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 portfolio includes: 3scale, Acme Technologies, Alation, Apptimize, Bugcrowd, ChatID, Datalogix, Demandbase, Directly, Gamechanger, Grovo, Guardian Analytics, Inflection, Intacct, iSocket, Kahuna, Kenna (Risk I/O) Lex Machina, LinkSmart, NovoEd, ReturnPath, Stitch Labs, VictorOps and Viglink. Datalogix[7] and LinkSmart[8] have both been acquired.

In 2014, Greg Sands hired Costanoa Venture Capital's first partner, Neill Occhiogrosso[9] Mark Selcow, a serial entrepreneur and operator, joined Costanoa Venture Capital as Venture Partner in 2015.[10]

References

  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. ↑ O'Reilly, Lara. "Oracle has Acquired Datalogix". www.businessinsider.com. Business Insider.
  8. ↑ Ha, Anthony. "VigLink Acquires Content Promotion Startup LinkSmart, Adds Another $2M In Funding". techcrunch.com. TechCrunch.
  9. ↑ Gage, Deborah. "Costanoa Adds First Investment Partner". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  10. ↑ Sands, Greg. "Welcoming Mark Selcow". costanoavc.com.
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