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Canaan
Venture capital firm · Founded 1987 · Active in 2026
Canaan is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1987. The page below shows 42 Power Law outcomes from Canaan's portfolio — 32 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · Other B2B Software · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · India · Germany. Canaan ranks #103 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Canaan’s biggest exits.
Canaan portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
The 42 Canaan Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA37
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India3
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Germany1
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France1
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Biotech & Life Sciences10
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Other B2B Software6
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Marketing5
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Fintech5
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Transportation4
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eCommerce & Marketplaces3
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Robotics2
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Health Tech & Medtech2
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Space2
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Cybersecurity2
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Other1
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Series B+18
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Series A13
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Seed5
Canaan’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Canaan’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 5 companies where Canaan is a named shareholder, worth about $794M in estimated equity value.
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1
ContentSquare
5.5%
$5.6B
$308M
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2
Snyk
3%
$7.4B
$222M
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3
Dragos
8%
$1.7B
$136M
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4
MindTickle
9%
$1.2B
$108M
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5
Field AI
1%
$2.0B
$20M
Estimated value = Canaan’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Canaan's 42 Power Law outcomes.
How does Canaan stack up?
Canaan in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Canaan's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
79 founders across the 42 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Canaan.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Canaan
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Canaan on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Canaan
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Canaan — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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