# Canaan Partners

> Canaan Partners's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Fireflies.AI Corp., Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.), Jina AI (Elastic) and The Tomorrow Companies Inc., with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

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Venture firm.

Website: https://www.canaan.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Fireflies.AI Corp.**, Seed, October 2019, Series A, May 2021, led a round
  - [Fireflies.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fireflies.md), graded C, 60.7/100
  - Source: https://fireflies.ai/blog/fireflies-ai-raises-5-million-round
- **Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.)**, Series E, May 2021, Series F, July 2022, through Canaan
  - [Heap](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/heap.md), graded D, 53.1/100
  - Source: https://contentsquare.com/press/contentsquare-500m-series-e-investment/
- **Jina AI (Elastic)**, Series A, November 2021, led a round
  - [Jina Embeddings and Reranker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-embeddings.md), graded C, 61/100
  - [jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.md), graded D, 50.2/100
  - [Jina Reader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader.md), graded E, 45.3/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/22/jina-ai-raises-30m-for-its-for-its-neural-search-platform/
- **The Tomorrow Companies Inc.**, Series B, October 2018, Series E, June 2023, through Canaan
  - [Tomorrow.io Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomorrow-io.md), graded D, 51.5/100
  - Source: https://www.tomorrow.io/blog/tomorrow-io-raises-45-million-to-map-all-of-the-worlds-microweather/

## Where they invest

- Embeddings & rerankers, 2
- Meeting capture & meeting infrastructure, 1
- Product analytics & experimentation, 1
- Web scraping & crawling, 1
- Weather & climate data, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Han Xiao](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/han-xiao/), Jina AI (Elastic)
- [Shimon Elkabetz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shimon-elkabetz/), The Tomorrow Companies Inc.
- [Rei Goffer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rei-goffer/), The Tomorrow Companies Inc.
- [Itai Zlotnik](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/itai-zlotnik/), The Tomorrow Companies Inc.

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Canaan Partners invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Fireflies.AI Corp., Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.), Jina AI (Elastic) and The Tomorrow Companies Inc. backed by Canaan Partners.

### How are Canaan Partners's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Fireflies.ai (C, 60.7), Heap (D, 53.1), Jina Embeddings and Reranker (C, 61), jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small (D, 50.2), Jina Reader (E, 45.3) and Tomorrow.io Weather API (D, 51.5).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source. An investor isn't a sign of quality, and nobody can pay to be listed or to change a grade. To correct something or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.

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