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Investor profile

Hrach Simonian

General Partner, Canaan Partners

About

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.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Sectors
BioTech
Enterprise
Consumer
FinTech
Deeptech
Hardware

Investment details

Avg check size$1M - $20M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
Africa
LatAm
India
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Canada
Israel
ANZ
MENA