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Costanoa Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 2012 · Palo Alto, United States

#414 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 3% of investors worldwide

Invests mostly in SaaS infrastructure and marketplaces

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129 Portfolio companies+72% in 5 years
5 Unicorns
235 Investments
Jul 2026 Last investment
01 · Knowledge graph
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02 · Biggest holdings

Costanoa Ventures’ biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Costanoa Ventures still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for Costanoa Ventures, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation
  1. 1 6SenseUnicorn · Marketing · USA $5.2B
  2. 2 AlationUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA $1.7B
  3. 3 CyberhavenUnicorn · Security · USA $1.0B
  4. 4 BugcrowdUnicorn · Security · USA $1.0B
  5. 5 QuizletUnicorn · Education · USA $1.0B
  6. 6 AuterionRobotics · USA $600M
  7. 7 DemandbaseMarketing · USA $260M

Unicorns and thoroughbreds Costanoa Ventures has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. Costanoa Ventures also appears inside investor groups in 6Sense, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Portfolio analysis

Where Costanoa Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 129 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA124
  2. Brazil4
  3. UK3
  4. Canada2
  5. Germany2
  6. Mexico2
  7. Australia1
  8. Colombia1
  9. Egypt1
  10. Italy1
  11. Norway1
  12. Sweden1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software50
  2. Fintech28
  3. Security26
  4. Marketing16
  5. Education7
  6. Jobs Recruitment7
  7. Health5
  8. Legal4
  9. Media4
  10. Real Estate4
  11. Robotics4
  12. Telecom4
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed65
  2. Series A52
  3. Series B+12
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage74
  2. Early Growth42
  3. Late Growth27
04 · Portfolio market map

Inside Costanoa Ventures’ portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 129 tracked.

6Sense
Marketing · Unicorn
$5.2B
Alation
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.7B
Cyberhaven
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Bugcrowd
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Skedulo
Jobs Recruitment
$400M
PayNearMe
Fintech
$200M
AKASA (Alpha Health)
Health
$480M
Auterion
Robotics
$600M
Kepler Communications
Telecom
$368M
Cape
Security
$900M
Demandbase
Marketing
$260M
Muon Space
Space
$284M
Return Path
Marketing
$140M
Highnote
Fintech
$360M
Intacct
Fintech
$850M
Hidden Level
Security
$500M
AppOmni
Security
$280M
Lively
Health
$320M
Replicant
Marketing
$550M
Vic.ai
Fintech
$208M
Fauna Inc.
Enterprise Software
$108M
Leap Services
Real Estate
$250M
Kenna Security
Security
$192M
Vannevar Labs
Security
$300M
Datalogix
Enterprise Software
$180M
Ivo
Legal
$355M
Grovo
Education
$45M
Bigeye
Enterprise Software
$180M
Springboard
Education
$155M
Kahuna
Hosting
$26M
Directly
Jobs Recruitment
$44M
Regrow
Food
$152M
Quizlet
Education · Unicorn
$1.0B
Shepherd
Fintech
$168M
Aquabyte
Food
$100M
BillGO
Fintech
$30M
Bedrock Ocean Exploration
Robotics
$100M
Noyo
Fintech
$180M
SGNL
Security
$740M
Basis Theory
Security
$132M
Propeller Aerobotics
Real Estate
$89M
StackHawk
Security
$104M
Magnite
Marketing
$72M
Cyral
Security
$104M
Guardian Analytics
Security
$16M
Numa
Enterprise Software
$128M
Parallel Domain
Media
$120M
Focal Systems
Enterprise Software
$103M
Glow Insurance
Fintech
$90M
Empirical Security
Security
$100M
Smile ID
Security
$80M
FOSSA
Legal
$93M
VictorOps
USA
$120M
Rafay Systems
Enterprise Software
$100M
Smack Technologies Inc.
Security
$96M
Fixify
Enterprise Software
$100M
Cresicor
Marketing
$29M
Comun
Fintech
$86M
Inflection
Fintech
$120M
Pepperdata
Jobs Recruitment
$75M
05 · Portfolio founders

Where Costanoa Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.

162 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States128
  2. Switzerland6
  3. United Kingdom6
  4. Brazil3
  5. Argentina2
  6. Australia2
  7. Canada2
  8. Colombia2
  9. Peru2
  10. Sweden2
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University10
  2. Stanford University Graduate School of Business10
  3. Harvard Business School9
  4. University of California, Berkeley9
  5. Harvard University6
  6. EPFL Swiss Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne4
  7. Brown University3
  8. Columbia University3
  9. Cornell University3
  10. Duke University3
Previous companyCount
  1. Microsoft9
  2. Alphabet | Google8
  3. Apple5
  4. EPFL Swiss Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne4
  5. Netflix4
  6. Uber4
  7. Amazon Rekognition3
  8. Amazon Web Services3
  9. Bank of America3
  10. BofA3
06 · Similar investors

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#62 rank 7,127 companies $1.9T portfolio
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#56 rank 849 companies $1.9T portfolio
Techstars
Accelerator · New York City
#855 rank 2,278 companies $249B portfolio
Plug and Play
Venture Capital · Sunnyvale
#410 rank 1,576 companies $290B portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,188 companies $4.4T portfolio
SV Angel
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#109 rank 986 companies $3.7T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,921 companies $23T portfolio
500 Global
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#431 rank 2,321 companies $284B portfolio
07 · Key people

Key people at Costanoa Ventures.

Greg Sands
Greg Sands
Founder
 Neill Occhiogrosso
Neill Occhiogrosso
Partner
 Martina Lauchengco
Martina Lauchengco
Partner
 Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson
Partner
 John Cowgill
John Cowgill
General Partner
 Michelle McHargue
Michelle McHargue
Partner
 Amy Cheetham
Amy Cheetham
Partner
 Jordan Narancich
Jordan Narancich
Partner
 Mark Selcow
Mark Selcow
General Partner
 Tony Liu
Tony Liu
Partner
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.