Cota Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

195

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

110

Rounds per year

19.50

Lead investments

21

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

20

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCloud Computing

Summary

Cota Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Cota Capital, startups are often financed by Streamlined Ventures, Lucas Venture Group, Plug and Play. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Signatures Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Pear Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Streamlined Ventures, Plug and Play, Western Technology Investment.

This organization was formed by Babak Poushanchi, Bobby Yazdani. The overall number of key employees were 6.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 Cloud Computing, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Berkeley Lights, Memebox, Capella Space. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Cota Capital performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2020. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
InsurtechB2B/EnterpriseFintechHealthcare
Stage focus
GeneralistSeed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
195
Lead investments
21
Exits
20
Rounds per year
19.50
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Software (65)
  • SaaS (42)
  • Financial Services (33)
  • Health Care (31)
  • Information Technology (30)
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Investments by region
  • United States (186)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Canada (1)
  • Finland (2)
  • France (1)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
883M
Group Appearance index
0.72
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
3.18
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fortify 01 Jun 2023 Manufacturing, 3D Printing, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Early Stage Venture 12M United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Jirav 11 Jul 2023 Financial Services, B2B, Finance, Predictive Analytics Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California, San Francisco

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