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Hrach Simonian
Hrach Simonian is a General Partner at Canaan Partners, one of the oldest venture capital firms in the US, where he has spent nearly two decades rising from investment analyst to leading the firm's West Coast technology practice. A UCLA and Michigan-trained electrical engineer who detoured through laser physics research at Northrop Grumman before pivoting to VC via Stanford GSB, Simonian is best known for writing one of the first institutional checks into Instacart when the company was just five weeks old in 2012 - a bet that returned billions. His current portfolio spans industrial AI, autonomous robotics, advanced manufacturing software, and battery safety tech, reflecting a full-circle return to his engineering roots.
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