Canonical — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$1.5M Checks)
Canonical is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California investing in Other, AI / ML, Fintech. The firm typically writes $500K–$1.5M checks and has 16 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$1.5M
- Portfolio
- 16 companies on record
- Partners
- 2 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, AI / ML, Fintech, Developer Tools
- HQ
- San Francisco, California
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-09-02
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $1.5M
16+ companies
2 partners
Investment Thesis
Early-stage firm led by Anand Iyer backing infrastructure, tools, and protocol primitives at the intersection of AI, crypto, agent/authorization rails — foundational infrastructure and coordination layers.
How Canonical invests
Canonical is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, AI / ML, Fintech, Developer Tools.
Canonical typically writes checks of $500K–$1.5M per investment.
Canonical has backed 16 companies in our records, including AEO Readiness, Capital Call Planner, Data Centers & Neoclouds.
Partners & Team
Anthony Avedissian is a Partner at Canonical. He previously co-founded Seed Club Ventures, a $25M early-stage venture fund focused on AI and decentralized infrastructure. Anthony has made 70+ pre-seed and seed stage investments across AI, Robotics, Energy, and Crypto. Earlier in his career, Anthony was an investor at Amber Capital, a $2B activist hedge fund, where he focused on large cap public energy and telecoms companies. He later founded Anteo Health, taking the company from zero to one. His hands-on experience as a founder and investor drives his passion for supporting technical founders building transformative companies. Anthony studied at Imperial College London and University of York.
A founder-turned-investor and the Managing Partner of Canonical, an early stage venture firm based in San Francisco. He previously was the CEO & Co-founder of Trusted, scaling it through fundraising and growth before its acquisition in 2018 by a public company, Care. Care & Trusted were subsequently acquired by IAC in 2020. A Silicon Valley veteran, Anand has also been a Venture Partner at Pear and Lightspeed, investing in AI and blockchain infrastructure. Earlier in his career, he built developer platforms at Microsoft, including Windows, Phone, and Azure. Exposed to Bitcoin in 2012, he's been investing in frontier tech for over a decade. His founder background and technical DNA gives him an edge in helping technical teams go from zero to one. Anand has a degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (16)
Other
AEO Readiness
Capital Call Planner
Data Centers & Neoclouds
Decentralized AI
Dilution Lab
Fund Modeler
Groundwork
Lookalike Finder
Physical AI & Robotics
Power Law Lab
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