Hootan Rashidifard
Principal @ Canaan Partners
New York, United States
Hootan Rashidifard is a seed investor at Canaan Partners in New York focused on Software and SaaS. Hootan Rashidifard is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hash3. He previously worked at Canaan Partners as a Principal. Hootan Rashidifard attended Northwestern University.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Hootan Rashidifard invests in
Stages Hootan Rashidifard invests in
Countries Hootan Rashidifard invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (75%)
- SaaS 1 (25%)
- Audio 1 (25%)
- Gaming 1 (25%)
- Hardware 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (50%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Tropic empowers finance and procurement teams to manage tech spending with ease. It integrates unbiased market data with spend management tools that help buyers reduce costs, boost efficiency, and maintain visibility. Their solution balances the buyer-seller dynamic, ensuring product quality drives success. | $25M / Series A / Aug 16, 2021 | ||
| Bumblebee Spaces is creating a new way to live by thinking about space in cubic feet instead of square feet. The company multiplies usable space by using modular robotics systems to store and retrieve objects in the ceiling. Combining this with AI, sensor fusion and contextual awareness, Bumblebee Spaces safely and intelligently organizes yourlife, making space for what matters. Using smart robots and an AI stack, the company increases usable space and reduce footprint by storing, managing, and retrieving objects on-demand in your ceiling. | Seed / Nov 13, 2018 | ||
| Drivetime provides an online platform designed to help users play games while they drive. It develops interactive audio games that are non-distracting and voice-driven gameplay, enabling users to play hands-free games while driving the car. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $4M / Seed / Nov 07, 2018 | ||
| Bumblebee Spaces is creating a new way to live by thinking about space in cubic feet instead of square feet. The company multiplies usable space by using modular robotics systems to store and retrieve objects in the ceiling. Combining this with AI, sensor fusion and contextual awareness, Bumblebee Spaces safely and intelligently organizes yourlife, making space for what matters. Using smart robots and an AI stack, the company increases usable space and reduce footprint by storing, managing, and retrieving objects on-demand in your ceiling. | $4.7M / Seed / Aug 17, 2018 |
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
VC In Residence
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Brendan Dickinson
General Partner
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Brenton Ahrens
General Partner
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What does Hootan Rashidifard invest in?
Hootan Rashidifard invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Audio startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 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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When did Hootan Rashidifard last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Hootan Rashidifard closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 4 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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