Rebecca Lynn
Partner
A Forbes Midas List honoree five years in a row, Rebecca Lynn is Managing Director at Canvas Prime, an offshoot of Canvas Ventures. A five-time Forbes Midas List honoree, Rebecca has been recognized as a Senior Deal Maker by the Wall Street Journal and a Top Woman VC by the New York Times.
Rebecca leads Series A investments in Fintech, Digital Health, and AI. Her investment track record includes leading the early-stage investment in Lending Club, which became the largest US technology IPO of 2014 and the fourth largest US Internet IPO since 2001, behind only Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Her other successful early-stage investments include Doximity (NYSE: DOCS), Casetext (acquired by Thomson Reuters), Luminar (NASDAQ: LAZR), Check (acquired by Intuit), Gabi (acquired by Experian), and Future Advisor (acquired by BlackRock).
Rebecca started her venture career at Morgenthaler before co-founding Canvas Ventures in 2013. Prior to venture capital, Rebecca helped scale NextCard, the first online credit card company, from 30 to 1,300 employees through IPO, where she developed expertise in credit operations and customer acquisition. She later consulted for major fintech brands including Experian and Capital One. Her marketing expertise was shaped at Procter & Gamble, where she learned the fundamentals of product-market fit and global scaling strategies.
Rebecca founded DC2VC in 2010, a competition to identify promising healthcare startups across the US. Her technical foundation began as a chemical engineer working in a nuclear research reactor. She holds a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Missouri and a JD/MBA from UC Berkeley, where she now serves on the board of Skydeck incubator. Rebecca is a frequent speaker at Bloomberg Invest, Fortune Brainstorm AI, Money2020, and regularly lectures at Berkeley and Stanford.
Education:
JD/MBA degree from the Haas School of Business and U.C. Berkeley School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri.
Focus:
Fintech, Digital Health, AI, and SaaS/marketplaces.
