Grace Isford

Overview

Grace is the youngest principal and investment team member at Canvas Ventures, which she first joined part-time in 2016 as a campus scout while still studying at Stanford. Since joining full-time in 2019, she has been promoted 3 times. Grace has sourced 10 deals representing over $100M in deployed capital for Canvas including Robocorp, Skyflow, Vendia and Flowspace and serves as either a board director or observer on seven of those ten companies. Prior to Canvas, Grace worked on the LP side at the Stanford Management Company and in product at edtech startup Handshake. She’s passionate about increasing female representation in venture and tech - she served as President of Stanford Women in Business and as an All Raise Captain. Grace also serves on the board of Stanford Technology Ventures Program, which stems from her participation in the Mayfield Fellowship program. invests at the nexus of web3, data infrastructure, and applications of AI/ML especially in healthcare and financial services. focuses on crypto and blockchain infrastructure companies building the next-gen web3 stack as well as data and machine-learning startups that are hyper-personalizing user experiences and transforming legacy industries. Before joining Lux, Grace was a principal at Canvas Ventures Prior to Canvas, Grace worked on the LP side at the Stanford Management Company

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