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Cota Capital

Founders Babak Poushanchi Bobby Yazdani Ullas Naik

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Total investments 191
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 108
Rounds per year 19.10
Lead investments 20
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 20
Key employees 16
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Neural Propulsion Systems

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$17M07 Mar 2024 California, United States

Rhombus Systems

Information Technology
Security
Video
$26M27 Feb 2024 Sacramento, California, United States

Radius Agent

Marketplace
Mobile
Professional Networking
Real Estate
$13M02 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

CellFE

Biotechnology
Health Care
$22M27 Sep 2023 California, United States

Jirav

B2B
Finance
Financial Services
Predictive Analytics
$20M11 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Auradine

Blockchain
Infrastructure
Security
$71M16 May 2023 Santa Clara, California, United States

Savant Labs

Analytics
Big Data
Productivity Tools
Software
$11M01 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Glow

Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
$24M08 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

FlowForge

Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Internet of Things
$7M03 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Citcon Closes $30M Series C Funding

– Citcon received $30m in Series C financing led by Norwest Venture Partners and Cota Capital.
– The new funding will support the rapid addition of world-class staff and global expansion that builds on the company’s international presence on four continents.
– The company’s annualized payment volume is more than $1 billion, representing 300%+ year-on-year growth.
– Citcon’s global enterprise payments gateway allows merchants to participate in global commerce by enabling secure online or in-store transactions with more than 100 different payment methods, including mobile wallets, local payment schemes, and traditional credit cards — all through one single integration and reconciliation platform.

Known Medicine Raises $7.2M in Seed Funding

– Known Medicine is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based 3D cell culture data set company.
– The company raised $7.2M in seed funding.
– The round was led by Caffeinated Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Cota Capital, Kickstart, Forward VC, OATV, Y Combinator, Chris Gibson and Nish Bhat.
– The new investment will be used to grow the company’s proprietary 3D cell culture data set for deployment in partnership with biopharmaceutical companies and in the clinical diagnostics space.

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Total investments 191
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 19.10
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 20
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 20
Group Appearance index 0.72

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Neural Propulsion Systems

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$17M07 Mar 2024 California, United States

Rhombus Systems

Information Technology
Security
Video
$26M27 Feb 2024 Sacramento, California, United States

Radius Agent

Marketplace
Mobile
Professional Networking
Real Estate
$13M02 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

CellFE

Biotechnology
Health Care
$22M27 Sep 2023 California, United States

Jirav

B2B
Finance
Financial Services
Predictive Analytics
$20M11 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Auradine

Blockchain
Infrastructure
Security
$71M16 May 2023 Santa Clara, California, United States

Savant Labs

Analytics
Big Data
Productivity Tools
Software
$11M01 Mar 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Glow

Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
$24M08 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

FlowForge

Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Internet of Things
$7M03 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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