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.
- Total investments:
- 186
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
- Fund size:
- $3.5M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Cota Capital invests in
Stages Cota Capital invests in
Countries Cota Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$12M
- Series A
- $3M–$24M
- Series B
- $6M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 33 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 29 (16%)
- Health Care 18 (10%)
- Financial Services 18 (10%)
- Information Technology 18 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 43 (23%)
- Seed 41 (22%)
- Series B 28 (15%)
- Series C 15 (8%)
- Funding Round 14 (8%)
Country
- United States 106 (57%)
- United Kingdom 3 (2%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- France 1 (1%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aditya Singh
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Aleksander Gustav Mohn
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Babak Poushanchi
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bobby Yazdani
Founder & Partner
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Founder & Partner | Total investments: 110 | Find email | |
Chad Cohen
Operating Partner
|
Operating Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 20 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Canyon Code
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Canyon Code is an enterprise AI infrastructure company that builds a workflow intelligence layer for managing advanced software agents. The platform gives companies real-time visibility into the exact cost, performance, and bottlenecks of their multi-agent applications. By utilizing workflow-aware routing, it helps businesses eliminate avoidablecomputing waste that standard token-level tools miss. Additionally, the software allows teams to enforce strict security compliance and governance policies at an enterprise scale. | $5M / Pre-Seed / May 26, 2026 | |
Esper
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Esper helps build an infrastructure to support the full policymaking lifecycle in government and create a single source of truth for policy. Esper works with dozens of government agencies to streamline internal workflows and manage policymaking with ease. The company has grown to over 30 employees and raised over $14 million in funding. Esper’sclients include the New York City Police Department, Washington Department of Health and California State Treasurer’s Office. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 10, 2026 | |
Kilo Code
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Kilo Code AI provides an open-source AI-powered coding assistant that integrates directly into popular development environments like Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs. The platform functions as an AI coding agent that can generate code from natural-language instructions, automate repetitive tasks, assist with debugging, and help navigate largecodebases using features such as semantic search and memory context. It supports over 400 AI models and lets developers mix and match providers or use its built-in gateway with transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing tied to underlying model rates. Kilo Code includes multiple operational modes, such as planning workflows, writing code, and debugging, and enables parallel AI agents to tackle complex projects within the IDE. The system also maintains project context across sessions so it can recall previous work and provide consistent assistance. A community-driven project with an open-source codebase, it is accessible for individual developers and teams aiming to enhance productivity and reduce manual coding overhead. | $8M / Seed / Dec 10, 2025 | |
Movandi
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Movandi is the fastest growing 5G mmWave solutions company with a mission to revolutionize 5G Everywhere. The company was founded by two siblings, Maryam and Reza Rofougaran, today’s top leaders in the wireless industry, whose innovations have shaped and transformed wireless in the last few decades. Having pioneered wireless systems. Movandi issolving real-world 5G mmWave deployments with unmatched differentiation and high performance core technology in 5G integrated circuits, antennas, systems, and algorithms design disciplines, to enable 5G to its full potential. Movandi’s flexible solutions solve 5G mmWave deployment cost and schedule challenges and provide future-proof solutions utilizing mesh and routing to further improve 5G coverage and capacity. Movandi’s strong and diverse system portfolio of IP and patents plays a critical role across the complete 5G ecosystem, from infrastructure to mobile, while allowing for maximum 5G coverage. | $40M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 14, 2025 | |
Upscale AI
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Upscale AI is a high‑performance AI networking company accelerating AI democratization with open‑standard and full‑stack turnkey solutions. | $100M / Seed / Sep 17, 2025 | |
Tote.ai
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Tote.ai presents an AI-native point-of-sale system that unifies pump-to-checkout shopping, streamlines operations, and supports associates. | $22.6M / Aug 18, 2025 | |
Mission Bio
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Mission Bio delivers targeted solutions for high-impact applications with the Tapestri Platform. The Tapestri Platform is the industry’s first and only single-cell multi-omics platform, enabling genotype and phenotype from the same cell and precise detection of heterogeneity in disease progression and treatment response. Application areas includeoncology blood cancers, solid tumors, and genome editing validation. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 05, 2025 | |
Memebox
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Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed). | $6.5M / Convertible Note / Jul 09, 2025 | |
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 | |
Amplifier Security
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Amplifier Security utilizes AI-powered technology to enable security teams to modernize their approach. The company offers security solutions for enterprises, uniting technology and human expertise to enhance an organization's security posture. | $5.6M / Seed / Apr 24, 2025 | |
| See all 186 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Cota Capital invest in?
Cota Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 186 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 Cota Capital's check size?
Cota Capital typically joins rounds of $2M–$12M at Seed, $3M–$24M at Series A and $6M–$45M 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 Cota Capital participates in.
How do I contact Cota Capital?
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Who are the partners at Cota Capital?
The team at Cota Capital includes Aditya Singh (General Partner), Aleksander Gustav Mohn (Vice President) and Babak Poushanchi (Founder & Managing Partner), among 20 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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