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Canaan
Venture capital firm · Founded 1987 · Active in 2026
Canaan is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1987. The page below shows 39 Power Law outcomes from Canaan's portfolio — 32 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · Other B2B Software · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · India · Germany. Canaan ranks #103 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Canaan’s biggest exits.
Canaan portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Canaan’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Canaan’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 5 companies where Canaan is a named shareholder, worth about $794M in estimated equity value.
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1
ContentSquare
5.5%
$5.6B
$308M
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2
Snyk
3%
$7.4B
$222M
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3
Dragos
8%
$1.7B
$136M
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4
MindTickle
9%
$1.2B
$108M
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5
Field AI
1%
$2.0B
$20M
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 →
The 39 Canaan Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA34
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India3
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Germany1
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France1
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Biotech & Life Sciences7
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Other B2B Software6
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Marketing5
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Fintech5
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Transportation4
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eCommerce & Marketplaces3
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Health Tech & Medtech2
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Cybersecurity2
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Robotics2
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Space2
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Other1
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Series B+18
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Series A13
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Seed5
Canaan's 39 Power Law outcomes.
How does Canaan stack up?
Canaan in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Canaan's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
82 founders across the 39 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Apple are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Canaan.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Canaan
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Canaan on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Canaan
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Canaan — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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