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CSC Upshot

Venture capital firm · Founded 2015 · Active in 2026

CSC Upshot is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2015. The page below shows 25 Power Law outcomes from CSC Upshot's portfolio — 24 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Transportation · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · Colombia. CSC Upshot ranks #346 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

25 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #346 · Global · 25 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 33% 5y
24
Decacorns ↓ 33% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 133% 5y
22
01 · Exits

CSC Upshot’s biggest exits.

CSC Upshot portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$5.2B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $71M
$1.8B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series B+
$1.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $90M
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $433M
$1.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 25 CSC Upshot Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA24
  2. Colombia1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech5
  2. Transportation4
  3. Marketing4
  4. Other B2B Software3
  5. Other2
  6. Health Tech & Medtech2
  7. Space1
  8. AI1
  9. Biotech & Life Sciences1
  10. Energy1
  11. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+22
  2. Series A1
  3. Seed2
04 · Portfolio market map

CSC Upshot's 25 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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25 of 25 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does CSC Upshot stack up?

CSC Upshot in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where CSC Upshot's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

55 founders across the 25 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Groupon are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States39
Canada4
Romania4
Ethiopia1
India1
Mexico1
Ukraine1
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UniversityCount
Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
Stanford University4
University of Waterloo3
University of Minnesota Twin Cities3
Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
The University of Chicago3
University Of Minnesota Carlson School of Management2
Carnegie Mellon University2
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business2
Connecticut College2
+17 more →
Origin companyCount
Groupon4
Microsoft3
Amazon2
Twitch2
Meta2
LinkedIn2
Akamai1
Digital Domain1
Lazada1
Palantir1
+30 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at CSC Upshot.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about CSC Upshot

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about CSC Upshot on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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Latest news about CSC Upshot

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