Paul Hsiao
Co-Founder & General Partner @ Canvas Prime
San Francisco, United States
Paul Hsiao is a Series A investor at Canvas Prime in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Paul joined forces with Rebecca Lynn and Gary Little at Canvas Ventures in 2014, with the purpose of creating the type of boutique firm he would have liked to work with as an entrepreneur himself, one where every investment is meaningful and where he can spend his time working with his founders to scale their business. At Canvas, Paul’s investmentsinclude eporta, Fluxx Labs, Kidbox, MasonHub, Flowspace, Roofstock, Shoreline Software, Skyflow, Thrive Global, Transfix, and Zola. He has also pioneered the firm’s work in co-creation— helping start new companies by match-making domain experts with market opportunity in areas ripe for disruption.A former partner at NEA, Paul spent ten years helping companies scale from garage-scale startups to IPO and acquisition. Paul found that he loved the venture business, and he had an innate curiosity to learn about how others built meaningful companies. While at NEA, he worked alongside companies including Salesforce (CRM), Tableau Software, Coursera, Spreadtrum Communications, Workday (WDAY), Upwork, Gaikai (SNE), Boingo Wireless (WIFI), SMIC, and many others. Paul is an entrepreneur at heart. He immigrated with his parents from Taipei in junior high. Contrary to his parent’s wishes for him to become a doctor, he leveraged his mechanical and biomedical engineering degrees from MIT, where he launched startup in the medical device space tackling open-heart surgery, and his MBA from HBS, where he launched a startup in the network security space called Mazu Networks. Paul financed the early days of Mazu on credit cards, camped outside of customer prospects and venture firms in minivan rentals, and got his break when he attracted financing support from Greylock, Matrix and Benchmark Capital. Mazu was a pioneer in network security built from technology developed at MIT. Early adopters of Mazu’s proprietary DDoS-security platform, which was eventually acquired by Riverbed Technology, included Yahoo, eBay and CNN, and Paul is proud to say that the engineering team and underlying software paved the foundation later for Meraki
- Total investments:
- 36
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
Last updated:
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Industries Paul Hsiao invests in
Stages Paul Hsiao invests in
Countries Paul Hsiao invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (22%)
- SaaS 5 (14%)
- E-Commerce 4 (11%)
- Logistics 3 (8%)
- Marketplace 3 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 10 (28%)
- Series B 7 (19%)
- Series C 5 (14%)
- Seed 2 (6%)
- Series D 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 18 (50%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Investments
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| Skyflow is a privacy API for sensitive data that is built on a customer data vault. Skyflow is building a secure data privacy platform fronted by an API so all this data is secure and used as promised. Skyflow’s data privacy vault makes it easy to securely manage, store, and use any kind of personally identifiable information. The compliance withPCI, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations is built in. | $27M / Series B / Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| Transfix drives modern supply chain performance with The Transfix Intelligent Freight Platform™. By bringing together AI-driven many-to-many freight matching with modern, intuitive software and best-in-class freight experts, Transfix is enabling organizations to deliver with high performance and high reliability, drive long-term strategy andcapacity planning, take empty miles off the road, and optimize their networks, at scale. | $40M / Series F / Oct 19, 2023 | ||
| Watershed Informatics catalyzes discovery by democratizing access to bioinformatics tools for biologists. It enables life sciences organizations of any size to perform mission-critical bioinformatics analyses (such as bulk, single-cell, and spatial transcriptomics; ATAC-Seq; proteomics, etc.) at an order of magnitude less cost and complexity thanexisting solutions. | $14.5M / Series A / Mar 30, 2023 | ||
| We invest in talent from Latam. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Jun 28, 2022 | ||
| Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes in a transparent and low-friction way. The company provides its clients with research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties at set prices. It enables its investors to treat their real estate investments more likestock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation, rather than researching, and buying vacant homes that need to be repaired and leased.Founded in 2015, Roofstock gets its funding from Bain Capital, Ron Conway, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, and other investment companies. It is headquartered in Oakland, California. | $240M / Series E / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
| Skyflow is a privacy API for sensitive data that is built on a customer data vault. Skyflow is building a secure data privacy platform fronted by an API so all this data is secure and used as promised. Skyflow’s data privacy vault makes it easy to securely manage, store, and use any kind of personally identifiable information. The compliance withPCI, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations is built in. | $45M / Series B / Oct 19, 2021 | ||
| Robocorp is a cloud platform for robotic process automation (RPA) and open source RPA tools. Robocorp’s RPA approach provides developers the cloud native, open-source tools to bring RPA into their organizations without the burdensome constraints of existing offerings | $21M / Series A / Jun 22, 2021 | ||
| Flowspace is the fastest and easiest way to store, manage and fulfill your inventory from over 1000 certified warehouses and fulfillment centers.Whether its 2-day shipping to your customer’s door, or managing replenishments for your retail store, only Flowspace has the technology, expertise, and scale to help you accelerate your growth andstreamline omnichannel fulfillment needs. | $31M / Series B / Mar 15, 2021 | ||
| Skyflow is a privacy API for sensitive data that is built on a customer data vault. Skyflow is building a secure data privacy platform fronted by an API so all this data is secure and used as promised. Skyflow’s data privacy vault makes it easy to securely manage, store, and use any kind of personally identifiable information. The compliance withPCI, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations is built in. | $17.5M / Series A / Dec 08, 2020 | ||
| Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes in a transparent and low-friction way. The company provides its clients with research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties at set prices. It enables its investors to treat their real estate investments more likestock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation, rather than researching, and buying vacant homes that need to be repaired and leased.Founded in 2015, Roofstock gets its funding from Bain Capital, Ron Conway, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, and other investment companies. It is headquartered in Oakland, California. | $50M / Series D / Jan 08, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Canvas Prime
Canvas Prime is an early-stage venture firm focusing on AI transforming digital health and fintech. The firm is led by Managing Director Rebecca Lynn, who has been on the Midas List five times. Canvas invests in companies at the inflection point of growth, and partners leverage their go-to-market expertise to help Series A and B companies get tothe next stage and beyond. With a background in fintech, digital health, and AI, the team at Canvas focuses on companies that solve core problems in these industries and can become billion-dollar exits. Canvas was founded in 2013, and the third fund is $350M.
Canvas Prime Contacts
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Paul Hsiao
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Bridget Odorcic
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Daniel Kjellén
Entrepreneur In Residence
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Gary Little
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Gary Morgenthaler
Senior Advisor
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What does Paul Hsiao invest in?
Paul Hsiao invests primarily in Software, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 36 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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