Canaan has been a trusted investor in technology and healthcare companies since 1987. Canaan has funded more than 240 companies since inception. With recent investments in the US, Israel, and India, Canaan catalyzes the growth of market leaders globally.

#, A - B
Jump to:   # | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
AMICAS

AMICAS is a leader in radiology and medical image and information management solutions over the Internet.

Acquired by VitalWorks (VWKS)
0-in Design Automation

0-In Design develops and supports functional verification products.

Acquired by Mentor Graphics (MENT)
Acme Packet

AcmePacket makes VOIP equipment for carriers and was one of the top 10 performing IPOs of 2006.

Public (APKT)  |  Burlington, MA
Active Network

Active Network hosts the world’s largest directory of sports and recreational activities and is the leading online community for amateur sports enthusiasts.

Public (ACTV)  |  San Diego, CA
Adlyfe

Adlyfe Inc. develops innovative diagnostic technologies that can detect fatal brain diseases in the blood before symptoms occur.

Private  |  Rockville, MD
AdNear

AdNear is the leading location-aware mobile advertising platform in APAC.

Private  |  Bangalore, India
AdvancePCS

AdvancePCS grew to become the nation’s largest independent provider of health improvement services.

Public. Acquired by CVS/Caremark (CVS)
Advanced BioHealing

Advanced BioHealing (ABH) is delivering the promise of regenerative medicine today.

Acquired by Shire (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY)
adverCar, Inc.

adverCar allows brands to reach consumers where they live, shop, work and play, on a media platform that can’t be turned off, clicked away or fast forwarded;  on the doors, hoods and rear windows of GPS tracked consumer vehicles.

Private  |  Santa Monica, CA
ALDEA Pharmaceuticals

ALDEA is developing novel enzyme activators to enhance the removal of toxic aldehydes, including those associated with the common flushing response to alcohol in persons of East Asian descent.

Private  |  Palo Alto, CA
AllBusiness

AllBusiness.com is an online media and commerce company that presents practical solutions to real-world business questions.

Public. Acquired by NBC Internet, Inc. (NBCi)
Alsius

Alsius is the worldwide leader in core body temperature regulation technology.

Public (ALUS)  |  Irvine, CA
AlterEgo Networks

AlterEgo Networks helps companies accelerate productivity by enabling Internet content adaption and delivery for wireless devices.

Acquired by Macromedia (MACR)
Amicus Therapeutics

Amicus is pioneering next-generation oral therapies for the management of human genetic diseases.

Public (FOLD)  |  Cranbury, NJ
ANADIGICS

ANADIGICS is enabling wireless OEMs to build more capabilities into each new generation of products with industry-leading power amplifiers for wireless and broadband applications.

Public (ANAD)  |  Warren, NJ
Aperto Networks

Aperto Networks is the leader in the most challenging segment of the WiMAX equipment market: carrier-class infrastructure.

Private  |  Milpitas, CA
Apieron, Inc.

Apieron is developing a noninvasive monitor to measure exhaled nitric oxide for managing inflammation and controlling the underlying disease of asthma.

Acquired by Aerocrine
Apriva

Apriva is the leading wireless provider of secure and reliable Point of Sale (POS) applications.

Private  |  Scottsdale, AZ
Arbor Networks

Arbor Networks acquired Ellacoya, delivering on its mission to deliver secure service control solutions for global networks.  Its customers include over 70 percent of the world’s ISPs and many of the largest enterprise networks in use today.

Acquired by Tektronix Communications (DHR)
Argon Networks

Argon developed a high-speed routing switch for the next-generation multi-service Internet.

Acquired by Siemens (SI)
Artspace

Artspace is the premier online marketplace for contemporary artwork from some the world's best artists, bringing access to great art and artists at affordable prices.

Private  |  New York, NY
Associated Content

Associated Content is the Web’s leading open content publishing platform.  With over 1 million unique pieces of content and 250,000 contributors and growing, AC’s proprietary publishing and content management system enables consumers, media partners and professionals to distribute and be compensated for content.

Acquired by Yahoo!  |  New York, NY
Axial Exchange, Inc.

Axial Exchange is the open source solution to sharing health care information.

Private  |  Raleigh, NC
Beckon, Inc.

Beckon redefines how companies manage, measure, and optimize marketing spend and performance across all channels.

Private  |  San Mateo, CA
BharatMatrimony

BharatMatrimony is the world’s largest consumer Internet site for matrimonial services.

Private  |  Chennai, India
BiPar Sciences, Inc.

BiPar is developing a potential new class of tumor-selective drugs designed to meet the unmet needs of cancer patients.

Acquired by Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN) (NYSE: SNY)
Blip

Blip is revolutionizing media by making independent show production sustainable, scalable and profitable.

Private  |  New York, NY
Blurb

Blurb is changing the face of publishing by letting anyone easily create and sell bookstore-quality books.

Private  |  San Francisco, CA
borro

borro provides short-term personal asset loans against fine art, jewelry, luxury watches, prestige cars, fine wine and more.

Private  |  New York, NY
Broadband Services

Services for broadband network implementation.

Private  |  Highlands Ranch, CO
Business Layers

Business Layers was the first company to define and address the eProvisioning market, and the first to define a provisioning standard.

Acquired by Netegrity (NETE)
Butterfly Health, Inc.

Butterfly Health offers an innovative personal hygiene solution for the discreet protection of accidental bowel leakage.

Private  |  Los Gatos, CA

News

DIGITAL MEDIA

June 18, 2013
THE WATCHERS (Skybox)

June 7, 2013
With rising revenues, Lending Club CEO plans expansion (Q&A)

June 6, 2013
Fashion Brand Cuyana Lands $1.7M From Canaan Partners To Get Women To Buy Fewer, Better Things

May 22, 2013
Zoosk Reports Record Revenue in Q1 2013

May 17, 2013
Going Solo (Loylty Rewardz

COMM + MOBILITY

June 4, 2013
Xirrus Appoints Veteran Industry Executive as Vice President of Sales

May 27, 2013
mCarbon Announces Availability Of Global USSD Interactive Services Suite

May 24, 2013
Xirrus Wins Innovation in Enterprise Wireless Solutions Award at Ethernet Innovation Summit

May 17, 2013
Small Telecom 'Disruptors' Defying the Odds (LiveU News)

May 7, 2013
Xirrus Delivers on the Promise of Enterprise Mobility With New Products That Unite the Wired and Wireless Network, Offering Fast Deployment and Consistent Application Performance

ENTERPRISE

June 10, 2013
Echopass Launches Cloud Contact Center - Enterprise Channel on TMCnet

June 6, 2013
WibiData’s open-source libraries, models and tools make it easier to store, extract and analyze data on HBase

May 23, 2013
Cloudera Founder’s Enterprise Data App Management Startup WibiData Raises $15M From Canaan Partners, Eric Schmidt And Others

May 2, 2013
iYogi launches cloud CRM service for remote PC support

April 30, 2013
ShopKeep POS Wins Technology Innovation of the Year Award from Electronic Transactions Association

CLEAN TECH

May 14, 2013
Power Technology Innovator Enpirion acquired by Altera Corp.

April 4, 2013
Enstorage Goes Live with A 50 KW, Grid Connected HBr Flow Battery

February 27, 2013
Enpirion Wins Top Honor at embedded world 2013

December 13, 2012
Enpirion Expands Executive Team to Drive its Leadership in Enterprise Server Power Market

December 4, 2012
Enpirion and Digi-Key Corporation Announce Global Distribution Agreement

BIOPHARMACEUTICALS

June 11, 2013
Dermira scores $35M venture round for dermatology pipeline

June 6, 2013
CytomX Announces Global Strategic Collaboration with Pfizer to Develop and Commercialize Multiple Probody™-Drug Conjugates in Oncology

June 5, 2013
Novira Therapeutics Expands Management Team with Appointment of Klaus Klumpp, Ph.D., the Former Global Head of Roche's Virology Discovery Initiatives, as Vice President Discovery Research

June 3, 2013
CytomX Therapeutics Named a 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup

May 21, 2013
Liquidia Technologies Announces Extension of Collaboration with PATH to Develop Next Generation Pneumococcal Vaccine 

MEDICAL DEVICES

June 17, 2013
Minimally Invasive Devices Raises Another $2.5 Mln (MID)

May 13, 2013
European study shows positive results for inlay in emmetropic presbyopic patients (ReVision Optics)

April 10, 2013
Relievant Medsystems Achieves Completion of Interim Safety Data Analysis of Intracept in SMART Pivotal Study and Expands Senior Leadership Team

March 25, 2013
Canaan Partners leads $9m Series B round for Minimally Invasive Devices

February 28, 2013
Transcend Medical Completes Enrollment in Landmark Glaucoma Study Evaluating the CyPass® Micro-Stent 

DIAGNOSTICS

October 1, 2012
LiveU makes the connection

August 25, 2012
Blurb at Clerkenwell Design Week

August 13, 2012
DSI Launches PhysioTel™ Digital: The First Fully-Digital Telemetry System for Large Animal Physiologic Monitoring

November 30, 2011
Data Sciences International Appoints New CEO to Lead Market Expansion Plans

September 10, 2009
Cylex, Inc. Appoints Brad L. Stewart as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board