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Canonical

Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America

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Canonical is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that writes first checks of $500K to $1.5M into deeply technical founders. It focuses on infrastructure for a post-AGI world and also builds free interactive tools for founders, GPs, and LPs.

Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintech

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Canonical lists 11 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Fintech (19%) and Enterprise Software (14%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Archetype, Big Brain Holdings and Pragma Ventures.

No funding round on record names Canonical yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.

Round figures show recent activity, not Canonical's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 11. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.

Investment themes

share of its checked companies

AI & Machine Learning 33%Fintech 19%Enterprise Software 14%Crypto & Web3 10%Industrial & Manufacturing 10%Space & Defense 5%Cybersecurity 5%Real Estate & Construction 5%

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Investment themes

	This firm	All checked companies
AI & Machine Learning	33%	18%
Fintech	19%	12%
Enterprise Software	14%	8%
Crypto & Web3	10%	1%
Industrial & Manufacturing	10%	7%
Space & Defense	5%	3%
Cybersecurity	5%	4%
Real Estate & Construction	5%	3%

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies

Archetype 3Big Brain Holdings 2Pragma Ventures 2Samsung NEXT 2Acrew Capital 1Alliance DAO 1Alloy Fund 1Andreessen Horowitz 1

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Co-investors

	Share
Archetype	3
Big Brain Holdings	2
Pragma Ventures	2
Samsung NEXT	2
Acrew Capital	1
Alliance DAO	1
Alloy Fund	1
Andreessen Horowitz	1

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Canonical compared with all firms

Measure	Percentile of all firms	Value
Portfolio size	27th	11 companies
Recent activity	46th	0 rounds in 12 months
Early stage	54th	0% of entries at pre-seed or seed
Evidence	52th	0% of companies confirmed by a round
Sector focus	62th	33% in its largest sector
Reach	20th	1 country

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portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

vs Archetype3 shared companies→vs Big Brain Holdings2 shared companies→vs Pragma Ventures2 shared companies→vs Samsung NEXT2 shared companies→vs Acrew Capital1 shared company→vs Alliance DAO1 shared company→

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Portfolio

11 companies checked against their own sites

Company	What it does	Themes	First round with it	Evidence
Exoexolabs.net	Exo connects your devices into a powerful cluster for local inference and model deployment.	AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software		Portfolio page
Gensyngensyn.ai · United States	Gensyn builds AI that forecasts and improves by verifying predictions against reality	AI & Machine LearningFintech		Portfolio page
Haptichaptic.co · United States	Haptic infuses digital capabilities into wood, metal, glass and other structural materials to offer insights that improve efficiency and the bottom line.	Industrial & ManufacturingReal Estate & Construction		Portfolio page
Mestamesta.xyz · United States	Mesta provides payment infrastructure services, enabling businesses to initiate and manage global transactions via integrated fiat and blockchain-based payment rails	FintechSpace & Defense		Portfolio page
NEYONneyon.ai	NEYON provides an all-in-one software platform and physical execution layer for AI Factory deployment and operations	AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software		Portfolio page
OpenGradientopengradient.ai · United States	OpenGradient powers high-performance verifiable computing for AI, hosting models, running secure inference, and deploying agents onchain.	AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity		Portfolio page
Rainrain.xyz · United States	Rain provides a platform for companies to launch stablecoin-powered cards, manage digital dollar accounts, and move money across borders.	FintechCrypto & Web3		Portfolio page
Ritualritual.net	Ritual provides infrastructure for AI agents to run themselves, for developers everywhere.	AI & Machine LearningFintech		Portfolio page
synthefy.comsynthefy.com · United States	The company provides foundation models for structured data, allowing for predictions without task-specific training on enterprise data.	AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software		Portfolio page
Virtualsvirtuals.io	Virtuals Protocol builds infrastructure for AI agents, including identity and wallets, a marketplace for agents to hire each other, tokenization and capital markets for agents, robotics, and a governance layer.	Crypto & Web3AI & Machine Learning		Portfolio page
Glidewithglide.com	The company's webpage contains CSS styling code, but does not explicitly state what the company does.	Industrial & Manufacturing		Portfolio page

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Companies checked

11

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