Bobby Yazdani
Founder & Partner @ Cota Capital
San Francisco, United States
Bobby Yazdani is a Founder and Managing Partner at Cota Capital. Bobby works full-time on the development and support of entrepreneurs through Cota Capital and was ranked #1 out of 2000 angel investors for successful follow-on funding by CB Insights in 2014.Bobby founded Saba in 1997, taking the company public in 2000. Saba was the pioneer inlearning management and talent management systems addressing all aspects of acquiring, developing, and retaining talent serving over 30 million users within 2,000 enterprise customers across 195 countries and in 37 languages worldwide. Prior to Saba, Bobby served in various R&D roles at Oracle.Since making his first investment in Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ: MASI) in 1989, Bobby has successfully mentored entrepreneurs and invested in more than 100 early-stage companies, including: Aardvark (acquired by Google), AddThis (acquired by Oracle), Addepar, Atheer Labs, Baarzo (acquired by Google), Berkeley Lights, Bina Technologies (acquired by Roche), Bioniz, Blueprint Genetics (acquired by Quest Diagnostics), Bonobos (acquired by Walmart), Bossa Nova, Clear Labs, CleverSense (acquired by Google), CloudLending (acquired by Q2 Holdings), Dropbox (NASDAQ: DBX), FundersClub, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Greensmith Energy (acquired by Wartsila (HEL: WRT1V)), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll), InstaEdu (acquired by Chegg), Klout (acquired by Lithium Technologies), Mission Bio, Movandi, NextBio (acquired by Illumina), OpenGov, PassBan (acquired by EMC/RSA), Purigen Biosystems, Qwiki (acquired by Yahoo!), RecVue, Rollbar, Roostify, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), Smartfrog Canary Group, SoundHound, SweetGreen, ThinkBig Analytics (acquired by Teradata), Tubi (acquired by Fox Corp), Uber (NYSE: UBER), Webs.com (acquired by VistaPrint), Zymergen, and more.Bobby has a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Total investments:
- 129
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 25 (19%)
- Analytics 14 (11%)
- Information Technology 14 (11%)
- SaaS 13 (10%)
- Health Care 12 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 38 (29%)
- Seed 36 (28%)
- Series B 20 (16%)
- Convertible Note 9 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (5%)
Country
- United States 94 (73%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
- Chile 1 (1%)
- Spain 1 (1%)
Investments
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CAST AI
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CAST AI is a cloud optimization platform that reduces cloud costs, optimizes DevOps, and automates disaster recovery. CAST AI intelligent optimization engine delivers a cost-efficient, high-performing, and resilient infrastructure for every Kubernetes workload. Cloud Cost optimization CAST AI brings resource and cost optimization to Kubernetesusing an AI-driven optimization engine that applies cluster changes based on real-time workload conditions. It selects the most cost-effective instance types and bin-packs pods for maximum utilization. The platform uses spot instances that offer 70 to 90% discounts and are automatically selected for any stateless workloads. CAST AI also sets pod scaling parameters to achieve optimal application performance while maximizing cost savings. Moreover, users get detailed cost reports to enable forecasting expenses at the level of project, cluster, namespace, and deployment - down to individual microservices.Infrastructure abstraction that makes DevOps 10x more productiveCAST AI provides an opinionated Kubernetes implementation that hides the infrastructure complexities with automation. So DevOps engineers no longer have to deal with IaaS complexity and can finally focus on higher-order cloud-native abstractions and concepts. They can create and manage CAST AI components through API, CLI, and Terraform to automate their infrastructure lifecycle management. CAST AI also provides services for in-cluster observability (logging, tracing, and metrics) and built-in security (encryption at rest and in transit).Foolproof outage prevention with cloud neutrality, multi-cloud and multi-region capabilitiesCAST AI protects workloads against downtime with a Disaster Avoidance strategy based on cloud neutrality and multi-cloud capabilities. To achieve 100% uptime, CAST AI adopts the active approach to Disaster Recovery by stretching applications and data across multiple clouds so that a cloud failure never becomes a disaster. Underlying all of our technology is a custom multi-cloud networking layer that makes the magic happen. | $108M / Series C / Apr 30, 2025 | |
Savant Labs
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Savant Labs provides an intuitive analytics automation platform that empowers users to perform data analysis with no-code and low-code tools. The platform integrates modern data sources and SaaS applications, enabling rapid insights through visual workflows and generative AI. | $18.5M / Series A / Jan 30, 2025 | |
Rhombus Systems
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Rhombus provides intelligent cloud-managed video security for enterprises that do not require complicated servers or NVRs. Rhombus was founded by a group of engineers who previously founded and sold two businesses, the most recent of which was Mojave Networks, which was acquired by Sophos. Because of their extensive experience working withenterprise IT organizations, the founding team witnessed firsthand how difficult existing enterprise physical security systems were to use and wondered why these systems couldn't be as simple to use as consumer ones. | $45M / Series C / Jul 30, 2024 | |
Neural Propulsion Systems
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Neural Propulsion Systems is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. | $17.5M / Series B / Mar 07, 2024 | |
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Rhombus Systems
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Rhombus provides intelligent cloud-managed video security for enterprises that do not require complicated servers or NVRs. Rhombus was founded by a group of engineers who previously founded and sold two businesses, the most recent of which was Mojave Networks, which was acquired by Sophos. Because of their extensive experience working withenterprise IT organizations, the founding team witnessed firsthand how difficult existing enterprise physical security systems were to use and wondered why these systems couldn't be as simple to use as consumer ones. | $26M / Series B / Feb 27, 2024 | |
CellFE
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CellFE is a company developing a microfluidics based device to deliver gene-editing molecules. CellFE developed microfluidic device and process that can efficiently deliver gene-editing molecules into the human cells. | $22M / Series A / Sep 27, 2023 | |
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Savant Labs
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Savant Labs provides an intuitive analytics automation platform that empowers users to perform data analysis with no-code and low-code tools. The platform integrates modern data sources and SaaS applications, enabling rapid insights through visual workflows and generative AI. | $11M / Seed / Mar 01, 2023 | |
310.ai
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At 310 AI, our aim is to build the generative AI engine that will make programmable biology a reality. | $3.7M / Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | |
Compliance.ai
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Compliance.ai’s mission is to transform the way highly regulated organizations address compliance risk, and to modernize the rule making process for both the regulators and the regulated entities. Our platform automates complex compliance processes and workflows to foster collaboration, transparency and trust across all stakeholders. Takingadvantage of a comprehensive collection of curated regulatory content, Compliance.ai enables compliance teams to stay abreast of regulatory changes as they occur, in near-real-time, helping them reduce exposure to non-compliance (audits and penalties, reducing uncertainty, and helping slash the cost/time traditionally associated with regulatory research. | $6M / Series B / Aug 02, 2022 | |
Uplevel
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Uplevel is a software engineering intelligence platform for enterprise companies navigating AI transformation. Where most tools help organizations move faster, Uplevel helps them move in the right direction — pairing continuous measurement with contextual diagnosis and expert capability building so teams understand what AI is actually amplifyingbefore they accelerate it. The result is an engineering organization that can prove its value to the business and adapt as conditions keep changing. | $20M / Series A / Jul 11, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Cota Capital
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.
Cota Capital Contacts
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Aditya Singh
General Partner
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Aleksander Gustav Mohn
Vice President
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Babak Poushanchi
Founder & Managing Partner
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Bobby Yazdani
Founder & Partner
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Chad Cohen
Operating Partner
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What does Bobby Yazdani invest in?
Bobby Yazdani invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 129 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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