Hrach Simonian is an engineer-turned-investor at Canaan Partners who applies his deep hardware and physics background to evaluate complex technical products, and helped build out the firm's West Coast presence early in his tenure. He has a distinctive focus on marketplace elements across both consumer and enterprise investments, repeatedly backing companies that make fragmented markets more efficient like Instacart where he serves as a board member, and is frequently sought out by media as Canaan's voice on logistics and industrial supply chains. Hrach Simonian is an engineer-turned-investor at Canaan Partners who applies his deep hardware and physics background to evaluate complex technical products, and helped build out the firm's West Coast presence early in his tenure. He has a distinctive focus on marketplace elements across both consumer and enterprise investments, repeatedly backing companies that make fragmented markets more efficient like Instacart where he serves as a board member, and is frequently sought out by media as Canaan's voice on logistics and industrial supply chains.