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Jared Newman

Vice President at Canaan

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Jared Newman is the Vice President at Canaan, with a background in venture capital and a focus on investing in various sectors including Pharmaceuticals, BioTech, and FinTech. He has successfully invested in companies like Trébol at the seed stage and has held positions at betaworks and Chartbeat before joining Canaan as a VP.

Work Experience 

  • Vice President

    2019 - Current

    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 plus years. Canaan’s focus areas include consumer tech, fintech, enterprise/cloud, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health and medtech. To learn more about our people and our portfolio, please visit www.canaan.com.

Canaan is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionaries with transformative ideas.

  • Associate

    2019 - 2019

  • Analyst

    2017 - 2019

    betaworks ventures invests with a deep interest in community and communication. We work to improve how humans interact with and through technology. Past investments include: Tumblr, Kickstarter, and GroupMe. More recent investments include Product Hunt, Medium, Dirty Lemon, Anchor, Shine, Against Gravity, and Gimlet Media.

Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.

Raised $50,950,000.00 from Notable Capital and DG VENTURES.

  • Partnerships

    2017 - 2017

    Backed by Spark Capital and Goldcrest Investments, Sidewire is the home for expert conversation online.

  • Marketing Associate

    2015 - 2016

Chartbeat tools measure and monetize website visitors' attention and engagement on page content and advertising.

Raised $39,100,000.00 from Bain Capital Credit.

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