Venture Capital

Canaan Partners

Canaan Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1987 as a management buyout spin-out from General Electric's venture unit. The firm invests in "visionaries with transformative ideas," backing companies from seed through Series A across a roughly 60/40 split between technology and healthcare. On the technology side Canaan funds developer tools, security, infrastructure, fintech, consumer, AI, and frontier/deep-tech companies; on the healthcare side it specializes in de novo biotech creation, therapeutics, and medical devices. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with offices in San Francisco, Menlo Park, and New York City, Canaan has raised roughly $7 billion across 13 funds and is actively deploying Fund XIII. Over its 37-year history the firm reports a track record of 73 IPOs and 152 M&A exits, with notable investments including Instacart, LendingClub, The RealReal, DexCom, Match.com, Snyk, Turo, Cardlytics, and Day One Biopharmaceuticals.

341 portfolio companies 341 publish APIs here 14 properties
Venture CapitalSeedSeries AEarly StageHealthcareBiotechDeveloper ToolsFintechConsumerArtificial IntelligenceNorth America
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API Evangelist Portfolio Report
The Canaan Partners API Portfolio

Every Canaan Partners company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why a broad, long-vintage generalist book still has no reference-grade API.

Read the report $750.00 · every API-bearing company in the book, scored on the Kin Score
Portfolio Strength across 341 profiled portfolio companies on the network
5 top-rated API companies 2 exemplar · 3 strong
26 agent-ready companies 2 agent-native · 24 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite minimal 14.2
Agent-Readiness human-only 6.1

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Canaan Partners has 341 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 341 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Lev, Coda Project, Heymilo, Tropic, Fireflies Ai.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Lev 16 APIs 69.9 Coda Project 32 APIs 66.2
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Heymilo 18 APIs 58.5 Tropic 5 APIs 57.3 Fireflies Ai 1 API 56.3
Developing 21 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Arcade 11 APIs 55.0 Artie 9 APIs 54.4 Paxos 43 APIs 54.1 Opensky 4 APIs 53.7 Clevertap 12 APIs 53.2 Even Financial 6 APIs 52.0 Intralinks 8 APIs 51.3 Ondemand 6 APIs 49.6 Appsmith 3 APIs 49.4 Bird 10 APIs 48.6 Binarly 20 APIs 48.5 Bond 9 APIs 48.2 Dexcom 7 APIs 48.2 Dragos 4 APIs 47.3 Astra 1 API 47.0 Active Network 2 APIs 46.6 Rapidata 55 APIs 46.6 Boostup 1 API 46.4 Capella Space 9 APIs 45.7 Jina Ai 4 APIs 45.1 Snyk 48 APIs 42.7
Thin 25 Limited public surface area
Cargomatic 5 APIs 41.9 Instacart 10 APIs 41.7 Mindtickle 2 APIs 41.1 Highrise 7 APIs 40.8 Kustomer 2 APIs 40.5 Edge Impulse 34 APIs 40.2 Switchfly 3 APIs 39.2 Mosey 12 APIs 38.3 Alkymi 1 API 37.5 Workmotion 7 APIs 36.7 Coterie 6 APIs 35.9 Ambra Health 10 APIs 34.5 Clutch 1 API 33.8 Perimeterx 3 APIs 32.8 Archipelago 1 API 32.3 Enterpret 32.2 Earnipay 13 APIs 32.1 Commonwealth 31.3 Contentsquare 6 APIs 31.1 Skale Labs 1 API 30.2 Glooko 29.8 Leanplum 7 APIs 29.6 Nivoda 2 APIs 29.1 Canopy 1 API 28.4 Altimate 28.1
Emerging 65 Early or largely undocumented
Cynomi 1 API 27.8 Ladder 1 API 26.8 Openart 1 API 26.8 Groundwork Open Source 8 APIs 26.3 Climacell 24.0 On24 1 API 23.6 Provenance 1 API 23.6 Commerce One 1 API 23.4 Embroker 22.9 Tubular Labs 1 API 22.9 Blurb 1 API 22.8 Sageox 23 APIs 22.7 Doorstep 21.8 Forte 21.3 Kin Euphorics 1 API 21.2 Cardlytics 20.9 Fxlabs 20.7 Tari 1 API 20.4 Joor 1 API 19.2 Successfactors 1 API 19.2 Lily Ai 19.1 Cuyana 18.2 Instrumental 1 API 18.1 Urbansitter 17.8 Leap To Win Technologies Private 1 API 17.5 Moviepass 17.3 Ntopology 16.9 Page 16.5 Countable 16.3 Genome Medical 16.1 Lending Club 16.0 Liveu 15.8 Amicus Therapeutics 15.6 Tia 15.6 Aceiss 15.5 Wiselayer 15.4 Komprise 15.3 Prax Health 15.3 Actualyzeai 15.2 Brigit 15.2 Italic 15.2 Join 15.2 Plixi 15.2 Solvely Ai 15.2 Zibo 15.1 The Meta 15.0 Ro 14.4 Players Lounge 14.3 Taptap Send 14.3 Aeva 14.2 C Infinity 14.1 Savvy 14.1 Arbor 14.0 Hugo 14.0 Peer39 13.9 Bravo Sierra 13.8 Renofi 13.8 Compstak 13.7 Goodwin 13.7 Sidechat 13.7 Valid 13.7 Bellhops 13.1 Curtsy 13.1 Novee Security 13.1 Ollie 13.1
Minimal 225 Almost no public developer surface
Zmanda 12.9 Day One Biopharmaceuticals 12.8 Liquidia 12.8 Execthread 12.7 On Deck 12.7 Reflex Careers 12.7 Gen G 12.5 Ideaya Biosciences 12.5 World View 12.4 Dusty Robotics 12.3 Onefinestay 12.3 Mira 12.2 Berkshire Grey 12.1 Nagish 11.9 Withco 11.9 Basebuild 11.8 Capstone Turbine 11.8 Kickpay 11.8 Journey Medidtation 11.6 Diligent Robotics 11.4 Field Ai 11.3 Aer Therapeutics 11.2 Data Sciences International 11.2 Esperion Therapeutics 11.2 Transposon Therapeutics 11.2 Tyra 11.2 Papa 10.9 Hermeus 10.8 Protagonist Therapeutics 10.8 Qlaris Bio 10.8 Reibus 10.8 Sounding Board 10.8 Onramp Payments 10.6 Apartment List 10.5 Arvinas 10.5 Kabam 10.5 Partiful 10.5 Quantum Circuits 10.5 Kepler Communications 10.4 Rallybio 10.4 Unchained Labs 10.4 Iterum Therapeutics 10.1 Webloyalty 10.1 Actio Biosciences 9.7 Alterome Therapeutics 9.7 Vedana Therapeutics 9.6 Endogastric Solutions 9.3 Alterego 9.2 Rondo Therapeutics 9.2 Silverrail 9.1 Turo 9.1 Agomab Therapeutics 9.0 Autobahn Therapeutics 9.0 Rally Network 1 API 8.9 Istante 8.7 Grey Wolf Therapeutics 8.4 Ramre 8.3 Truefort 8.3 Apex Ai 8.2 Diffusion 8.0 Draig Therapeutics 8.0 Truveris 7.9 Synthekine 7.5 Acesion Pharma 7.2 Catalym 7.1 Shopkeep 7.0 Premier Laboratory Services 6.9 Xirrus 6.9 Doubleclick 6.7 Attotude 6.6 Arrakis Therapeutics 6.5 Cytomx 6.5 Axcelius I Ii 6.3 Cerexa 6.3 Bzaar 6.1 The Realreal 6.1 Antiva Biosciences 5.7 Helium 1 API 5.7 Marvin 5.7 Mschf Product Studio 5.7 Primesense 5.7 Twenty20 5.7 Virtuoso Therapeutics 5.7 Aireye 5.4 Chimerix 5.4 Fla 5.4 Hyalex Orthopaedics 5.4 Labrys Biologics 5.4 Marinus Pharmaceuticals 5.4 Nocion 5.4 Orapharma 5.4 Orthocon 5.4 Relievant Medsystems 5.4 Trishula Therapeutics 5.4 Uniform Teeth 5.4 Aim Security 5.0 Associated Content 5.0 Atheromed 5.0 Axis Security 5.0 Beckon 5.0 Bev 5.0 Bharat Matrimony 5.0 Bumblebee Spaces 5.0 Bumped 5.0 Buzzer 5.0 Coinmine 5.0 Concord Communications 5.0 Dexterra 5.0 Ebates 5.0 Elevation Pharmaceuticals 5.0 Enpirion 5.0 Ephemeral 5.0 Estamp 5.0 Everdream 5.0 Frame 5.0 Genvec 5.0 Grokstyle 5.0 Habeas 5.0 Homeis 5.0 Id Analytics 5.0 Instante 5.0 International Network Services 5.0 Intraware 5.0 Intrepedia Bio 5.0 Iprint 5.0 Jumpcut 5.0 Kalpana 5.0 Kinecta 5.0 Lancope 5.0 Manime 5.0 Metacloud 5.0 Mynd 5.0 Network Engines 5.0 Normunity 5.0 Novira Therapeutics 5.0 Orchard 5.0 Rightpoint 5.0 Rocketrip 5.0 Safire 5.0 Sample6 5.0 Sandforce 5.0 Sensage 5.0 Shara 5.0 Silicon Optix 5.0 Skybox Imaging 5.0 Soasta 5.0 Superplastic 5.0 Tacit 5.0 Tallan 5.0 Telaria 5.0 The Inside 5.0 Unifi 5.0 Uroam 5.0 Voyence 5.0 Vue 5.0 Zugata 5.0 Alphina Therapeutics 4.6 Abyrx 4.3 Advanced Biohealing 4.3 Alsius 4.3 Apieron 4.3 Argon 4.3 Bipar Sciences 4.3 Calibra Medical 4.3 Calixa Therapeutics 4.3 Capmac 4.3 Cayena 4.3 Cell Pathways 4.3 Cellular Research 4.3 Civitas Therapeutics 4.3 Combinatorx 4.3 Copper Mountain Network 4.3 Cortina Systems 4.3 Dermira 4.3 Drivetime 4.3 Durata Therapeutics 4.3 Echopass 4.3 Envisia 4.3 Eon Laboratories 4.3 Halda Therapeutics 4.3 Immunicon 4.3 Intellicare 4.3 Latitude Communications 4.3 Matrix Pharmaceutical 4.3 Nextcure 4.3 Oni Systems 4.3 Onkos Surgical 4.3 Pathios Therapeutics 4.3 Peninsula Pharmaceuticals 4.3 Pozen 4.3 Revivant 4.3 Semnur Pharmaceuticals 4.3 Thirtyfivebio 4.3 Tizona Therapeutics 4.3 Tobira Therapeutics 4.3 Transcend Medical 4.3 Vima Therapeutics 4.3 Vivace Therapeutics 4.3 Circleup 4.1 Interact Commerce 4.1 Mariner Health 4.1 Northstar Neuroscience 4.1 Onesource Services 4.1 Praecis Pharmaceuticals 4.1 Radd Pharmaceuticals 4.1 Reactive Biosciences 4.1 Spinifex Pharmaceuticals 4.1 Triton Therapeutics 4.1 Crosslogix 3.2 Emissary 3.2 Jobdirect 3.2 Macheye 3.2 Match 3.2 Mightytv 3.2 Mobilitec 3.2 Oncolinea 3.2 Oncoresponse 3.2 Podz 3.2 Requantive 3.2 Spectrian 3.2 Suiza Foods 3.2 Victorious 3.2 Virsto 3.2 Visigenic 3.2 Visiprise 3.2

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  Canaan Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1987 as a
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  seed through Series A across a roughly 60/40 split between technology and
  healthcare. On the technology side Canaan funds developer tools, security,
  infrastructure, fintech, consumer, AI, and frontier/deep-tech companies; on
  the healthcare side it specializes in de novo biotech creation, therapeutics,
  and medical devices. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with offices in
  San Francisco, Menlo Park, and New York City, Canaan has raised roughly $7
  billion across 13 funds and is actively deploying Fund XIII. Over its 37-year
  history the firm reports a track record of 73 IPOs and 152 M&A exits, with
  notable investments including Instacart, LendingClub, The RealReal, DexCom,
  Match.com, Snyk, Turo, Cardlytics, and Day One Biopharmaceuticals.
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