Canaan Partners

Founded in 1987, Canaan Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. With over $5 billion under management, the firm invests in early-stage technology and healthcare companies worldwide.

Brent Ahrens

General Partner

Nandu Anilal

Investor

John Balen

General Partner

Joydeep Bhattacharyya

General Partner

Stephen Bloch

General Partner

Laura Chau

General Partner - East Coast

Colleen Cuffaro

Partner

Brendan Dickinson

General Partner

Peter Farina

Investor

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka

Partner

Julie Grant

General Partner

Stephen Green

Venture Partner

Wende Hutton

General Partner

Maha Ibrahim

General Partner

Deepak Kamra

General Partner

Nina Kjellson

General Partner

Ehud Levy

Co-Founder and General Partner, Canaan Partners Israel

Mark Mangiola

Venture Partner

Jared Newman

Investor

John Pacifico

General Partner

Julie Papanek

Partner

Hootan Rashidifard

Principal

Guy Russo

General Partner

Uwe Schoenbeck

Venture Partner

Tim Shannon

General Partner

Hrach Simonian

General Partner

Dana Warren

Venture Partner, East Coast

Bob Williams

Venture Partner

Eric Young

Partner

Past deals in Speech Recognition

Heymilo

Seed Round in 2025
Heymilo is a technology company that specializes in developing generative AI-powered voice agent platforms. Their primary product is a voice-based screening tool designed to streamline the hiring process for businesses. The platform conducts dynamic two-way conversations with job candidates, assessing their skills, communication abilities, and cultural fit. This enables clients to save time, reduce unconscious bias, and make more informed hiring decisions.

Heymilo

Seed Round in 2024
Heymilo is a technology company that specializes in developing generative AI-powered voice agent platforms. Their primary product is a voice-based screening tool designed to streamline the hiring process for businesses. The platform conducts dynamic two-way conversations with job candidates, assessing their skills, communication abilities, and cultural fit. This enables clients to save time, reduce unconscious bias, and make more informed hiring decisions.

Fireflies.ai

Series A in 2021
Fireflies.ai offers an AI-powered platform for recording, transcribing, and analyzing meetings to create searchable notes and concise bullet-point summaries. The system captures conversations across business, education, and remote-work contexts and integrates with major web-conferencing tools and various business applications to automatically generate transcripts, take notes, and extract key points and action items from each call.

Fireflies.ai

Seed Round in 2019
Fireflies.ai offers an AI-powered platform for recording, transcribing, and analyzing meetings to create searchable notes and concise bullet-point summaries. The system captures conversations across business, education, and remote-work contexts and integrates with major web-conferencing tools and various business applications to automatically generate transcripts, take notes, and extract key points and action items from each call.

Resemble AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2019, Resemble AI specializes in developing speech-generating technology. Using proprietary deep-learning models, they create realistic voice clones for various applications, serving primarily the entertainment sector and marketing agencies. Their solutions enable real-time speech-to-speech transformation with granular control over inflections and intonations.
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