Deepak Kamra is a General Partner at Canaan Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most enduring venture capitalists with over 33 years at a single firm. An Indian immigrant who grew up in Canada, he has backed landmark companies including DoubleClick (acquired by Google), Match.com, SuccessFactors (acquired by SAP), Skybox Imaging (acquired by Google for $500M), and ON24 (IPO at ~$3B in 2021 after a 22-year journey from a $12M investment). He is a passionate immigration advocate who has testified before Congress, a microfinance champion funding entrepreneurs in the Global South, a bass guitarist, avid cyclist, and world traveler who has visited over 80 countries.
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.