Gary Little is a co-founder and General Partner at Canvas Ventures. See contact routes.
Gary Little is a co-founder and General Partner at Canvas Ventures, a Portola Valley-based venture capital firm he established in 2013 after pioneering open-source investments at Morgenthaler Ventures starting in 1998. His investment thesis targets B2B infrastructure and solutions in fintech, digital health, AI, and marketplaces, primarily at Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, and Series B+ stages. Canvas typically leads funding rounds with check sizes ranging from $5 million to $15 million, reflecting a lead investor behavior. Notable portfolio companies include Luminar Technologies, which went public via SPAC in 2020, as well as Zola, Vida Health, and Transfix. Little distinguishes himself through senior operating experience at Apple and IBM, grounding his value-add in go-to-market expertise rather than purely financial training. He maintains a concentrated investment approach of 7–10 board positions and personally recruits full executive teams for early-stage companies. Twice named to the Forbes Midas List, he brings 30 years of operating and investing experience to the firm.
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