Costanoa Ventures
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Costanoa Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Costanoa Ventures leads Formation, Seed, and Series A stage investments in companies that change the way the world does business.
- Total investments:
- 286
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
- Fund size:
- $2M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Costanoa Ventures invests in
Stages Costanoa Ventures invests in
Countries Costanoa Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$10M
- Series A
- $5.6M–$25M
- Series B
- $12M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 53 (19%)
- Artificial Intelligence 38 (13%)
- Information Technology 34 (12%)
- SaaS 22 (8%)
- Financial Services 18 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 81 (28%)
- Series A 71 (25%)
- Series B 46 (16%)
- Series C 14 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 11 (4%)
Country
- United States 126 (44%)
- Brazil 3 (1%)
- Mexico 3 (1%)
- Germany 2 (1%)
- Egypt 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amy Cheetham
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
David Cheng
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Gregory Sands
Founder and Managing Director
|
Founder and Managing Director | Total investments: 86 | Find email | |
Jim Wilson
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
John Cowgill
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 37 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Market Leading Voice AI for Mortgage. | $15M / Series A / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Onos' AI platform empowers health plans to discern care quality, take meaningful action, and bend the value curve. | $17M / Series A / Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| Muon Space is an end-to-end space systems company that designs, builds, and operates mission-optimized satellite constellations to deliver critical data and enable real-time compute and decision-making in space. Its proprietary technology stack, Halo™, integrates advanced spacecraft platforms, robust payload integration and management, and apowerful software-defined orchestration layer to enable high-performance capabilities at unprecedented speed – from concept to orbit. With state-of-the-art production facilities in Silicon Valley and a growing track record of commercial and national security customers, Muon Space is redefining how critical Earth intelligence is delivered from space. | $250M / Series C / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| Smack's domain-specific models assess multimodal data streams in real time, transforming them into campaign-informed decisions across the kill chain within seconds. | $61M / Series B / Aug 17, 2026 | ||
| Empirical builds mathematical models for security data. | $25M / Series A / Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| Self Inspection is a provider of an AI-powered platform for the automotive inspection market. Its platform allows companies to complete a computer vision-based guided vehicle inspection in a few minutes on any phone, using AI to evaluate damages and estimate fix costs. The tech streamlines lease-end, trade-in, rental, transportation, and insuranceclaim vehicle inspections, creating a frictionless future while enabling trust and deep analytics every time a vehicle changes hands. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| Itera provides digital consulting, AI, cloud, software development and technology services for businesses across industries. | $12M / Seed / May 27, 2026 | ||
| Natter provides a web-based conversational intelligence platform that enables organizations to gather, analyze, and act on large-scale qualitative feedback through real-time video interactions and AI-driven insights. The platform allows companies to engage employees, customers, or stakeholders in structured conversations, capturing responsessimultaneously and converting them into summarized insights for decision-making. Its core functionality centers on running live or asynchronous video conversations at scale, where participants respond to prompts and questions, and the system processes these inputs using AI to generate themes, trends, and actionable outputs. This approach replaces traditional surveys and focus groups by delivering faster and more nuanced qualitative data.Natter includes analytics and reporting tools that transform conversational data into structured insights, enabling teams to identify patterns, surface ideas, and prioritize actions across areas such as human resources, product development, sales, and strategy. The platform supports large participant volumes, allowing organizations to capture input from entire workforces or customer bases in a short time frame. | $23M / Series A / Apr 07, 2026 | ||
| Shepherd is an Insurtech that offers tech-enabled insurance for commercial construction. | $42M / Series B / Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| Manifold Security offers an agentless AI Detection and Response (AIDR) platform for securing autonomous AI agents on enterprise endpoints.It captures agent behaviors in real-time, including API calls, file access, command execution, and interactions with external services like MCP servers or databases. Security teams gain visibility intoagent-tool-system relationships, mapping connections to internal and external resources without new infrastructure, gateways, or proxies. | $8M / Seed / Mar 18, 2026 | ||
| See all 286 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Costanoa Ventures invest in?
Costanoa Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 286 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Costanoa Ventures's check size?
Costanoa Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$10M at Seed, $5.6M–$25M at Series A and $12M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Costanoa Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Costanoa Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Costanoa Ventures?
The team at Costanoa Ventures includes Amy Cheetham (Partner), David Cheng (General Partner) and Gregory Sands (Founder and Managing Director), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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