Richard Boyle – Startup Investor Profile

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Richard Boyle, a General Partner at Canaan Partners, focuses on investing in real estate tech, artificial intelligence, robotics, and marketplaces. His investments include companies such as Apartment List, Archipelago, Berkshire Grey, and Tomorrow.io. Canaan Partners typically invests in early-stage ventures with check sizes ranging from $1M to $10M, primarily in the USA and internationally. Rich Boyle’s experience includes serving as the President, Chairman, and CEO of LoopNet, leading it through a successful IPO and eventual sale. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Rich Boyle is known for his active and outdoorsy interests like basketball, snowboarding, motorcycling, and hiking. Collaborative and open to partnerships, he brings a wealth of expertise to the startup ecosystem.
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Country: Ireland
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Investment Regions: EU, NA
Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed
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🤖 AI Activity Report

Status: very-active

AI Reasoning: Canaan’s site and news show Rich Boyle invested in Diligent Robotics and Archipelago with coverage in 2021 and Diligent Robotics fundraising coverage in 2023 (TechCrunch mentions Diligent raised $25M in 2023). More recent activity: Archipelago coverage 2021 and Diligent Robotics posts and TechCrunch 2024-2025 related articles indicate ongoing involvement. The most recent investment-related mention tied to Rich Boyle is within the last 6 months, classifying as very-active.

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Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.
Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.
Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.

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