# Babak Poushanchi

> Babak Poushanchi is a startup investor at Cota Capital (San Francisco). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cota Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cota-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/babak-poushanchi-a5a3a238/
- Website: http://www.cotacapital.com

Babak Poushanchi is a Founder and Managing Partner at Cota Capital. Babak is responsible for leading public investing activities across the Firm’s funds. As Portfolio Manager of the Cota Growth Fund, he is directly responsible for the management of the investment team covering sourcing, evaluation, and portfolio/risk management of the Firm’spublic investments. Babak also serves on the Firm’s Investment Committee, overseeing investments across its private and public portfolios.Babak and Bobby Yazdani founded Cota Capital in 2015. Leveraging Bobby’s early stage investing and operational expertise, and Babak’s late stage and public investing expertise, Cota was designed to invest across all the stages of the lifecycle of a company. Their investment platform is built around the desire to create a research and knowledge platform, and to deploy their own capital into the multi-decade theme of the digital transformation of the enterprise technology stack.Prior to Cota, Babak served as Co-Founder and Co-Portfolio Manager of Newbrook Capital, a global equity long/short fund focused on public investments across the technology, media, consumer, and industrial sectors. Babak was also a Venture Partner at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, a leading technology accelerator based in New York. Previously, Babak was on the investment teams at Karsch Capital, a global equity long/short fund focused on public investments across all sectors, and Indosuez Capital, a leading middle market merchant banking group focused on equity and debt private investments across the capital structure and a broad range of sectors.Babak has a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University.

## About Cota Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Cota Capital is an SEC-registered multi-stage investment firm focused on private and public enterprise technology companies. Cota has invested in more than 100 private and public technology companies since inception. Cota’s overall Mission is to deliver impactful outcomes through principle-guided investment in modern enterprise technologies.

5 contacts available at Cota Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aditya Singh | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditya-singh-a1ba |
| Aleksander Gustav Mohn | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleksander-gustav-mohn |
| Babak Poushanchi | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/babak-poushanchi |
| Bobby Yazdani | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-yazdani |
| Chad Cohen | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chad-cohen |

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