Gary Little

Co Founder at Canvas Ventures

📍 Atherton, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 27 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2021
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Member
Feb 2021
Data workflows across business networks are fragmented, delayed, and highly manual and the lack of access to partner data is slowing down companies. Vendia’s platform helps enterprises automate and accelerate data workflows across business networks by facilitating secure, trusted, and controlled data exchange between multiple parties. Our customers are using Vendia Share to build unique and proprietary data applications that unlock new revenue, cost savings, and innovations across industries such as finance, manufacturing, travel, and supply chain. Vendia is a fast-growing, venture-backed startup founded by industry veterans and backed by $50M in investment from top-tier investors.
Board Member
Jan 2020
FOSSA is a leading SBOM and software supply chain risk management platform. It helps enterprises generate, ingest, analyze, and operationalize SBOMs in multiple formats, supporting a range of regulatory compliance and software transparency initiatives. It also offers comprehensive SCA (software composition analysis) capabilities, including automated open source license compliance management and vulnerability prioritization solutions. FOSSA was founded in 2015 and has grown to serve thousands of leading organizations across the globe. In all, its been downloaded nearly two million times and has run nearly 100 million open source software scans.
Board Member
Jan 2019
Functionize: Pioneering the Future of Enterprise Agentic Automation Functionize is revolutionizing enterprise automation with its innovative Agentic Automation Platform. By harnessing cutting-edge Generative AI and proprietary Enterprise Application Intelligence (EAI), we deliver scalable, autonomous solutions that far surpass traditional rules-based automation like RPA. Our AI-powered EAI Agents intelligently automate workflows across complex applications—such as Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow—or custom web and mobile applications—reducing maintenance burdens and delivering exceptional operational efficiency. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders, Functionize is transforming how enterprises operate. Our intuitive platform, Functionize Studio, empowers both technical and non-technical teams to deploy AI Agents that continuously learn, self-heal, and adapt to changing environments. With a consumption-based SaaS model and flexible pricing, we help businesses scale their automation efforts while achieving significant cost savings. Join us in transforming the future of work with Functionize’s AI-driven solutions—delivering the next generation of enterprise automation, today. Key Highlights: - Generative AI-Powered Automation: Functionize AI Agents autonomously manage complex workflows, self-healing in real time without breaking. - Proven Success: Trusted by 60+ enterprise customers, including Fortune 500 companies, to streamline testing and operational processes. - Scalable and Secure: Our cloud-native platform delivers seamless, secure automation across enterprise environments, with unmatched flexibility. - Data-Driven Advantage: Our multimodal AI models process millions of data points to enhance accuracy, reduce errors, and improve automation efficiency. - Agentic Innovation: Pushing beyond traditional automation with next-gen capabilities for autonomous lifecycle management.
Board Member
2017
Kinetica is a real-time GPU accelerated analytic database for big data. Kinetica leverages GPUs and modern many-core CPUs to achieve industry crushing performance for generative AI, spatial, time-series, OLAP and Graph related queries. Kinetica is trusted by Citibank, Liberty Mutual, Ford, NORAD, Verizon, The NBA, Kaiser Permanente, and T-Mobile, among others. Kinetica has a rich partner ecosystem, including NVIDIA, Dell, HP, Expero, and Oracle. Kinetica is privately held, backed by leading global venture capital firms Canvas Ventures, Citi Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, and Meritech Capital Partners.
Board Member
2017
With the Folloze Digital Experience Platform for B2B, your team can create relevant and influential ABM and demand-gen content marketing campaigns to encourage buyer engagement, drive marketing and sales success, and fuel pipeline and growth. Frontline marketers are the future of marketing, and Folloze can help you discover the marketing tools, insights, and autonomy to succeed. At Folloze, our mission is to help you engage and convert B2B buyers at every stage of their buyer journey. The new era of digital selling and buyer engagement has changed the B2B buying space forever, but personalized, buyer-centric experiences can keep your B2B sales on top. Take your B2B marketing and sales orchestration to the next level with the Folloze platform. Request a demo today to discover how you can utilize account-based marketing and demand-gen campaigns to turn engagement into revenue with Folloze.
Board Member
2017
Kinetica is a real-time GPU accelerated analytic database for big data. Kinetica leverages GPUs and modern many-core CPUs to achieve industry crushing performance for generative AI, spatial, time-series, OLAP and Graph related queries. Kinetica is trusted by Citibank, Liberty Mutual, Ford, NORAD, Verizon, The NBA, Kaiser Permanente, and T-Mobile, among others. Kinetica has a rich partner ecosystem, including NVIDIA, Dell, HP, Expero, and Oracle. Kinetica is privately held, backed by leading global venture capital firms Canvas Ventures, Citi Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, and Meritech Capital Partners.
Board Member
2017
Platform9 is a leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director delivers an open, comprehensive private cloud platform that is developer-friendly and cost-effective, while providing enterprise IT teams with key capabilities they need to modernize their legacy virtualized infrastructure, including: * Production ready virtualization: Comprehensive virtualization management, from advanced resource scheduling to powerful cluster-wide Software Defined Networking. *Built for the enterprise: Ability to run hundreds of clusters with high availability, seamless in-place upgrades, and backed by Platform9’s Always-On Assurance™. *Integrated and extensible: Integrated platform includes Kubernetes and Kubernetes based platform extensions making it easier for enterprises to harness the ever-growing ecosystem of open-source infrastructure and cloud-native services. Platform9 was founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers and has over 20,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency.
Former Board Member
2014
Viewics (Acquired by Roche) provides unprecedented access to disparate healthcare data to surface actionable intelligence and empower data-driven decision-making. Through expertise and focus on healthcare analytics, Viewics delivers proprietary, best-in-class technology for data extraction, cleansing, and transformation to quickly unlock insights that deliver invaluable operational and financial impact, while reducing burden on IT. The HIPAA-compliant solution puts the transformational power of analytics into the hands of healthcare professionals in financial, operational, and IT roles. The solution is customized and supported to enable organizations to move with agility, make decisions based on accurate data, see insights at-a-glance, and deliver great impact.
Board Member
2014
Totango is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Success Platforms Report, but it isn’t customer success software. Totango is a Customer Growth Platform designed to support a new post-Sales paradigm – one focused on driving measurable customer outcomes and building a repeatable, predictable customer growth engine. Totango combines scalable customer management, predictive revenue intelligence, and a strategic post-Sales methodology focused on earning expansion through proof of customer ROI. Revenue leaders across 600 organizations globally—including Schneider Electric, Verint, Docebo, and Meltwater—trust Totango products to drive retention, expansion, and deeper post-Sales revenue rigor. Totango earned 5/5 scores in Roadmap, Innovation, Pricing Transparency & Flexibility, Vision, Retention Optimization, and Scaling Customer Success criterion in the Forrester Wave™.
Former Board Member
2012
PeopleMatter is the first end-to-end platform of mobile sourcing, hiring, training, scheduling, and performance management tools. We connect the on-demand needs of employers and hourly workers in seconds.
Board Observer
2011
The Sonatype journey started 15 years ago, just as the concept of “open source” software development was gaining steam. From our humble beginning as core contributors to Apache Maven, to supporting the world’s largest repository of open source components (Central), to distributing the worlds most popular repository manager (Sonatype Nexus Repository), we’ve played a meaningful role in helping the world embrace the power of open innovation. Over time, we witnessed the staggering volume and variety of open source libraries that began flowing into every development environment in the world. We understood that when open source components are properly managed, they provide a tremendous energy for accelerating innovation. Conversely, when unmanaged, open source "gone wild"​ can lead directly to security vulnerabilities, licensing risks, enormous rework, and waste. Our vision today is simple. We are laser focused on helping organizations continuously harness all of the good that open source has to offer, without any of the risk. In order to do this, we have invested in knowing more about the quality of open source than anyone else in the world. This investment takes the form of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and human expertise, which in aggregate produces highly curated intelligence that is infused into every Sonatype product. Organizations equipped with Sonatype products make better decisions, innovate faster at scale, and rest comfortably knowing that their applications always consist of the highest quality open source components.
Board Member
2010
Evernote helps you regain control of your day so you can focus on what matters most.
Former Board Observer
2009
Meet the #EHR that helps independent practices thrive.
Former Board Observer
2009
Since our founding in 2007, we have transformed the banking industry by bringing a traditional credit product - the installment loan - online and we’ve been on the fast track ever since. We are one of the first fintechs to acquire a national bank charter, which has transformed our business economics and introduced all new capabilities, and now others are following our lead, validating the strength of our model. We are one of America’s largest providers of unsecured personal loans, originating more than $100 billion in loans to our more than 5 million high-FICO, high-income members and helping them save millions on their cost of credit. And we’re just getting started. A Culture that Delivers Impact: We’re tackling big problems, but we’re a small enough organization for each individual to make a real difference People: We’re a group of smart, kind, low-ego, and values-driven people from a wide variety of industries and backgrounds who are committed to our mission Ideas: We seek out the best ideas – no matter where they come from – to look beyond what is possible today Values: It’s not just what you accomplish, it’s also how you accomplish it that matters Member FDIC
Board Member
2008
Adara, a RateGain company, is one of the world’s largest data exchange platforms, providing access to ethically-sourced travel intent data. With 270+ global partners who supply aggregated real-time traveler data, we deliver actionable insights and predictive intelligence to drive better marketing ROI. Built on the world’s richest travel data co-op, Adara helps brands win in the fast-paced digital economy with 4 Billion searches and over 23 billion data elements across 100+ countries.
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2021
Board Member
Feb 2021
Data workflows across business networks are fragmented, delayed, and highly manual and the lack of access to partner data is slowing down companies. Vendia’s platform helps enterprises automate and accelerate data workflows across business networks by facilitating secure, trusted, and controlled data exchange between multiple parties. Our customers are using Vendia Share to build unique and proprietary data applications that unlock new revenue, cost savings, and innovations across industries such as finance, manufacturing, travel, and supply chain. Vendia is a fast-growing, venture-backed startup founded by industry veterans and backed by $50M in investment from top-tier investors.
2020
Board Member
Jan 2020
FOSSA is a leading SBOM and software supply chain risk management platform. It helps enterprises generate, ingest, analyze, and operationalize SBOMs in multiple formats, supporting a range of regulatory compliance and software transparency initiatives. It also offers comprehensive SCA (software composition analysis) capabilities, including automated open source license compliance management and vulnerability prioritization solutions. FOSSA was founded in 2015 and has grown to serve thousands of leading organizations across the globe. In all, its been downloaded nearly two million times and has run nearly 100 million open source software scans.
2019
Board Member
Jan 2019
Functionize: Pioneering the Future of Enterprise Agentic Automation Functionize is revolutionizing enterprise automation with its innovative Agentic Automation Platform. By harnessing cutting-edge Generative AI and proprietary Enterprise Application Intelligence (EAI), we deliver scalable, autonomous solutions that far surpass traditional rules-based automation like RPA. Our AI-powered EAI Agents intelligently automate workflows across complex applications—such as Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow—or custom web and mobile applications—reducing maintenance burdens and delivering exceptional operational efficiency. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders, Functionize is transforming how enterprises operate. Our intuitive platform, Functionize Studio, empowers both technical and non-technical teams to deploy AI Agents that continuously learn, self-heal, and adapt to changing environments. With a consumption-based SaaS model and flexible pricing, we help businesses scale their automation efforts while achieving significant cost savings. Join us in transforming the future of work with Functionize’s AI-driven solutions—delivering the next generation of enterprise automation, today. Key Highlights: - Generative AI-Powered Automation: Functionize AI Agents autonomously manage complex workflows, self-healing in real time without breaking. - Proven Success: Trusted by 60+ enterprise customers, including Fortune 500 companies, to streamline testing and operational processes. - Scalable and Secure: Our cloud-native platform delivers seamless, secure automation across enterprise environments, with unmatched flexibility. - Data-Driven Advantage: Our multimodal AI models process millions of data points to enhance accuracy, reduce errors, and improve automation efficiency. - Agentic Innovation: Pushing beyond traditional automation with next-gen capabilities for autonomous lifecycle management.
2017
Board Member
2017
Kinetica is a real-time GPU accelerated analytic database for big data. Kinetica leverages GPUs and modern many-core CPUs to achieve industry crushing performance for generative AI, spatial, time-series, OLAP and Graph related queries. Kinetica is trusted by Citibank, Liberty Mutual, Ford, NORAD, Verizon, The NBA, Kaiser Permanente, and T-Mobile, among others. Kinetica has a rich partner ecosystem, including NVIDIA, Dell, HP, Expero, and Oracle. Kinetica is privately held, backed by leading global venture capital firms Canvas Ventures, Citi Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, and Meritech Capital Partners.
Board Member
2017
With the Folloze Digital Experience Platform for B2B, your team can create relevant and influential ABM and demand-gen content marketing campaigns to encourage buyer engagement, drive marketing and sales success, and fuel pipeline and growth. Frontline marketers are the future of marketing, and Folloze can help you discover the marketing tools, insights, and autonomy to succeed. At Folloze, our mission is to help you engage and convert B2B buyers at every stage of their buyer journey. The new era of digital selling and buyer engagement has changed the B2B buying space forever, but personalized, buyer-centric experiences can keep your B2B sales on top. Take your B2B marketing and sales orchestration to the next level with the Folloze platform. Request a demo today to discover how you can utilize account-based marketing and demand-gen campaigns to turn engagement into revenue with Folloze.
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