Diligent Robotics builds socially intelligent autonomous robots that perform non-patient-facing tasks in healthcare facilities. Its first “cobot,”...

Actio Biosciences, a biotechnology company leveraging a novel platform approach to genetics and precision medicine to develop new therapeutics that...

A conversation with renowned enterprise software CFO Mike Scarpelli.

Our eighth annual Cloud 100 list of the world’s best private cloud computing companies, produced in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and...

Maha Ibrahim focuses her investments on e-commerce and cloud companies and was one of the first investors in The RealReal. Her other investments...

On-demand grocery delivery giant Instacart has finally dropped its much anticipated S-1. The company, actually named MapleBear, is one of the...

New York to Paris in 90 minutes. What a beautiful world that would be. Hermeus aims to make it real. The Atlanta-based startup wants to build a...

This year, I’ve noticed more founders describe their businesses as “compound” companies. Borrowing the definition used by Parker Conrad of...

Paxos has been named to Forbes' Fintech 50.

We’re excited to share that we’ve partnered with SAVVY co-founders Yoav Horman, Guy Guzner, Eldar Kleiner and David Ben Zakai, leading a Series A...

The company recently launched Tomorrow-R1 via SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.

Snyk has been named to the CNBC 2023 Disruptor 50 List, following its debut on the Disruptor List in 2021 and its listing as a Top Startup for the...

Looking at first quarter numbers and surveying the big picture on this BioWorld Insider podcast are Karen Carey, BioWorld’s managing editor and...

ThirtyFIveBio aims to treat gastrointestinal cancer by targeting a so-called orphan receptor called GPR35.

A small Raleigh-based startup hopes to shake up the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) market with a treatment for an underserved target...

The combination of Axis Security and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Aruba porfolio creates the “most comprehensive edge portfolio in the industry”...

Here's how Rayfe has updated his framework to better evaluate AI/ML companies.

Nandu Anilal shares his latest on the unique unique advantages of #opensource.

We are proud to share that President Biden has announced his intention to appoint Canaan’s Julie Grant, along with five others, to the National...

When he finds the time to go fly fishing, Peter Joyce says gray wulffs, or mayfly mimics, are his good luck charm — he always catches a fish when...

Day One Biopharmaceuticals will ask regulators to approve its pediatric brain cancer drug tovorafenib before the second half of 2023, the biotech...

VCs mull warnings from pharma CEOs that law will reduce incentives for small molecule drug development, precision medicine...

We are thrilled to announce that Laura Chau has been promoted to GP at Canaan. 

Day One Biopharmaceuticals has reported promising interim data from a pivotal trial of tovorafenib in relapsed pediatric low-grade glioma, marking...

We’re pumped to announce our investment in Marvin, a B2B payments platform that is reimagining credit card receivables in Brazil. Last June, the...

Unlike successful startups like Trulia and Zillow that facilitate purchases between owners and buyers, withco actually takes on the liability...

Astra joins SpaceX, Rocket Lab and Virgin Orbit in the group of U.S. companies that have reached orbit with a privately-funded rocket.

Papa is helping seniors and low-income families get access to companionship and help around the house; and it’s being reimbursed by insurers.

The investment is also the largest funding round achieved by an industrial cybersecurity firm.

Countable has grown nearly fourfold this year – and we’re excited to lead the Series A.

Today, we are thrilled to announce our partnership with Jeremy Cai and rest of the Italic team in leading the company’s $37M Series B.

Announcing our Series A investment in Appsmith.

Life-insurance startup Ladder raised $100 million in equity funding.

Tyra is focused on overcoming acquired drug resistance.

The U.S.-based company announced Monday that it raised $4 million in seed funding, led by Canaan.

Tyra Biosciences is the latest biotech to rake in an upsized IPO. Its $172.8 million deal will push three programs targeting drug-resistant cancers...

Bzaar is a wholesale marketplace connecting suppliers in India with local sellers in the US.

The $8.5 billion valuation was up from $4.7 billion in March when the company raised $300 million.

Tia is a four-year-old startup that combines in-person and virtual care for women.

A step-by-step guide to building the ultimate pitch deck.

The latest from WoVen.

Tropic has built a software procurement and spend management platform to be used by the entire organization.

We’re excited to lead the Series A financing for Canopy.

Pfizer is doubling down on Arvinas.

The robotics landscape today is incredibly active and evolving very quickly, largely enabled by advances in AI related technology.

On this episode of WoVen, Canaan’s Nina Kjellson speaks with Chief Strategy & Scientific Officer at Headspace, Dr. Megan Jones Bell.

Advancements in space technology and new means of financing are driving a flurry of investor interest.

Like diamonds, death, and taxes, tattoos used to be forever. Ephemeral offers designs that fade within a year.

Shares of rocket builder Astra Space began trading Wednesday on the Nasdaq.

Buzzer, a live-sports streaming service, has raised $20 million in funding from venture capital firms and a group of current and former franchise...

Each year, thousands of young South Koreans compete to join pro e-sports teams, but only a few make the cut​. Gen.G in Seoul wants to help more...

A startup called Astra is on the verge of launching rockets at a fraction of the cost to competitors, potentially starting a new era for the...

Taptap Send is a financial product company leveraging technology to expand the market for global remittances. The company has a nuanced, yet...

Industrial metals is a $300 billion market in North America, and supply chain constraints and price volatility have made it ripe for disruption....

Dusty is building robot-powered tools for the modern construction workforce, starting with a small, BIM-driven robot to automate architectural and...

As we strive for more diverse technology and healthcare industries, Canaan is pursuing several new initiatives.

"We’re not selling to businesses directly here on Earth – we’re focused on providing communications to space stations, to other satellites, to...

Kepler's mission “to connect people and things everywhere, on earth and beyond” is exactly why we’re so excited to invest in and take part in the...

The latest funding round values the digital analytics technology company at $2.8 billion.

The company grew its revenues 300% in the last six or seven months.

Instead of making such games itself, the San Francisco-based Forte is an infrastructure company, using blockchain tech to enable new kinds of game...

The team at Edge Impulse has built a platform that empowers developers to go from idea to creation and deployment within minutes.

Pediatric cancer biotech Day One Pharmaceuticals is headed for Nasdaq, in a move that comes less than three months after their work on a brain...

This year, we were thrilled to have Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath, President and CEO of BIO, keynote our virtual gathering.

Papa is a company we partnered with back in 2019 to lead their Series A. Since that investment, not only has the team’s expertise and tech matched...

Targeted cancer therapies can be quite effective. Until, for some patients, the cancer mutates, and the treatment stops working. Enter Tyra.

Clutch is building the premier vertically-integrated auto retailer in Canada.

Soroush Salehian, Aeva co-founder and CEO, joins “Squawk Alley” as the company goes public to discuss what differentiates it from other Lidar brands.

Aeva, a leader in next generation 4D LiDAR sensing and perception systems, announced that it has completed its previously announced business...

Snyk has closed a $300 million funding round that gives it a valuation of $4.7 billion, quadrupling its value since the start of 2020.

Logistics automation provider Berkshire Grey Inc. is planning to go public through a merger that would value the robotics company at $2.7B.

Benjamin Gibbs, co-founder and chief executive of Ready Robotics, which makes software that runs robots from multiple manufacturers, moved his...

In honor of this historic event, we want to share a few thoughts about the future of targeted oncology and where we are making investments at Canaan.

Dragos maintains the safety and security of hundreds of customers in areas such as manufacturing, chemicals, utilities, transportation, energy,...

What Analyst Nandu Anilal is excited about in data tools and infrastructure.

Nine months after emerging from stealth, Day One Biopharmaceuticals announces a $130M Series B raise.

Aeva CEO Soroush Salehian gave his outlook for the future of autonomous vehicles and an emerging technology that is in demand to power the space.

Deepak shares the original On24 IOO from 1999.

The next chapter of “SPACs in Space” has been written.

Christine Tao and Lori Mazan, the brains behind Sounding Board, want to train any leader within an organization to be a better leader.

Sounding Board is a full-service, full-stack enterprise coaching solution.

Today we are excited to share Laura Chau and Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka have both been promoted to Partner. 

Here are a few milestones we were proud to be part of in  2020 – and a little bit on how they’ll inform our enterprise investments moving forward.

Arvinas’ lead protein degraders delivered promising early results in patients with hard-to-treat breast or prostate cancer.

The new investment brings the total gross proceeds it will have once it begins trading to more than $560 million.

As we reflect on 2020, I hope we can take the moments of awakening and make them into movements towards a more equal, equitable and healthy world.

With $30 million in Series C financing, Vivace is aiming to test one of its candidates against that pathway starting in early 2021.

San Francisco-area startup Astra became the latest U.S. rocket builder to reach space on Tuesday, with the successful launch of its Rocket 3.2...

"Why does it take two years for P&G or L’Oreal to introduce a new product? Bravo Sierra is coopting the end users into that process," says Byron Ling.

This round is the most substantial investment-to-date for a company in the ICS/OT cybersecurity sector and a clear testament to Dragos’s tremendous...

Facebook made one of its biggest plays yet to build out the services it provides to businesses on its platform in acquiring Kustomer.

A message from Co-founder/CEO Brad Birnbaum on the news.

Aeva, the lidar company started by two former Apple engineers and backed by Porsche SE, is merging with special purpose acquisition company...

Aeva is merging with InterPrivate Acquisition Corp., and should be trading on the NYSE with the ticker “AEVA” by the first quarter of 2021.

The company is seeking to build a Mach 5 aircraft that would be capable of making the trip from New York to London in just 90 minutes.

MachEye, which is launching its AI-powered BI platform today, is offering a new twist on business intelligence.

MachEye is a cloud-native solution that aims to completely democratize BI use in any organization.

With the reality of a remote world in the near-term, and likely a hybrid world in the long-term, Laura examines where additional opportunities lie...

With 40% of its new $800 million fund dedicated to healthcare, Canaan plans to ramp up biopharma investments and de novo company formation as it...

Longtime VC player Canaan Partners has announced its newest fund and expects to funnel a good portion of that money into biotech over the next few...

One reason Canaan stands out in the venture capital world is that women make up almost 40% of its investment team, roughly four times the industry...

The company was initially something of a luxury service for people willing to pay a premium to avoid going to the grocery store. Its utility was...

Today we are pleased to announce our 12th early-stage venture capital investment fund, providing $800 million in capital to support healthcare and...

The company announced a $32 million Series B investment led by Canaan.

Our Series B investment in Axis Security is a confluence of two thesis areas (1) that companies will continue to adopt “work from anywhere”...

Rayfe's thoughts on why the move to WFH isn’t too different from the move to edge computing.

Debanjan Ray apparently had big plans when he quietly left his long-held CFO spot at CytomX back in March 2019. He had gotten his own biotech.

Day One Biopharmaceuticals emerged in May to develop new drugs specifically for children with cancer. Now, as it ramps up its work, the company is...

The company’s services are already available in 17 states and Papa is going to expand to another four states in the next few months, according to...

Since the pandemic forced many beauty salons to close, manicure lovers have resorted to do-it-yourself and at-home alternatives.

With an open-source product at the top of funnel to drive interest in the platform, CEO Peter McKay says the pandemic has only accelerated the...

We’re investing in BoostUp because it’s building a first-of-its-kind revenue intelligence platform that’s challenging first-generation tools and...

Fireflies.ai is a company built to help take notes during meetings. Now that the world is working remotely, business is booming.

In this episode we explores risky ideas and unexpected paths. Our guests discuss educational expectations, lightbulb moments, and discovering their...

Instacart, whose business has soared during the pandemic, is partnering with one of Amazon's biggest rivals: Walmart.

In the latest episode from WoVen, I explore the importance of community. Our guests share stories of the influential figures in their lives & how...

Introducing Archipelago, a new company that is digitizing the risk profile of large commercial properties.

Instrumental, a startup that uses vision-powered AI to detect manufacturing anomalies, announced that it has closed a $20 million Series B led by...

Ro wants to build the “Shopify for health care,” beginning by catering to patients without insurance who want to pay for health care without an...

In previous episodes we’ve explored the nature of resilience, self-care, and fighting prejudice. Today we’re delving into the ever-elusive notion...

The biotech is rolling out a $300 million cash investment in Tizona Therapeutics, buying up 49.9% of the company and reserving up to $1.25 billion...

Gilead is acquiring a 49.9% equity interest in Tizona and has the right to acquire the remainder of the company for up to $1.25 billion.

40% of patients who recover from COVID-19 in hospital get sent home with a postviral cough that lasts three to eight weeks. Containing those...

Bond provides software that lets companies of all sorts offer products such as credit cards and debit cards.

This episode, we look at the unique set of challenges that being a woman, or a woman of color, presents in overwhelmingly white and male spaces.

Why do we always talk about the impossible invites or the hidden corners of the internet that only a select group knows about? Laura examines where...

More people than ever are flocking to get medical treatment online amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Co-host, Laura Chau explores how past guests approach self-care.

Mynd raised roughly $42 million in a funding round led by Wells Fargo & Co. and other investors betting the pandemic won’t slow increasing demand...

RenoFi’s unique renovation loan product address the funding gap by giving homeowners the ability to borrow against their post-renovation home value.

A deal with Ideaya gives GSK a path to growing its synthetic lethality pipeline, a corner of the pharma’s cancer rebuild still primarily centered...

An excerpt from the new book, Biotechnology in the Time of COVID-19: Commentary from the Front Lines, edited by Dr. Jeremy M. Levin.

COVID-19 has redrawn the landscape for space tech. Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka offers his take on the current environment.

Our guests share some of the toughest challenges they've faced, whether unexpected hurdles in their personal lives, profound moments of self-doubt,...

On Racial Injustice

"Overnight, Instacart became an essential service for millions of families across North America," the company's founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta said...

The inspiration for Day One Biopharmaceuticals emerged from an inequity in patient care highlighted by leaders in the pediatric oncology community.

Arvinas has released promising first-in-human data for its protein degrader in prostate cancer.

The emergence of the pandemic, uncertainty around its duration, and the impact on the economy pose important questions around new operating...

Day One — named for the conversations clinicians have with parents when they first tell them their child has cancer and how they hope to treat it —...

The firm, which raised three funding rounds last year, is acquiring 17-person chatbot startup Reply and hiring its 17 employees.

Day One is launching to develop new cancer treatments for children, but that could be used in adult patients, too.

The startup aims to develop cancer treatments for children and adults.

The funding will go towards a pipeline of early-stage assets led by a treatment for a life-threatening condition that causes bleeding in infants.

Brendan and other investors breaks down the opportunity he sees in quantum computing and how startups might challenge big tech in the space.

Creativity thrives within constraints & COVID-19 is testing innovators’ prowess. How will these innovators adapt to new consumer behaviors that are...

Combating loneliness is vital work. Services like Papa that offer ‘grandkids on demand’ are doing just that.

Brendan Dickinson offers his perspective on the fintech startup ecosystem amid today's COVID uncertainty.

Roche is putting Arrakis’ growing team to work on a full slate of targets that touches every corner of their expansive pipeline priorities.

With all of us on Zoom a lot these days, we're revisiting a conversation between Canaan General Partner Joydeep Bhattacharyya and Eric Yuan, Zoom's...

Nina Kjellson shares her tips for productive videoconferencing.

BioCentury Editor in Chief Simone Fishburn on why women should be shouting about their wins and using them as a platform to demand more.

We're leading the Series B financing of READY Robotics, a software platform that enables anyone to easily and rapidly deploy automation to the...

Alkymi has built a machine learning-powered data inbox that automatically extracts unstructured data from email, processes it, and feeds it into...

Ever see a story in TechCrunch about a startup and wonder: how did that happen? Will Nevius, Head of Communications at Canaan, shares an overview...

Even discussing women's health issues can be a problem for life science leaders, but can the industry afford not to support women founders and...

Company founder and CEO Harald Collet says the startup is bringing machine learning to the business analyst’s inbox with the goal of automating...

LendingClub, a fintech that pioneered personal loans made online, is buying a U.S. bank to give it access to a stable and cheaper source of funding.

Unburdened by the legacy operations of large insurance incumbents, Ladder aims to bring more transparency, speed and simplicity to customer...

READY's operating system, called Forge O/S, allows workers without any robotics background or coding experience to easily program the robots their...

The group, including Ambra Health CEO Morris Panner, wants to make it as easy to share med industry imaging as it is to send a text message.

Vineti’s cloud-based software is designed to automate and orchestrate the many steps involved in the production and delivery of cell and gene...

The $1.5 billion company The RealReal’s founder is changing the way we buy and sell luxury, but the startup was born out of realizing, "I’d have to...

Glo Harris is a leadership coach who trades in concepts such as self-confidence, self-awareness, mission/vision, truth-speaking, team alignment,...

Astra, Darpa's rocket startup of choice, is preparing to launch satellites into orbit in record time.

Telehealth startup Ro wants to set itself apart in the direct-to-consumer erectile dysfunction (ED) market -- and it's hoping that a new...

On January 14, Canaan General Partner Nina Kjellson hosted our annual WoVen (Women Who Venture) gathering during the JP Morgan Healthcare...

Berkshire Grey, which combines AI and robotics to automate omnichannel fulfillment for retailers, ecommerce, and logistics enterprises, today...

Tyra is a biotech “purpose built” to address a surge of acquired resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors, where patients’ tumors mutate around the...

Tyra is aiming for drivers of drug-resistant tumors to come up with new drugs that work against the mutated, or resistant, form of a protein, as...

We're excited to announce the promotions of Byron Ling, Colleen Cuffaro and Hootan Rashidifard.

Vineti Cofounder & CEO Amy DuRoss explores the best way to measure the real rate of progress in personalized cell therapies, gene therapies, and...

Berkshire Grey has displayed some pretty sophisticated pick-and-place robots and is positioned particularly well in the warehouse space, making it...

Lily AI is a startup focused on using deep learning to help brands better convert customers through emotionally tailored recommendations.

ClimaCell is taking a number of innovative approaches for gathering weather data and building forecasting models, today announced that it is...

While today Brud acts as a studio, carefully crafting the stories of these specific influencers, one can imagine a day when any user on the...

Mariam Naficy is the founder and CEO of Minted, an online design marketplace that produces stationery, paper goods, home decor products, and...

WhatsApp's primary purpose is to communicate information quickly and effectively. This is utility at its finest, while status indicators take a...

World View is sending massive, high-altitude balloons to the stratosphere to snap images of Earth with unprecedented resolution.

The British biotech is searching for drugs to treat the poorly understood GPR65 receptor, which they believe plays a crucial role in both cancer...

Nina sits down with Amy DuRoss, co-founder and CEO of Vineti, a digital health company with a software solution to drive and scale personalized...

Today we are so proud to share the promotions of Brendan Dickinson and Julie Grant to General Partner.

Grant is the fourth woman to join Canaan’s ranks of general partners. She joins Maha Ibrahim, who focuses on technology investments, and Nina...

Let’s examine Slack purely as a social app. Slack, as a messaging platform, has conversation at its core and a strong sense of community.

Company plans $500 systems to equip consumer cars with ‘lidar’ sensors.

The Boston-area medtech is working on new implant systems using its "synthetic cartilage" for treatment of conditions like osteoarthritis.

We are fortunate to partner with founders Meghan and Kjeld, who are using technology to pioneer the future of orthodontics and oral wellness for...

I recently had the pleasure of hosting a SaaSQ fireside chat with Dheeraj Pandey, founder and CEO of Nutanix. Nutanix is a publicly-traded hybrid...

Apex.AI, founded by automated systems engineers Jan Becker and Dejan Pangercic, raised $15.5 million in a Series A last November, and revealed...

There's a common theory with social media companies that there's a point a user must reach to unlock value in the service. But, there's a similar...

We're thrilled to see Rayfe, the youngest Principal in Canaan's history, named to the list.

Kustomer has closed yet another round of funding — no less than its third fundraise of the year — as it continues to double down on its new...

Turo lets individuals rent their personal vehicles. Some “hosts” are building businesses at airports that major car rental companies on their toes.

What is perhaps most notable about many of social media companies today is that they are in fact, no longer social. Laura shares her views on the...

Tim Moore, who oversaw the CAR-T buildout at Kite, will officially become PACT's president and chief technical officer.

The company will allow its cloud customers to tap quantum computers made by QCI and others.

Thanks to Fireflies.ai's accurate voice transcription software and AL/ML – you and your team can record, transcribe and search across your...

Papa uses digital tools, such as a website, mobile app and call center to match aging seniors with college students.

Laura Chau sits down with Michelle Phan, digital entrepreneur, Founder of EM Cosmetics and the original creator and influencer, far before those...

Wende shares her insights on the industry landscape on pages 47 and 48 of the report.

The gig-economy startup has picked up enough new business from retailers like Costco Wholesale Corp., Publix Super Markets Inc. and Wegmans Food...

The millennial dinner party isn’t dead - it’s just morphed into something a little more casual. Coterie has you covered for all your holiday party...

Today we are excited to announce our seed investment in ManiMe, a company that provides personalized and stylish nails without the chemicals or...

Laura Chau sits down with Julie Wainwright, Founder and CEO of The RealReal. Deemed "tycoon of the preowned" by The New York Times, Julie is a true...

A new framework for fintech helps shine a light on where outsized value can be created and venture returns realized.

While whole shoals of biotechs are clustered around single cancer targets, Nocion is away from the pack working on better ways to treat conditions...

The high-altitude platform just doubled its previous flight-duration record.

Luxury brands are starting to endorse resale as a way to attract new customers, boost sales and increase the longevity of their products.

While venture capital funds look to take equity in hot consumer brands in exchange for fueling their growth, a cottage industry, led by CircleUp,...

In the last 18 months, the tech world has seen wonderful examples of success by women at the highest level - Maha Ibrahim stood next to CEO Julia...

ClimaCell uses vast quantities of nontraditional data to issue hyperlocal “street-by-street, minute-by-minute” weather forecasts.

Venture investors have backed several startups in the sector including SmileDirectClub, Candid Care and Uniform Teeth.

A fresh look at the 2016 blackout in Ukraine by Dragos suggests that the cyberattack behind it was intended to cause far more damage.

Right on the heels of nailing a $40 million upfront for its oncology R&D collaboration deal with Eli Lilly and bringing its tally of cash raised to...

A startup called Quantum Circuits is networking mini quantum devices together to create computers it claims will be easier to scale up than rival...

Canaan General Partner Maha Ibrahim joins a panel at TechCrunch Sessions to discuss enterprise trends, concerns about the state of the market and...

Even Financial has created a machine-learning-powered platform that algorithmically targets and matches customers with lenders, helping banks get a...

The startup, led by former Twilio executive Roy Ng, will offer software to better integrate fintech providers with regional banks.

How the reseller brings designer goods into the “circular economy.”

For the past two years, Ran Harnevo has been working on what may seem like an idealistic, impossible task for this moment in time: building a...

The luxury goods consignment site is focusing on building its retail efforts in key markets like New York rather than buying out legacy chains.

Bond is hoping small banks will turn to its cloud-based hub that’s modeled on a popular developer platform used by the likes of Uber, Netflix and...

Resellers of designer clothing and apparel say there’s no reason to be closeted about buying and selling pre-owned luxury wearables. The RealReal...

The Boston-based robot maker offers retailers an alternative to Amazon’s storehouse automation.

We're excited to invest in Bond, a team on a mission to accelerate the pace of financial innovation and access to capital.

Heated political rhetoric on immigration tends to overlook the day-to-day needs of newcomers to a community. Homeis has a tech-forward solution.

ScaleFactor and it’s backers say it's giving small and medium-sized businesses digital tools and insight typically reserved for large enterprises.

With tailgate season just weeks away, Reese Witherspoon and Coterie have got you covered.

ClimaCell, a fledgling weather technology company based in Boston, released a mobile app Monday that promises “street-by-street, minute-by-minute...

This week's guest is Gail Maderis, president and CEO of Antiva, a biotech company that's developing novel, topical therapeutics for the treatment...

While The Inside already offers a range of made-to-order furniture like beds, headboards, chairs and ottomans, it’s aiming for the center of your...

It's been something of a banner year for MindTickle, which notched a 100% year-over-year increase in recurring revenue driven by a 200% uptick in...

This coincides with Superplastic trying to turn two of its most popular characters into virtual Instagram stars, a burgeoning niche that could...

Since it was founded in 2011 by entrepreneur Julie Wainwright, The RealReal has become a phenomenon, boasting 8 million members and 1,500...

The company’s Janky and Guggimon characters will come to life on Instagram, where they will publish animated videos, interact with their fans and...

Karla Gallardo is the co-founder and CEO of Cuyana, a San Francisco-based women's clothing and lifestyle brand. Born and raised in Ecuador, her...

We’re thrilled to congratulate MindTickle on a $40 million Series C, a validation of multiple years of fantastic growth and team building.

PACT has started dosing patients in an early-stage clinical trial of a product candidate designed to be targeted to proteins in cancer cells unique...

PACT Pharma is developing a method for taking T cells from patients with solid tumors and engineering them to be able to recognize and attack those...

While cultivating social connection is a fundamental human need, Jen Batchelor wanted to create a solution for experiencing more moments of revelry...

IAC chief estimates car-sharing marketplace could be at least as big as car-rental business.

This episode of the WoVen Podcast features Ginger More, a true pioneer in the male-dominated venture capital world of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Tune...

Using advanced computations, nTop engineering software has created brackets for space satellites and spinal cages for use in back surgery.

Julia Collins has dedicated her career to tackling some of the most difficult problems that our world faces: food insecurity, agricultural damage,...

Since the recession, there has been a boom in online marketplaces that let shoppers buy and sell all manner of used clothing and accessories, from...

Shares of The RealReal jumped on their first day of trading Friday, as the secondhand-fashion online retailer tests investors’ appetite for the...

There’s a new test for the IPO market’s revival coming later this week. The RealReal is expected to price its stock Thursday night, with the shares...

Julie Wainwright, chief executive officer of The RealReal, discusses the treatment of women in tech with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg...

Luxury consignment and a wave of reissued designs signal a particularly nostalgia-soaked moment in style.

Luxury resale bags can even appreciate in value as luxury houses increase their prices every year, says Julie Wainwright, CEO and founder of The...

More e-commerce brands are growing their brick-and-mortar footprint, as resellers like The RealReal are increasingly attracting new customers.

Luxury consignment website the RealReal officially opened its first West Coast concept store, aiming to make the buying — and selling — of high-end...

What’s moving in the secondhand luxury market? Gucci and fanny packs for men, says the consignment empire The RealReal.

Julie Wainwright, founder of the luxury resale company, explains how second-hand stuff got sexy.

LTV/CAC calculations are of waning importance in SaaS. It's clear to the SaaS community that the future of selling software is bottoms-up.

“We weren’t interested in making another bubbly water... We wanted to feel more, not less — to wake up fresh and ready to take on the day, in full...

O.K., it’s nonalcoholic. But that does translate to buzz-free? Kin takes sober cocktails perhaps as far as they can go by blending botanicals...

Comet Therapeutics, a biotech taking aim at metabolic diseases, has unveiled itself with $28.5 million in series A financing and biopharma veteran...

In a world with declining alcohol consumption rates, the founders of Kin are reimagining revelry.

When it comes to tapping protein degraders to fight diseases like cancer, many assumed the biology worked, but the chemistry was no good. Arvinas...

Our guest for this episode is Canaan General Partner Wende Hutton, who has been a venture capitalist for more than 25 years -- a remarkable feat...

Telegenomics provider Genome Medical has raised $23 million to help scale up its “last-mile” patient counseling services for healthcare systems and...

Meditation, like yoga a decade ago, is the next large cultural shift in the way people take care of themselves.

Arvinas has inked another Big Pharma partnership to get their protein degradation engines revving — for both humans and crops.

Our guest for this episode is Candace Nelson, whose career spans brick and mortar retail, e-commerce, media and investing. Her philosophy is that...

Women — often in their 40s and 50s — make up more than half the contractors working for major food delivery apps like Instacart.

The first key to our success is our people and that we hire good people,” says Robert Lee, the company’s founder and chief executive.

Kustomer is a customer service startup that calls in data from multiple external channels and the software and apps that a company uses to manage...

Humans have been meditating for 5,000 years, says Stephen Sokoler, founder of Journey Meditation. But in the last decade, something changed: We’ve...

From the beginning of his career through the development of a paradigm-shifting approach to cancer therapy, Nils has been a superb “synthetic”...

Apex.AI has added Karl-Thomas Neumann, an industry veteran who in the past served as the chief executive of Continental AG and led Volkswagen AG’s...

In the mid-2000s, a team led by Robert Schoelkopf of Yale, whose lab would eventually seed the quantum field with executives and scientists, and...

The Orphan Drug Act worked too well. It didn’t just stimulate development of therapies for rare diseases, it reoriented huge swaths of the industry...

We created this series to share (at some scale) women’s stories about how they achieve and how they do life.

Our guest for this episode is Dr. Odette Harris. She made history last year when Stanford’s department of neurosurgery announced she would become...

You’ve no doubt heard about the “Internet of Things”—maybe you’ve even heard too much—but Shimon Elkabetz of ClimaCell wants you to start thinking...

If you’ve spent some time around the Canaan Fintech team, you’ve undoubtedly heard us talk about a new industry pattern: these says, it seems all...

Drawing on its experience with CAR T cell therapies, Vineti has developed a cloud-based software platform that standardizes processes and drives...

NextCure — founded in 2015 by Lieping Chen, a noted I/O researcher behind Amplimmune, a company bought out by AstraZeneca five years ago — has now...

Coterie co-founders Linden Ellis and Sara Raffa explain the concept behind elevated party supplies for any occasion and why gathering with friends...

PROTAC technology brings "unlimited" possibilities for cancer treatment says Arvinas founder & CSO Craig Crews. "It can be applied to so many...

Journey is a subscription iOS app offering live 15-minute group meditation classes with instructors that interact with you directly.

BumbleBee Spaces is taking part in Ikea's “startup boot camp" -- an effort by the world’s No. 1 furniture retailer to attract a new generation of...

Tubular has pulled in more media partners to collaborate on developing standards for tracking viewership across social media.

In his 30 years of experience, Nils Lonberg has played pivotal roles in the cancer therapy revolution. We are thrilled to announce he’ll be joining...

In a departure from traditional sports, Gen.G will not only be looking to attract top players, but top content creators as well, since they plan to...

The startup is trying to achieve a feat once thought to be biotech fantasy: Develop oral medicines - pills - that can target RNA, the...

Bev, a female-focused beverage company disrupting the male-dominated alcohol industry, has raised $7 million.

Aeva has signed a sensor-system deal with an Audi-owned unit that is working on self-driving technology for Volkswagen AG.

Today, Canaan proudly introduces Nocion Therapeutics, a Series A neurogenic inflammation and analgesic company discovering and developing novel...

To help publicize the sustainability of consigning clothing and participating in a circular economy, The RealReal has rolled out its first...

Once upon a time, the Hermès Birkin could arguably have been called the rarest handbag in the world. Then the fashion resale market -- including...

SoftBank is investing $7M in ClimaCell, a weather startup that combines traditional forecasting with wireless signals, street cameras, drones and...

Maha Ibrahim of Canaan, Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures and Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures, discuss the need for more women in venture capital.

When it comes to Venture Capital, there’s a financial incentive to close the gender gap: Greater diversity yields higher returns. Maha Ibrahim sits...

Maha Ibrahim, Canaan Partners general partner, discusses the venture capital funding environment and gender bias in the industry with Bloomberg's...

We are thrilled to share that Joydeep Bhattacharyya has been promoted to General Partner at Canaan.

Spark Networks plans to acquire San Francisco’s Zoosk, making it the second largest online dating platform in North America. Spark Networks valued...

The companies that make up our SaaS portfolio have shown some incredible momentum over the last 18 months. Here’s a bit about what they’ve been up to.

Researchers at Arvinas are hijacking the cell’s protein-disposal system in the fight against Alzheimer’s and intractable cancers.

There are higher numbers of female investors in health-tech than in traditional tech, according to new research. But women are still the minority....

Blockchain gaming startup Forte has announced a big deal with Ripple’s Xpring cryptocurrency platform to invest $100 million in game developers who...

Three of Canaan's general partners are women, and 40% of our investing team is female. Each of our paths to Canaan were different, but none of us...

Turo, the Airbnb-like service for autos, is helping consumers afford ever-pricier new cars.

The Tia Clinic, located in New York’s Flatiron neighborhood, is supporting wellness with timely holistic health care that intends to take the...

Grey Wolf Therapeutics is working on a fresh approach to immuno-oncology that does not directly target the immune system, but instead alters tumor...

Can Silicon Valley survivor Julie Wainwright’s luxury consignment company, The RealReal, save retail?

Facebook could use the underlying AI technology and GrokStyle’s employees to bolster its own efforts in the field.

Money laundering – and regulator fines – are expensive pain points for the financial industry. Legacy monitoring systems just haven't cut it,...

Dozens of industries have been re-thought with the experience-driven, millennial customer in mind. The next business that's ripe for...

Today’s biggest industries largely follow the 80/20 rule of 80% manual and 20% automated. However, in tomorrow’s world that 80/20 will flip, and...

Much of healthcare is sorely lacking on the “joy” front. Here are three takeaways that healthcare innovators can channel to “spark joy” and capture...

Gail Maderis, President & CEO of Antiva, knows how to shape and lead people to get results.

We are excited to share that Michael Gilroy has been promoted to Partner.

I am delighted to announce our Series B investment in Dragos, a pioneer in the fast emerging Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security market.

Berkshire Grey’s machines can pick, pack and ship most items of 5 pounds or less.

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are coming. The question is no longer if, but rather where we are along the adoption curve across various use cases and...

We are so proud of these three rising stars -- Adina Tecklu, Hootie Rashidifard and Laura Chau -- for being named to Forbes’ 30 under 30!

Autonomous technology has many hurdles to clear before it's ubiquitous, including better and cheaper vision. Aeva claims to have a next-generation...

Arvinas, a preclinical biotech developing protein degradation therapies for advanced cancers, raised $120 million by offering 7.5 million shares at...

Robot furniture is happening with Bumblebee Spaces. This is the single greatest thing to happen to humanity ever, the robots told us to say.

A new generation of entrepreneur is building consumer products and services - ideas that seem crazy today, and will feel intuitive in a few years....

Antiva is working on a first-in-class treatment that, if successful, could make surgery for precancerous cervical lesions caused by the human...

We're investing in ScaleFactor, a company focused on empowering small businesses to easily make the best strategic and financial decisions so they...

We’re excited to be launching Canaan Beta, Canaan’s new $20 million seed program that aims to invest in the next wave of consumer technologies...

We at Canaan are “all in” on the notion that diversity of knowledge and experience breeds the best results. With this as our core value, PACT...

How far have loyalty programs come in actually cultivating true loyalty from consumers, as opposed to just transactions? Introducing our newest...

Throughout her career investing in early-stage biotech companies, she's brought her children to board meetings, coexisted with a "band of...

It's been decades in the making, but the current AI summer is going to be a long one. Read more from AI industry veteran and investor, Rich Boyle...

The progress made in the treatment of CF is shows what can happen when research, policy, advocacy and investment align toward a common goal. But...

Professor Robert Schoelkopf of QCI inside a lab at Yale University. Photo Credit: Roger Kisby for The New York Times

An inside look at how The RealReal is redefining consignment for its 8 million members (and counting).

General Partner Wende Hutton is an industry pioneer. Partner Julie Grant chatted with Wende about today’s scientific renaissance, the importance of...

The Makers is a new Canaan content series featuring entrepreneur and investor insights into company-building.

The prehistoric nature of health IT isn’t just a nuisance. It will literally determine whether patients and physicians can realize the potential of...

Meet our newest investment Homeis. A new kind of social network that connects foreign born locals with one another, and their roots.

Canaan Associate Laura Chau reflects on the 3 major takeaways she's learned from women in venture capital.

WSJ: Ideaya Biosciences Collects $94 Million for Cancer Therapy

Diversity is not window dressing. It is a positive predictor of performance and governance.

Excited to share news about our new $800 million fund. We know what works and we're sticking to it with our diversified, early stage approach.

Get to know our newest GP and longtime startup operator Rich Boyle. Word to the wise: don't throw the term AI around with him unless you mean it.

Heavy drinking is the largest ignored epidemic in the U.S. There is a superior alternative to rehab.

Let's talk body politics.

A simple promise: replacing injections with pills.