Gary Little

Co-founded Canvas Ventures in 2013 to create a focused, boutique venture firm. Dedicated to enterprise investments in open source, cloud, and data. Began investing in 1998 after joining Morgenthaler Ventures, where he pioneered investments in the open source space, including early backing of MuleSoft, Sonatype, Jaspersoft. Earlier in his career as an operator, Gary played key roles at three companies that shaped and defined computing in their era. Gary began his career at IBM, where he joined the sales team the year the company launched the PC. During Gary’s tenure, IBM owned 70% of all IT spend. At Sun Microsystems, he rose through the ranks of marketing and product as the company conquered the server market. At Apple, he served as Senior Vice President of the Power Macintosh Division and Vice President of Sales of the Americas.