Canaan Partners is an early stage Venture Capital firm with offices in Menlo Park, New York, and Connecticut. Founded in 1987, the firm is currently investing its tenth fund, Canaan X, a $675M vehicle raised in late 2014. With $4.2B under management, the firm is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative companies in the internet, mobile, enterprise, digital media, and health care industries.
Current Canaan portfolio companies include Lending Club (NYSE: LC), Instacart, Relay Rides, Wash.io. Kabam, The RealReal, NatureBox, Shopkeep, Cardlytics, and Soasta. Past successes include Skybox Imaging (acquired by Google), Virsto (acquired by VMWare), DoubleClick (acquired by Google), SuccessFactors (acquired by SAP), Ebates (acquired by Rakuten), Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), Prime Sense (acquired by Apple), Active Network (NYSE: ACTV), ID Analytics (acquired by LifeLock), Advanced BioHealing (acquired by Shire), and SandForce (acquired by LSI) among others.
Canaan Partners is seeking an analyst who is energetic, passionate about technology, and intellectually curious to join its Menlo Park, CA team. The analyst role is a 2-3 year position that is traditionally followed by business or graduate school or an operational role.