports onboarding, product training, coaching, and ongoing readiness, allowing companies to assess and certify the skills of their sales representatives. By offering features like automated training paths, adaptive learning, and virtual coaching tools, MindTickle helps organizations track progress and improve sales performance, leading to larger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles.

MindTickle

Series C in 2019
MindTickle Interactive Media Pvt Ltd. is a provider of a sales readiness and social learning platform designed to enhance the effectiveness of customer-facing teams across various industries. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Pune, India, with an additional office in San Francisco, California, MindTickle's platform enables organizations to transform existing online content into interactive learning experiences. It utilizes gamification techniques, such as points and leaderboards, to boost learner engagement and motivation. The platform supports onboarding, product training, coaching, and ongoing readiness, allowing companies to assess and certify the skills of their sales representatives. By offering features like automated training paths, adaptive learning, and virtual coaching tools, MindTickle helps organizations track progress and improve sales performance, leading to larger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles.

MindTickle

Series B in 2017
MindTickle Interactive Media Pvt Ltd. is a provider of a sales readiness and social learning platform designed to enhance the effectiveness of customer-facing teams across various industries. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Pune, India, with an additional office in San Francisco, California, MindTickle's platform enables organizations to transform existing online content into interactive learning experiences. It utilizes gamification techniques, such as points and leaderboards, to boost learner engagement and motivation. The platform supports onboarding, product training, coaching, and ongoing readiness, allowing companies to assess and certify the skills of their sales representatives. By offering features like automated training paths, adaptive learning, and virtual coaching tools, MindTickle helps organizations track progress and improve sales performance, leading to larger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles.

Tizona Therapeutics

Series B in 2016
Tizona Therapeutics, Inc. is an immunotherapy company focused on developing treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases. Founded in 2014 and located in South San Francisco, California, the company is known for its innovative products, including an Anti-CCR4 antibody aimed at cancer treatment, as well as IL-35 antagonists and agonists that target immune response modulation. Tizona is actively collaborating with its scientific founders to enhance understanding of the role of regulatory T cells in tumor immunosuppression, which is crucial for developing effective therapies. By targeting specific cell types and biological mechanisms responsible for immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment, Tizona aims to provide patients with durable and complete remissions from their conditions.

Myteam.com

Series B in 2000
Myteam.com is the online center for amateur sports and is the world's first Internet site dedicated to serving the needs of the sports family and the entire amateur sports community - players, parents, coaches, league administrators and fans. Everyone who joins myteam.com receives a free secure, personal home page, where information is automatically updated from all his or her teams and leagues. Personal home pages stay with members season-to-season, sport-to-sport, year-to-year.
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