The company has raised a seed round from Visionnaire Ventures, Morado Venture Partners, Heroic Ventures and AME Cloud Ventures.
Visionnaire Ventures, Morado Venture Partners, Heroic Ventures and AME Cloud Ventures have all provided seed capital to Canvas, though the actual round size has yet to be disclosed.
The company has raised $2.7 million in seed funding led by Matt Robinson of Heroic Ventures, with participation from Susan Lyne and Nisha Dua of BBG Ventures as well as Jeff Weiner.
Labdoor just closed on $3.4 million in Series A funding led by Floodgate, with participation from Correlation Ventures, Fyrfly, Zeno Ventures, Heroic VC, and Seabed VC.
If there was anything heroic in this venture, the heroism was borne, as so often, by the spouse.
Curiously I know many people who have the leadership courage to engage in risky ventures, heroic quests, and brave actions and yet lack the relationship courage to initiate and engage in meaningful conversations with the people who matter most to them - family members, business partners, employees, investors, and others.
In contrast, they describe their biomedical research ventures in heroic terms reminiscent of science-fiction plots, where the protagonist saves humanity from destruction through technological wizardry.
And it is presented in its word-for-word entirety over the course of nearly seven hours by Elevator Repair Service, a heroic company that dares to venture into literary realms where theater artists are known to sink and drown.
The Southern Cross Expedition, officially known as the British Antarctic Expedition 1898 1900, was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and the forerunner of the more celebrated journeys of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
