Technology

Rich Boyle

General Partner / West Coast

Since 2016

Rich is a longtime operations executive turned venture capitalist who invests in real estate tech, artificial intelligence, robotics and marketplaces. Rich was the President, Chairman and CEO of LoopNet, the leading online marketplace for the Commercial Real Estate industry. He led LoopNet through a successful IPO in 2006 and an eventual $900 million sale to CoStar Group. Earlier, Rich was SVP of Products & Technology at Risk Management Solutions and, immediately prior to joining Canaan, an Operating Partner with Khosla Ventures. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Rich in 5

Origins: Grew up in rural Nebraska - farm country

Sport: Basketball - would rather play, but if watching it’s the Warriors

Dream Job: NBA sharpshooter

Interests: Active & outdoors: basketball, snowboarding, motorcycling, hiking

Accomplishments: Serial entrepreneur at great startups

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TechCrunch: Tomorrow.io’s Radar Satellites Use Machine Learning to Punch Well Above Their Weight

Hermeus Completes Iron Bird Quarterhorse Testing

TechCrunch: Diligent raises $25 million to triple its nursing robot’s reach

Rich Boyle: Meet Moxi: Why We Invested in Diligent Robotics

New York To Paris In 90 Minutes. Can This Startup Make It Happen?

Forbes: Hermeus Named to Forbes' Next Billion Dollar Startups

CNBC: Tomorrow.io Aims to Revolutionize Forecasting with a Constellation of Radar Satellites

FinLedger: Lev raises $170M, including Series B led by First American new VC brand

Business Insider: This founder just raised $30 million for a startup that helps small-business owners buy their properties

Fast Company: withco helps small businesses buy their buildings so they don’t get priced out

Forbes: withco emerges from stealth with $30 million to help small businesses own their real estate

Rich Boyle: The birth of small business commercial

CNN Travel: Why a Mach 5 passenger plane is a crazy idea that might just work

TechCrunch: Commercial real estate lending startup Lev brings in $30M on a $130M valuation

Rich Boyle: Laying it all out with Dusty Robotics

TechCrunch: The fulfilling world of warehouse robotics

Forbes: Archipelago raises $34M to connect the scattered risk insurance market

TechCrunch: Weather app ClimaCell is now Tomorrow.io and raises $77M

WSJ: Warehouse robotics provider Berkshire Grey to go public through SPAC deal

TechCrunch: Supersonic aircraft startup Hermeus raises $16M Series A

Insurance Insider: Shah’s Archipelago Analytics structuring $500B of property data for mega-insureds

Rich Boyle: Introducing Archipelago

Forbes: Zibo raises $10.5M, unveils banking and rent payment platform for small landlords

TechCrunch: ClimaCell raises $23M Series C for its weather intelligence platform

Bloomberg: Wells Fargo backs former NFL kicker’s single-family rental firm

VentureBeat: Uber taps ClimaCell to improve ETA estimates with hyper-local weather data

VentureBeat: Berkshire Grey raises $263 million for industrial robots

TechCrunch: As retail robotics heats up, Berkshire Grey raises $263M

The Information: Silicon Valley braces for belt tightening

Washington Post: Private weather company ClimaCell to spin off nonprofit to tackle weather forecasting, early warnings in Africa

Forbes: ClimaCell named to AI 50 - America’s most promising artificial intelligence companies

The Financial Times: SoftBank strikes deal with Berkshire Grey warehouse robotics

The Washington Post: Meet the ClimaCell weather app. Alerting you when it’s about to rain, down to the minute, all around the world.

Fortune: How ClimaCell could revolutionize weather forecasting

Bloomberg: SoftBank backs ClimaCell, startup pioneering hyper-accurate weather reports

TechCrunch: ClimaCell bets on IoT for better weather forecasts

Bloomberg: Facebook acquires GrokStyle, visual shopping startup, to bolster AI work

TechCrunch: ClimaCell and Google team up to launch a new high-resolution weather forecast for India

Businessweek: These robots help Amazon’s competitors narrow the delivery gap

Axios: ClimaCell raises $45 million for short-term weather forecasting data

Rich Boyle: Enjoying an AI summer

Fortune Term Sheet: Rich Boyle – 5 Qs with a dealmaker

TechCrunch: Apartment List raises $50 million for home rentals

Boston Globe: Startup promises a weather report just for your block

Entrepreneur: Why this ruthlessly prioritizing entrepreneur says you should write down one goal each day

Michael Beckerman: On the startup road: Canaan Partners

TechCrunch: Grokstyle is putting computer to vision to work at home with $2m in funding

TechCrunch: Apartment List raises $30 million to find you a home

Mynd secures $5.5 million in funding

Crowdfund Insider: At the intersection of fintech: Canaan Partners

Spotlight: Q&A with Rich Boyle

Rich in 5

Origins: Grew up in rural Nebraska - farm country

Sport: Basketball - would rather play, but if watching it’s the Warriors

Dream Job: NBA sharpshooter

Interests: Active & outdoors: basketball, snowboarding, motorcycling, hiking

Accomplishments: Serial entrepreneur at great startups