# Brendan Dickinson

> Brendan Dickinson is a Series A investor at Canaan Partners backing FinTech. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 52%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-dickinson-3b956ba
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bdickins

Brendan Dickinson is a General Partner at Canaan.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$41M |
| Series A | $5M–$16M |
| Series B | $28M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 10 | 43% |
| Financial Services | 8 | 35% |
| Finance | 3 | 13% |
| Payments | 3 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 52% |
| Seed | 4 | 17% |
| Series B | 3 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 43% |
| Brazil | 2 | 9% |
| Mexico | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Journey Live | Journey is a simple meditation practice designed for the modern world, providing on-demand and live-streamed meditation courses.Journey was created to share meditation in a way that all people could relate to, wherever they are in life. It has created a simple yet powerful technique that could appeal to a large-scale audience, changing a lot ofpeople’s lives. It takes a step beyond meditation by introducing six simple yet powerful Life Lessons.Founded in 2015 by Stephen Sokoler, Journey Meditation is headquartered in New York. | $8M | Series A | Jul 25, 2025 |  |
| Wise Layer | WiseLayer makes AI-powered digital workers for finance and accounting teams.It's AI digital workforce includes: - Angela, the AI agent for Accruals & Rev Rec (hire her at www.accruals.ai) - Dennis, the AI agent for Discrepancies & Financial Anomalies (hire him at www.discrepancies.ai) - … with the 4 newest AI agents eachspecializingin the following tasks: (1) bank reconciliations, (2) fixed asset depreciation & amortization, (3) lease accounting, and (4) prepaid expenses. | $7.5M | Seed | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| WiseLayer | AI that increases profitability (EBIT) by finding & fixing financial issues & discrepancies in minutes | $41M | Seed | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Quantum Circuits | Quantum Circuits, Inc. (QCI) is a private venture founded in late 2015. QCI’s long-term goal is to develop, manufacture, and sell the first practical and useful quantum computers based on superconducting devices. Along the way to building a quantum computer, QCI will commercialize the components, devices, and software that will accelerate basicresearch and enable the scaling of quantum computing.“Quantum circuits” has a double meaning. First, the name indicates that QCI is focusing on the quantum circuit model for quantum computation, which enables universal and fault-tolerant operations using error correction. Second, our technology relies on quantum circuits – electrical devices using superconducting Josephson junctions that can act as solid-state quantum bits, or qubits.QCI was founded by three scientists from the Department of Applied Physics at Yale University: Michel Devoret, Luigi Frunzio, and Robert Schoelkopf. They are world-leading experts in quantum devices and quantum information processing with solid-state devices, with a decades-long record of innovation in new devices, techniques, and fundamental concepts. Their group has produced many scientific firsts, including the development of a “quantum bus” for entangling qubits with wires, the first implementation of a quantum algorithm with a solid-state device, and the demonstration of solid-state qubits with scalable levels of coherence. | $60M | Series B | May 01, 2024 |  |
| Marvin. | Marvin is a B2B fintech that empowers industries selling to retail by transforming how they manage and mitigate credit risk. By using credit card receivables as collateral for trade credit, our solution provides a modern alternative to outdated Trade Credit Insurance, offering simplicity, flexibility, and peace of mind. | $15M | Series A | May 25, 2022 |  |
| RenoFi | RenoFi Loans use the after renovation value instead of your home's current value, enabling you to borrow the most money at the lowest rates. RenoFi is not a lender, rather we’ve partnered with lenders who offer RenoFi Loans. These lenders leverage RenoFi's technology platform to seamlessly offer RenoFi Loans. | $14M | Series A | Apr 04, 2022 |  |
| Earnipay | Earnipay enables employers to offer employees access to their earned salaries instantly at any time without making changes to their existing payment process. | $4M | Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Canopy | Canopy’s modern loan management and servicing platform helps Fintechs and brands service customer accounts through automations and APIs to help improve borrower repayment rates, increase net promoter scores, and decrease the cost of servicing for lending and credit card products. | $15M | Series A | Aug 09, 2021 |  |
| Clara | End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America. | $5M | Series A | Jul 21, 2021 |  |
| Clara | Clara is a spending management platform for companies in Latin America. Their end-to-end solution includes their locally-issued corporate cards, Bill Pay, financing solutions, and their software platform used by companies across the region.The platform includes features like AI-driven insights to identify cost-saving opportunities, such asdetecting duplicate subscriptions and monitoring spending patterns. This functionality aims to enhance financial decision-making and operational efficiency for its users. | $5M | Series A | Jul 21, 2021 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nyca Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nycapartners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arabangel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bee Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [F-Prime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f-prime-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Canaan Partners

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Canaan Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Deepak Kamra | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepak-kamra |
| Bob Williams | VC In Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-williams |
| Brendan Dickinson | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brendan-dickinson |
| Brenton Ahrens | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brent-ahrens |
| Byron Ling | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/byron-ling |

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## FAQ

### What does Brendan Dickinson invest in?

Brendan Dickinson invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Brendan Dickinson's check size?

Brendan Dickinson typically joins rounds of $4M–$41M at Seed, $5M–$16M at Series A and $28M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Brendan Dickinson participates in.

### When did Brendan Dickinson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brendan Dickinson closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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