Canaan Partners is a multi-billion dollar global venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 firm focusing on investments in early stage companies in the technology and healthcare sectors.

The firm's technology group focuses on digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise and cleantech. The healthcare group focuses on biopharmaceuticals, devices, and diagnostics.

Founded in 1987, the firm has offices in Menlo Park, California, USA

Menlo Park, California

Menlo Park, California is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Stanford to the south; Atherton, North Fair Oaks, and Redwood City...

; Westport, Connecticut, USA

Westport, Connecticut

-Neighborhoods:* Saugatuck – around the Westport railroad station near the southwestern corner of the town – a built-up area with some restaurants, stores and offices....

; New York, New York, USA; Gurgaon, Haryana, India; and Herzliya, Israel. Since inception, Canaan has raised eight funds to date, completed more than 82 acquisitions and 52 IPOs, and currently manages $3 billion in capital.

Portfolio companies

• Active Network
• Advanced BioHealing
• Aperto Networks
• Bharat Matrimony
• blip.tv
  Blip.tv
  The website Blip.tv is a platform for web series. The company offers a for the "best in original web series" and also offers a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions....
  
  
• Blurb
• Calibra Medical
• Cardlytics
• Cerexa
• Chimerix
• CommerceOne
• Cortina Systems
  Cortina Systems
  Cortina Systems, Inc. is a supplier of integrated circuits for broadband communications founded in 2001. It is based in California.- History :...
  
  
• Dexterra
• DoubleClick
  DoubleClick
  DoubleClick is a subsidiary of Google that develops and provides Internet ad serving services. Its clients include agencies, marketers and publishers who serve customers like Microsoft, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Motorola, L'Oréal, Palm, Inc., Apple Inc., Visa USA, Nike, Carlsberg among others...
  
  
• eBillme
• Echopass
• Elevation Pharmaceuticals
• ezRez Software
• Gemvara
  Gemvara
  Gemvara is a Boston-based start-up and retailer which focuses on high end fully customizable jewelry. Gemvara has raised over $25 million. The founder and president of the company Matt Lauzon started Gemvara as an undergraduate at Babson College....
  
  
• GroundWork Open Source
• Helix Therapeutics
• ID Analytics
• Kabam
  Kabam
  Kabam is an interactive entertainment company that develops and publishes massively multiplayer social games , including the popular and critically praised Kingdoms of Camelot...
  
  
• Lending Club
  Lending Club
  Lending Club is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its CEO is Renaud Laplanche. Lending Club was the first peer-to-peer lender to register its offerings as securities with the SEC, completing its SEC registration in October 2008. As of July 18, 2011 Lending Club has originated a total of...
  
  
• Liquidia Technologies
• LiveU
• Match.com
  Match.com
  Match.com is an online dating company which reportedly has more than 20 million members, made up of a 49/51 male/female ratio, and Web sites serving 25 countries in more than 8 different languages. Its headquarters are in Dallas, Texas and the company also has offices in West Hollywood, Tokyo, Rio,...
  
  
• Motionbox
• N-Trig
• Northstar Neuroscience
• ON24
  ON24
  ON24 Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that markets products and services based upon webcasting and virtual events technology. The privately held company has primary venture capital investors that include Gold Hill Capital, U.S...
  
  
• OpenSky
  OpenSky
  OpenSky is a registered trademark of Harris Corporation and is the trade name for a wireless communication system, invented by M/A-COM Inc., that is now a division of Harris RF Communications...
  
  
• Orthocon
• Peer39
  Peer39
  Peer39, Inc. is an online semantic advertising company based in New York City, with research and development facilities in Israel. Peer39 claims to improve the relevance of advertising on Internet publisher websites. Peer39 has developed proprietary semantic advertising technology that provides...
  
  
• Peninsula Pharmaceuticals
• Plixi
• PrimeSense
  PrimeSense
  PrimeSense is a Israeli company founded in 2005 by Aviad Maizels, Alexander Shpunt, Ophir Sharon, Tamir Berliner and Dima Rais. The company was selected by MIT technological review as one of world's 50 most innovative companies for 2011....
  
  
• Renaissance Wireless
• SandForce
  SandForce
  SandForce is an American "fabless" semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designs and manufactures flash memory controllers for solid-state drives . On October 26th 2011 it was acquired by LSI Corporation....
  
  
• SenSage
  SenSage
  SenSage Inc. is a privately held data warehouse software provider headquartered in San Francisco, California. SenSage serves enterprises who use the software to capture and store event data so that it can be consolidated, searched and analyzed to generate reports that detect fraud, analyze...
  
  
• SOASTA
  SOASTA
  SOASTA, Inc. is a privately-heldAmerican technology company that provides services to test websites and web applications.It is the leading provider of cloud-based testing services,and created the industry's first browser-based website testing product....
  
  
• Spine Wave
• SkillSlate
  SkillSlate
  SkillSlate or SkillSlate.com is a New York City-based start–up firm with the purpose of matching up individual service providers with customers via the Internet. The firm raised $1.1 million in capital in October 2010 with investments from Canaan Partners and First Round Capital...
  
  
• SuccessFactors
  SuccessFactors
  SuccessFactors is an American-based company headquartered in San Mateo, California, with regional headquarters in London , Munich , Paris , Hong Kong and Tokyo . Other major offices are in Brisbane, Beijing, Jakarta, Manila, Bangalore and Boston...
  
  
• Tacit Networks
  Tacit Networks
  Tacit Networks is an I.T. company based in South Plainfield, New Jersey. It was founded in 2000.Their product lines are:*iShared which provides Wide area file services and WAN optimization....
  
  
• Tremor Media
• VaxInnate
• Verance
• Vivox
  Vivox
  Vivox, Inc. specifically provides managed communication services in the form of integrated voice chat, Instant Messaging and presence to online games, virtual worlds and other online communities...
  
  
• iYogi Inc.
• Zoosk
  Zoosk
  Zoosk is an online dating website with third-party applications on several social networking services. Zoosk is based in San Francisco, California, and was ranked number 29 on Wall Street Journal's The Next Big Thing: Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies in March 2011, moving up from number 42 the...
  
  
• Zmanda
  Zmanda
  Zmanda Inc. is an Open Source and Cloud backup software company. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.. In partnership with open source companies such as Sun and MySQL, the company contributes to many open source projects.-Open Source Projects:...
  
  
• Zuberance

External links

• Canaan Partners (company website)