Bob Williams
VC In Residence @ Canaan Partners
San Francisco, United States
Bob Williams is a Series B investor at Canaan Partners in San Francisco focused on Electronics and Manufacturing. Bob Williams - Investor and Advisor @ Apisec
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Bob Williams invests in
Stages Bob Williams invests in
Countries Bob Williams invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Electronics 2 (29%)
- Manufacturing 2 (29%)
- Security 1 (14%)
- Enterprise 1 (14%)
- Data Center 1 (14%)
Stage
- Series B 2 (29%)
- Funding Round 2 (29%)
- Seed 1 (14%)
- Angel 1 (14%)
- Series C 1 (14%)
Investments
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Binarly
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Binarly is a global firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021. The company’s flagship Binarly Transparency Platform is an enterprise-class, AI-powered solution used by device manufacturers, OEMs, IBVs and product security teams to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and signs of malicious codeimplantation. Binarly’s validated remediation playbooks have significantly reduced the cost and time to respond to security exposures. Based in Los Angeles, California, Binarly brings decades of research and program analysis expertise to build solutions to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers around the world. | $10.5M / Seed / Mar 26, 2024 | |
Snooth Media
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Snooth Media is a technology-driven media company that is a leader in delivering wine, spirits, and food content to the epicurean consumer. Snooth Media, with a reach of more than 3.5 million monthly visitors, includes Snooth.com (http://www.snooth.com), the largest online wine community with over 1 million registered members. SnoothMedia is headquartered in New York City. | $1M / Angel / Jan 16, 2009 | |
NanoGram
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NanoGram Corporation develops and manufactures products for the next generation of photovoltaics, electronics and displays.A dynamic and agile nanotechnology company, NanoGram has incubated and spun out two successful companies in NeoPhotonics and NanoGram Devices. The NanoGram KK office in Tokyo, and a strategic development and manufacturingsupply relationship with Nagase & Co., Ltd / Nagase ChemteX Corporation, supports their growing presence in Japan, while the NanoGram Korea office in Seoul serves the expanding markets and opportunities in Korea. | $18.7M / Jan 18, 2006 | |
Code Green Networks
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Code Green Networks, Inc. provides data loss prevention and content security solutions for enterprises.It offers TrueDLP, a solution that provides enterprises with content monitoring and data loss protection from insider threats and accidental misuse. The company’s products include Content Inspection Appliances, which enable organizations tomonitor and control sensitive data transmitted in various network applications; and CI Agent that provides content aware data inspection, policy enforcement, and device control services, as well as delivers data loss protection for data in use on endpoint devices, such as laptops, desktops, and servers. It also offers policy-based email encryption, enabling automatic encryption of messages with sensitive data or sent to business partners; and content discovery services to locate and identify sensitive data on endpoints and servers in the network, providing visibility and audit reporting of unsecured information. In addition, the company provides centralized incident management, workflow, and remediation solutions.Its solutions enable organizations to inspect content flows across multiple protocols; detect unauthorized disclosures; enforce user-defined policies; monitor, inspect, and block WebMail and Web 2.0 transactions; encrypt email according to corporate policies; avoid costly compliance incidents; and protect their reputation.The company serves customers in the financial services, manufacturing, education, technology, government, biotechnology, and healthcare fields. | $15M / Series C / Dec 20, 2005 | |
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Code Green Networks
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Code Green Networks, Inc. provides data loss prevention and content security solutions for enterprises.It offers TrueDLP, a solution that provides enterprises with content monitoring and data loss protection from insider threats and accidental misuse. The company’s products include Content Inspection Appliances, which enable organizations tomonitor and control sensitive data transmitted in various network applications; and CI Agent that provides content aware data inspection, policy enforcement, and device control services, as well as delivers data loss protection for data in use on endpoint devices, such as laptops, desktops, and servers. It also offers policy-based email encryption, enabling automatic encryption of messages with sensitive data or sent to business partners; and content discovery services to locate and identify sensitive data on endpoints and servers in the network, providing visibility and audit reporting of unsecured information. In addition, the company provides centralized incident management, workflow, and remediation solutions.Its solutions enable organizations to inspect content flows across multiple protocols; detect unauthorized disclosures; enforce user-defined policies; monitor, inspect, and block WebMail and Web 2.0 transactions; encrypt email according to corporate policies; avoid costly compliance incidents; and protect their reputation.The company serves customers in the financial services, manufacturing, education, technology, government, biotechnology, and healthcare fields. | $15M / Series B / Jan 01, 2005 | |
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NanoGram
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NanoGram Corporation develops and manufactures products for the next generation of photovoltaics, electronics and displays.A dynamic and agile nanotechnology company, NanoGram has incubated and spun out two successful companies in NeoPhotonics and NanoGram Devices. The NanoGram KK office in Tokyo, and a strategic development and manufacturingsupply relationship with Nagase & Co., Ltd / Nagase ChemteX Corporation, supports their growing presence in Japan, while the NanoGram Korea office in Seoul serves the expanding markets and opportunities in Korea. | $7M / Series B / Jun 01, 2004 | |
NeoPhotonics
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NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve avariety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers |
Co-Investors
About Canaan Partners
Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud,marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.
Canaan Partners Contacts
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Deepak Kamra
General Partner
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Peter Farina
Executive in Residence
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Bob Williams
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Brendan Dickinson
General Partner
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Brenton Ahrens
General Partner
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What does Bob Williams invest in?
Bob Williams invests primarily in Electronics, Manufacturing and Security startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Bob Williams closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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