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Canaan
Venture Capital · Founded 1987 · Menlo Park, United States
Canaan’s biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Canaan still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Where a cap table names Canaan directly, the stake and its estimated value are shown too.
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1
Snyk
3%
$7.4B
$222M
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2
ContentSquare
5.5%
$5.6B
$308M
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3
Forte
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$2.9B
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Paxos
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$2.4B
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5
Field AI
1%
$2.0B
$20M
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6
Papa
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$1.4B
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7
MindTickle
9%
$1.2B
$108M
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8
Tomorrow.io
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$1.0B
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9
Hermeus
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$1.0B
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10
Fireflies.ai
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$1.0B
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11
WorkMotion
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$160M
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Estimated value = Canaan’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Canaan’s biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Canaan’s transaction record.
Where Canaan’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 402 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA378
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Israel16
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UK12
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India10
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Canada5
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Brazil4
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Germany3
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Nigeria3
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Belgium2
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Cuba2
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Switzerland2
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Australia1
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Health112
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Enterprise Software71
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Fintech56
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Media40
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Marketing39
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Telecom20
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Security19
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Transportation19
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Real Estate16
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Gaming15
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Fashion13
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Food10
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Series A172
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Series B+138
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Seed92
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Breakout Stage213
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Late Growth117
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Early Growth107
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Mature12
Inside Canaan’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 402 tracked.
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SpWhere Canaan’s portfolio founders come from.
133 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United States99
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United Kingdom10
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Canada6
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Belgium4
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Israel4
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India2
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Singapore2
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Argentina1
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France1
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Harvard Business School5
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
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Stanford University5
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University of Toronto5
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Cornell University4
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
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University of California, Berkeley4
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev3
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Columbia University3
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Georgia Institute of Technology2
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Apple4
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Generation Orbit4
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McKinsey & Company4
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IBM3
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NASA3
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PubMatic3
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PwC3
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Accenture2
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Airtime2
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Alphabet | Google2
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Canaan.
