
Grace Isford
Canvas Ventures
About
Role
Principal
Type
Multi-stage VC
Bio
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.
About Investments
Grace’s investment thesis centers around companies engaging in what she dubs the “Autonomy Economy” or the set of interrelated activities, platforms, and incentives that promote autonomous ideals of self-reliance, self-advocacy, and self-actualization.
Investments
Stages
Seed, Series A
Check Range
$1M-$5M
Geography
Europe, Latin America, US/Canada
Leads Rounds
Prefers to
Investment Highlights
Airvet, Flowspace, Robocorp, Skyflow, Vendia
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