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Mike Ghaffary

General Partner at Canvas Ventures, previously Yelp (VP), Eat24 (CEO), Stitcher (co-founder)

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2019

    Canvas is currently investing out of our third fund of $350 million in Series A and Series B stage companies. I focus in particular on marketplaces, commerce, proptech, and food tech. I serve on 5 boards at Canvas, including Flyhomes, Darwin Homes, and ResQ. Prior to Canvas, I invested in: Strava, Faire, CloudKitchens, Superhuman, Optimizely, and a dozen others. At Canvas, we are all former operators/founders, and I spent more than a decade building companies like Yelp, Eat24, Stitcher, TrialPay, and others.

2021

  • Board Member and Investor

    2021

    OfferFit’s AI replaces manual A/B testing.

2012

  • Investor

    2012

  • Investor

    2015

    The fastest email experience ever made

2017

  • Investor

    2017

    Investor in Faire’s seed round

2021

  • Board Member and Investor

    2021

    Restaurant software and marketplace for repairs

2019

  • Board Member and Investor

    2019

    Reinventing the home buying experience

2014 - 2020

  • Advisor and Angel Investor

    2014 - 2020

    Early angel investor and corporate development / business development advisor to Optimizely

2019 - 2020

  • Board Member and Investor

    2019 - 2020

    Reimagining home and auto insurance shopping

2014 - 2019

  • Angel Investor and Advisor

    2014 - 2019

    Angel investor and advisor to consumer and software companies including: Strava, Superhuman, Faire, Optimizely, Cambly, Padlet, Metromile, Pocket, Philz Coffee, and a handful of other Y Combinator companies.