Welcome to our News page! You’ll find press coverage for Canvas, as well as our portfolio companies, below. It is only a smattering of the press our community has generated. You’ll find more news by following us on Twitter @CanvasVC or the Canvas Ventures Facebook page.
Skyflow Raises $17.5 Million Series A for Data Privacy API
Fin-tech, health-tech and enterprises moving to the cloud drive rapid adoption of Skyflow
Published in BusinessWire/by admin
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Skyflow raises $17.5 million to bring its data privacy API to more businesses
Privacy-focused API platform Skyflow has raised $17.5 million in a series A round of funding led by Canvas Ventures.
Published in VentureBeat/by admin
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Skyflow raises $17.5M more to help companies protect your personal data
The company disclosed a new investment worth $17.5 million on Tuesday. The new round, a Series A, was led by Canvas Ventures.
Published in TechCrunch/by admin
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Why I Invested in Skyflow
Small wonder that when a stunning elegant solution to this massive data-privacy problem presented itself in the form of Skyflow, I made the single biggest seed stage bet I’ve ever made.
Published in Foundation Capital/by admin

Luminar CEO: We’re absolutely in this for the long run
Yahoo Finance’s Julie Hyman, Brian Sozzi, and Myles Udland speak with Luminar Technologies CEO Austin Russell about the company’s market debut today.
Published in Yahoo Finance/by admin
Meet The World’s Newest—And Youngest—Self-Made Billionaire: Luminar’s Austin Russell
The race to commercialize self-driving car technology has attracted billions of dollars of investment but not created many billionaires. Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell is among the rare exceptions.
Published in Forbes/by admin
Luminar Technologies becomes public company as lidar race builds
Luminar Technologies Inc started trading as a public company on Thursday under the ticker symbol LAZR, marking the second Silicon Valley firm to go public while working to deliver a key sensor for self-driving cars.
Published in Reuters/by admin

Luminar going public makes 25-year-old Austin Russell one of world’s first, and youngest, self-driving billionaires
The lidar sensing technology company works with major automakers as well as Intel’s Mobileye.
Published in CNBC/by admin

Luminar Rises in Market Debut, Making 25-Year-Old Founder a Billionaire
Luminar Technologies Inc., which produces sensor technology for self-driving cars, started trading publicly Thursday and made its 25-year-old founder and chief executive a billionaire.
Published in The Wall Street Journal/by admin

Real Autonomy Video from Luminar
With a vision to make autonomous transportation safe and ubiquitous, Luminar is enabling the world’s first autonomous solutions for automotive series production in passenger vehicles and commercial trucks.
Published in YouTube/by admin

Luminar Inks Deal To Sell Laser Sensors To Intel’s Mobileye Ahead Of Nasdaq Listing
Luminar, a fast-growing maker of laser lidar sensors that help self-driving cars see the world, has landed a deal to supply its high-tech devices to Intel’s Mobileye that boosts potential future revenue as the young company prepares for a Nasdaq listing.
Published in Forbes/by admin

The Mindset of a Data Leader
Data is exploding, but the current data management workflow is broken across organizations large and small.
Published in Medium/by admin
Luminar Increases Guidance; Accelerating Deals
New deals and increased volume lead to estimated $1.3B Order Book by year end, up from $1B target
Published in BusinessWire/by admin

Our Investment in FOSSA
The company uniquely offers universal, real-time, detailed visibility into open source inventory with a state-of-the-art policy engine to make sure compliance departments are up to speed on all their open source usage.
Published in Medium/by admin
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Introducing Open Source Security Management at Enterprise Scale
The explosive adoption of open source has meant that companies are having to take open source risk assessment and mitigation seriously.
Published in Fossa/by admin
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The Third-Party API Economy
Starting an API-first company bringing your users superpowers?
Published in Medium/by admin
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The Decline In Millennial Health Needs To Be Addressed
The belief that younger generations are generally shielded from the burdens of poor health is proving to be a myth with dire consequences.
Published in Forbes/by admin

CVS Health Selects Vida Health’s Weight Loss+ Program for Inclusion in Its Point Solutions Management Offering
Vida’s comprehensive digital weight loss program achieves best-in-class outcomes
Published in Yahoo! Finance/by admin
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How Eat24 Scaled To $700 Million Gross Revenue In 5 Years
A Q&A with Mike Ghaffary & Grace Isford of Canvas Ventures
Published in Medium/by admin

Our Investment in Airvet
Unlike any of the other pet telehealth platforms on the market, Airvet approaches the market with a philosophical difference to put pets and pet-owners first. Pet health is also relatively underpenetrated in telehealth and telemedicine today.
Published in Medium/by admin

Airvet, a telehealth veterinary platform, just clawed its way to a $14 million Series A round
Today, the company is announcing $14 million in Series A funding led by Canvas Ventures, with participation by e.ventures, Burst Capital, Starting Line, TrueSight Ventures, Hawke Ventures and Bracket Capital, as well as individual investors.
Published in TechCrunch/by admin

Airvet obtains $14 million in investor funding
The telemedicine app maker has 2,700 veterinarian uses as demand for virtual care spikes amid public health concerns.
Published in Today's Veterinary Medicine/by admin

Mike Ghaffary, Partner at Canvas Ventures, speaking at online Marketplace Conference
Join us ONLINE for our annual Marketplace Conference on May 27 & 28, 2020 that unites marketplace founders, VCs, and subject matter experts to discuss the present and the future of marketplaces and network effects. Our guests have the chance to join us for thought leadership on fundraising, growth hacking and strategy, legal issues and more, as well as 1:1 access and networking with top VCs.
Published in The Marketplace Conference/by admin

[PODCAST] Crisis Coverage with Grace Isford – GTM Playbook; Building a Career in VC; Societal Challenges and Opportunities Post-COVID; and a Comprehensive Analysis of Successful GPs and Venture Investments
Grace Isford of Canvas Ventures joins Nick on a special Crisis Coverage installment to discuss the GTM Playbook; Building a Career in VC; Societal Challenges and Opportunities Post-COVID; and a Comprehensive Analysis of Successful GPs and Venture Investments.
Published in The Full Ratchet/by admin
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BusinessWire | Skyflow Raises $17.5 Million Series A for Data Privacy API
VentureBeat | Skyflow raises $17.5 million to bring its data privacy API to more businesses
TechCrunch | Skyflow raises $17.5M more to help companies protect your personal data
Foundation Capital | Why I Invested in Skyflow
Yahoo Finance | Luminar CEO: We’re absolutely in this for the long run
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