Rebecca Lynn

A Forbes Midas List honoree five years in a row, Rebecca Lynn is Managing Director at Canvas Prime, an offshoot of Canvas Ventures. Lynn’s investment track record includes leading the early-stage investment in Lending Club, which became the largest U.S. 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, Casetext, Luminar, Check, Gabi, and Future Advisor. Lynn has been recognized as a Senior Deal Maker by the Wall Street Journal and a Top Woman VC by the New York Times.

Lynn started her venture career at Morgenthaler before co-founding Canvas Prime (formerly Canvas Ventures) in 2013. Prior to venture capital, she 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. Lynn 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.

Lynn 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 University of California, Berkeley, where she now serves on the board of Skydeck incubator.

Lynn is a frequent speaker at Bloomberg Invest, Fortune Brainstorm AI, Money2020, and regularly lectures at Berkeley and Stanford.