Canaan Partners

Canaan Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1987 and based in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Westport, Connecticut, Israel, and India. The firm specializes in investing in entrepreneurs with innovative ideas across various sectors, primarily focusing on technology and healthcare. Canaan manages over $5 billion in capital and has invested in more than 250 companies, achieving over 190 exits. Its investment strategy encompasses a range of sectors, including fintech, enterprise/cloud, digital health, biopharma, medical technology, and frontier tech, with funding capabilities from $1 million to $20 million. The firm is recognized for its experienced team of investment professionals who leverage their extensive backgrounds in technology, infrastructure, communications, and life sciences to support promising ventures at various stages of development.

Ahrens, Brent

General Partner

Nandu Anilal

Investor, Analyst

John Balen

General Partner

Stephen Bloch

General Partner

Laura Chau

Investor

Dickinson, Brendan

General Partner

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka

Partner

Wende Hutton

General Partner

Jared Newman

Investor, Analyst

Julie Papanek

Partner

Guy Russo

General Partner

Timothy Shannon

General Partner

Hrach Simonian

General Partner

Dana Warren

Venture Partner, East Coast

Eric Young

Partner and Co-Founder

Past deals in TMT

MindTickle

Series E in 2021
MindTickle offers a sales readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use MindTickle's award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching, and role-play with a data-driven approach, MindTickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging MindTickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles. MindTickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, California and Pune, India. Investors include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

MindTickle

Series D in 2020
MindTickle offers a sales readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use MindTickle's award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching, and role-play with a data-driven approach, MindTickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging MindTickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles. MindTickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, California and Pune, India. Investors include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

MindTickle

Series C in 2019
MindTickle offers a sales readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use MindTickle's award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching, and role-play with a data-driven approach, MindTickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging MindTickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles. MindTickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, California and Pune, India. Investors include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

MindTickle

Series B in 2017
MindTickle offers a sales readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use MindTickle's award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching, and role-play with a data-driven approach, MindTickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging MindTickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles. MindTickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, California and Pune, India. Investors include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

Tizona Therapeutics

Series B in 2016
The company is establishing collaborations with its scientific founders “to better understand whether regulatory T cells play a more prominent role in certain tumors,” he added. Although research suggests that Tregs cells play a more prominent role in creating immunosuppression in the microenvironment in some tumor types than others, “quite honestly, the data are lacking. One of the ways we’re going to differentiate the company is to understand that relationship better.

Myteam.com

Series B in 2000
Myteam.com serves as an online hub for the amateur sports community, catering to players, parents, coaches, league administrators, and fans. It is the first website dedicated to addressing the diverse needs of this community. Members receive a free, secure personal home page that consolidates and automatically updates information from all their associated teams and leagues. This feature allows users to maintain their home page across different seasons and sports, ensuring that they have a continuous and personalized connection to the amateur sports landscape. Additionally, Myteam.com facilitates direct communication among users and sports organizations, enhancing engagement within the community.
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