Canaan lands $650M for lat­est VC fund aimed at tech and drug de­vel­op­ment

Ven­ture cap­i­tal firm Canaan is out with its 13th fund as the Men­lo Park, CA-based group added $650 mil­lion to its cof­fers to bankroll more tech star­tups and cre­ate new drug de­vel­op­ers.

Canaan al­so racked up $200 mil­lion to boost ex­ist­ing com­pa­nies built out of pre­vi­ous funds. The new re­serves will like­ly be tapped in­to in the sec­ond half of this year, with his­tor­i­cal­ly about one-third of each fund go­ing to­ward biotech and the rest to­ward tech com­pa­nies, gen­er­al part­ner Tim Shan­non told End­points News.

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