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CSC Upshot

Venture Capital · Founded 2015 · Palo Alto, United States

#346 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 2% of investors worldwide

$400m fund that invests primarily in angellist syndicates

56 Portfolio companies
19 Unicorns
1 Decacorns
57 Investments
Sep 2018 Last investment
01 · Biggest holdings

CSC Upshot’s biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies CSC Upshot 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 CSC Upshot, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation
  1. 1 NotionDecacorn · Enterprise Software · USA $10.0B
  2. 2 FlexportUnicorn · Transportation · USA $8.0B
  3. 3 RappiUnicorn · Food · Colombia $5.2B
  4. 4 CheckrUnicorn · Legal · USA $4.6B
  5. 5 BranchUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA $4.0B
  6. 6 AstranisUnicorn · Telecom · USA $2.8B
  7. 7 SideUnicorn · Real Estate · USA $2.5B
  8. 8 Kin InsuranceUnicorn · Fintech · USA $2.0B
  9. 9 RoofstockUnicorn · Fintech · USA $1.9B
  10. 10 Maven ClinicUnicorn · Health · USA $1.7B
  11. 11 ArcadiaUnicorn · Energy · USA $1.4B
  12. 12 Boom SupersonicUnicorn · Transportation · USA $1.2B

Unicorns and thoroughbreds CSC Upshot has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

02 · Exits

CSC Upshot’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from CSC Upshot’s transaction record.

$5.2B IPO · 2021
Now $71MTransportation
$1.8B acquisition · 2024
Fintech
$1.5B acquisition · 2025
Health
$1.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $82MWellness Beauty
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Now $396MMarketing
$1.3B acquisition · 2026
Enterprise Software
$1.0B acquisition · 2016
Robotics
03 · Portfolio analysis

Where CSC Upshot’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 56 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA212
  2. Brazil3
  3. UK3
  4. Canada1
  5. Colombia1
  6. Germany1
  7. Israel1
  8. Mexico1
  9. Singapore1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software60
  2. Fintech34
  3. Health33
  4. Marketing21
  5. Transportation18
  6. Jobs Recruitment13
  7. Home Living12
  8. Media11
  9. Education10
  10. Real Estate10
  11. Security9
  12. Robotics8
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed38
  2. Series A9
  3. Series B+7
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth89
  2. Breakout Stage84
  3. Late Growth52
  4. Mature1
04 · Portfolio market map

Inside CSC Upshot’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 56 tracked.

Cruise
Robotics
$850M
Flexport
Transportation · Unicorn
$8.0B
Rappi
Food · Unicorn
$5.2B
Airtable
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.3B
Bolt
Security
$300M
Astranis
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.8B
Boom Supersonic
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.2B
Alto Pharmacy
Health · Unicorn
$1.5B
Branch
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$4.0B
Arcadia
Energy · Unicorn
$1.4B
Grove Collaborative
Wellness Beauty
$82M
Checkr
Legal · Unicorn
$4.6B
Maven Clinic
Health · Unicorn
$1.7B
May Mobility
Transportation
$555M
Kin Insurance
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.0B
Roofstock
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.9B
Juniper Square
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.1B
Wag
Home Living
$14M
Petal
Fintech
$800M
Tala
Fintech
$800M
Notion
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$10B
Embark Trucks
Transportation
$71M
BioAge Labs
Health
$680M
Side
Real Estate · Unicorn
$2.5B
Emulate
Health
$410M
Truepill
Health
$525M
Bluecore
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.0B
OpenGov
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.8B
Circle Pharma
Health
$360M
Sezzle
Fintech
$185M
People.ai
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.1B
PayJoy
Fintech
$600M
Albert
Fintech
$400M
atVenu
Event Tech
$4.4M
Athelas
Health · Unicorn
$1.5B
Wunderkind
Marketing
$304M
LTSE
Fintech
$400M
Weave
Marketing
$396M
Ripcord
Enterprise Software
$225M
Pipefy
Enterprise Software
$300M
nTop
Enterprise Software
$200M
Descomplica
Education
$338M
Dia&Co
Fashion
$280M
Leolabs
Space
$325M
Aquant
Enterprise Software
$280M
Superhuman
Telecom
$825M
uBiome
Health
Drip Capital
Fintech
$200M
Molekule
Health
$43M
NURX
Health
$268M
BlueShift
Marketing
$160M
Nav
Fintech
$180M
Ledger Investing
Fintech
$300M
Fuzzy
Health
$176M
CodeSignal
Education
$200M
Grabango
Enterprise Software
$156M
Replicated
Enterprise Software
$200M
Lightning Labs
Fintech
$280M
Osaro
Robotics
$120M
Hudson MX
Media
$254M
05 · Portfolio founders

Where CSC Upshot’s portfolio founders come from.

173 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 States147
  2. United Kingdom5
  3. Canada3
  4. Brazil2
  5. Argentina1
  6. Finland1
  7. Germany1
  8. India1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University20
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology13
  3. Stanford University Graduate School of Business11
  4. University of California, Berkeley6
  5. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania6
  6. Columbia University5
  7. Harvard University5
  8. New York University5
  9. Harvard Business School4
  10. University of Cambridge4
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google7
  2. Lehman Brothers5
  3. Groupon4
  4. Microsoft4
  5. Stanford University4
  6. Yahoo!4
  7. Amazon3
  8. Apple3
  9. Cisco3
  10. Deloitte3