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.

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0-in Design Automation

0-In Design develops and supports functional verification products.

Acquired by Mentor Graphics (MENT)
3Crowd

3Crowd is building a content delivery model that will help fuel the next wave of Internet growth by making Internet delivery more cost effective. 

Private  |  San Mateo, CA
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 Networks hosts the world’s largest directory of sports and recreational activities and is the leading online community for amateur sports enthusiasts.

Private  |  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
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.

Private  |  New York, NY
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)
Altheos

Altheos, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of promising novel small molecule drugs for the treatment of glaucoma.

Private  |  South San Francisco, CA
AMICAS

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

Acquired by VitalWorks (VWKS)
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.

Private  |  Chelmsford, MA
Argon Networks

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

Acquired by Siemens (SI)
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
Bharat Matrimony

Bharat Matrimony 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-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN) (NYSE: SNY)
blip.tv

Blip.tv 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
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)
BiddingForGood, Inc.

BiddingForGood is the leader in online auction fundraising for nonprofit organizations.

Private  |  Cambridge, MA

News

DIGITAL MEDIA

August 24, 2010
Blurb makes the Inc. 500 List of Fastest Growing Companies and #1 Media Company

August 19, 2010
Equitas Micro Finance Raises Rs 45 Cr From Canaan Partners

July 8, 2010
Peer39 Adds Digital Advertising Executive Alex White as VP Product and Account Management

July 8, 2010
(LiveU News) IP Tech On The Road To Passing Trucks

July 8, 2010
Interview with Pankaj Thakar, Chief Executive Officer, MD, Cellcast Interactive India

COMM + MOBILITY

June 4, 2010
The $100M Revenue Club: Cortina Systems, Powered By Intel

May 26, 2010
N-trig Wins Gold Honor at Society for Information Display’s 2010 Display of the Year Awards

May 25, 2010
Cortina Takes PON Integration to Next Level with Voice and Switching

May 21, 2010
Xirrus: Fighting for Wireless Dominance: Interop

May 13, 2010
N-trig improves Windows 7 Multi-touch capabilities for Tablets and PCs

ENTERPRISE

August 31, 2010
Dodging Twitter, TweetPhoto becomes photo check-in social network Plixi

August 31, 2010
TweetPhoto Expands Its Photo Sharing Services for the Social Web and Changes its Name to Plixi

August 31, 2010
TweetPhoto Becomes Plixi, Presents New Vision for Location-Based Services

August 31, 2010
TweetPhoto Renames Itself As It Grows Beyond Twitter

August 31, 2010
TweetPhoto Fills Its Own Hole Before Twitter Can, Rebrands Itself as “Plixi”

CLEAN TECH

June 7, 2010
Enpirion Introduces New PowerSoC Family of DC-DC Converters for DDR2/DDR3 Memory Termination Supply (VTT) Applications

May 24, 2010
Enpirion's New High Performance EN6300 DC-DC Family Raises the Bar for Combined Efficiency and Power Density

December 15, 2009
Enpirion's 3A synchronous buck dc/dc converter among EDN' s Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2009

October 29, 2009
EnStorage - 7 Solar Innovators From Israel That Could Fuel Our Planet

August 6, 2009
Enpirion 6A PSIP dc/dc converter achieves 15W/cm²

BIOPHARMACEUTICALS

July 23, 2010
BiPar teaching Sanofi new tricks

June 7, 2010
Sanofi CEO Sees ‘Stunning’ Results for Cancer Drug (BiPar Sciences)

May 13, 2010
Chimerix Initiates Phase 1 Study of CMX157

May 11, 2010
(VaxInnate News) Winners of the TiE50 Awards 2010

May 4, 2010
RTP biotech firm Chimerix names new CEO

MEDICAL DEVICES

September 1, 2010
Advanced BioHealing to Highlight Standard of Care for Treating Diabetic Foot Ulcers at Save a Leg, Save a Life National Conference

August 31, 2010
Financings roundup: EndoGastric Solutions reports closing $30 million 'F' round

August 30, 2010
EndoGastric Solutions Raises $30M Via Series F Funding

August 30, 2010
EndoGastric raises $30M

August 30, 2010
EndoGastric Solutions Completes $30 Million Financing Round

DIAGNOSTICS

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