Costanoa Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

201

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

104

Rounds per year

16.75

Lead investments

41

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

20

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecuritySecurity

Summary

Costanoa Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The current fund was established by Greg Sands. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Costanoa Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Costanoa Ventures works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Costanoa Ventures, startups are often financed by Blackbird Ventures (Australia), True Ventures, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foundry Group, True Ventures, Industry Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Uncork Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Salesforce Ventures.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, Education. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Datalogix, Demandbase, Bugcrowd

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechCloud/InfrastructureAI/Big DataCybersecurity
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAlgeriaArgentinaAustraliaAustria Show 96 more
Check size
1M — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 225000000
Fund raised date
2021-12-01

Analytics

Total investments
201
Lead investments
41
Exits
20
Rounds per year
16.75
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Software (72)
  • SaaS (47)
  • Information Technology (44)
  • Machine Learning (37)
  • Artificial Intelligence (31)
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Investments by region
  • United States (180)
  • Canada (3)
  • Australia (3)
  • Germany (1)
  • Switzerland (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
115M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.06
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cyberhaven 11 Jun 2024 Information Technology, Cyber Security, Security, Cloud Security Late Stage Venture 88M United States, California, Palo Alto
Smile Identity 13 Feb 2023 Financial Services, Apps, Identity Management Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California, Oakland

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