Costanoa Venture Capital

Costanoa Venture Capital
Industry Venture capital
Founded 2012 (2012)
Founder Greg Sands
Headquarters Palo Alto, USA
Key people
Neill Occhiogrosso

Costanoa Venture Capital is a venture capital firm investing in early stage start ups. The firm, founded by Greg Sands, started with a $100 million fund in 2012.[1] Costanoa announced the closing of their $135 million second fund in 2015.[2] Based out of Palo Alto, Costanoa Venture Capital focuses on cloud based consumer and business services, analytically driven applications, and data driven infrastructure.[3] Costanoa Venture Capital provides seed and Series A funding for smaller companies.[4] First round investments range from $500,000 to $3 million.[5]

Costanoa Venture Capital started with ten initial investments.[6] The current portfolio includes: Acme Ticketing, Alation, Apptimize, Bugcrowd, Demandbase, Directly, Gamechanger, Grovo, Guardian Analytics, Inflection, Intacct, Kahuna, Kenna (Risk I/O), Krypton, NovoEd, Propeller Aero,[7] Quizlet, ReturnPath, Stitch Labs, VictorOps, Viglink, Welcome and ZenIQ. Datalogix,[8] iSocket, Lex Machina, LinkSmart,[9] and 3scale[10] have been acquired.

In 2014, Greg Sands hired Costanoa Venture Capital's first partner, Neill Occhiogrosso[11] Mark Selcow, a serial entrepreneur and operator, joined Costanoa Venture Capital as Venture Partner in 2015.[12]

References[13]

  1. Farr, Christina. "Costanoa Venture Capital lifts the veil off its $100M cloud and 'big data' fund". VentureBeat. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  2. Mead, Winter. "Building A Venture Capital Firm Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint". Sapphire Ventures.
  3. Schubarth, Cromwell. "No froth here: Costanoa VC touts high-value consumer service companies". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  4. Darrow, Barb. "Costanoa rounds up $100M for promising cloud and big data startups". GigaOm. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  5. Geron, Tomio. "Early Stage Enterprise VC Firm Costanoa Launches With $100 Million Fund". Forbes. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  6. Williams, Alex. "Costanoa Venture Capital: A $100M Fund For Startups That Develop Cloud Services For Business And Consumer Markets". TechCrunch. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  7. http://www.afr.com/technology/propeller-aero-raises-4-million-from-silicon-valley-vc-funds-20160926-grof9y
  8. O'Reilly, Lara. "Oracle has Acquired Datalogix". www.businessinsider.com. Business Insider.
  9. Ha, Anthony. "VigLink Acquires Content Promotion Startup LinkSmart, Adds Another $2M In Funding". techcrunch.com. TechCrunch.
  10. Novet, Jordan. "Red Hat acquires API management company 3scale, will open-source the code". venturebeat.com. Venture Beat.
  11. Gage, Deborah. "Costanoa Adds First Investment Partner". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  12. Sands, Greg. "Welcoming Mark Selcow". costanoavc.com.
  13. Ha, Anthony. "Grovo Raises $15M More To Help Businesses Train Their Employees With Bite-Sized Videos". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
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