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Colleen Cuffaro

Colleen Cuffaro

Partner·Canaan Partners

East Coast, United States

Bio

Professional summary

Colleen Cuffaro is a Partner on Canaan's healthcare team, where she focuses on early-stage biopharmaceutical companies. She helped launch the Canaan-Yale Fellowship program and has served on the board of the New England Venture Capital Association since 2017. Before Canaan, she worked as a chemist at PMRS, Inc.

Notable companies

Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed

Agomab TherapeuticsAlphina TherapeuticsArrakis TherapeuticsCatalYmDraig Therapeutics

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

  • CanaanPartner2014 – Present
  • PMRS, Inc.Chemist

Education

  • Yale UniversityPh.D. in Cellular and Molecular Physiology
  • University of PennsylvaniaB.A. in Chemistry

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