Rebecca is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Canvas Prime where she leads Series A investments in Fintech, Digital Health, and AI. Rebecca has been named to the Forbes Midas List five years running, a Woman to Watch: Senior Deal Maker by the Wall Street Journal, and a Top Woman VC by the New York Times.
Rebecca’s passion lies in working closely with early-stage founders, helping them refine their product market fit and expand their go-to-market strategy. She excels in guiding companies to discover new channels for growth and identifying critical hires that propel startups to the next inflection point. Rebecca’s experience stems from early work at Procter & Gamble, the gold standard for consumer and brand marketing with an international lens. Today, the way in which consumers interact with a product or service is the number one metric that drives Rebecca’s investment decisions.
Rebecca brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen to her investments. At NextCard, the first online credit card company, Rebecca helped scale the company from 30 people to 1300 and an IPO. Rebecca started her venture career at Morgenthaler before co-founding Canvas Ventures in 2013. One of her early investments while a partner at Morgenthaler, Doximity (NYSE: DOCS), went public in 2021 and was one of the year’s largest IPOs.
Other notable investments include Luminar (NASDAQ: LAZR), Lending Club (NYSE: LC), Casetext (acq Thomson Reuters), Practice Fusion (acq Allscripts), Gabi (acq Experian), Check (acq Intuit), RelateIQ (acq Salesforce), CrowdFlower (acq by Appen), Viewics (acq Roche), FutureAdvisor (acq Blackrock), and Figure Eight (acq Appen).
Rebecca has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri, and a JD/MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. She serves on the board of Skydeck, the University of California Berkeley incubator and is a frequent lecturer at Stanford and Berkeley.
