CSC Upshot
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
CSC Upshot is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Founded in 2015, CSC Upshot Ventures is an early-stage venture fund focusing on providing seed capital to technology companies at scale. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the enterprise, artificial intelligence, healthcare, Fintech, and the marketplace. In close partnership with AngelList, CSC Upshot Ventures built a new model ofventure investing based on the needs of founders, investors, and startup communities.
- Total investments:
- 307
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
- Fund size:
- $400M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries CSC Upshot invests in
Stages CSC Upshot invests in
Countries CSC Upshot invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $775k–$4.5M
- Series A
- $4M–$17M
- Series B
- $13M–$52M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 93 (30%)
- Artificial Intelligence 40 (13%)
- Health Care 38 (12%)
- SaaS 36 (12%)
- Financial Services 32 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 188 (61%)
- Series A 66 (21%)
- Series B 26 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (3%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (2%)
Country
- United States 276 (90%)
- United Kingdom 6 (2%)
- Canada 4 (1%)
- Brazil 3 (1%)
- Mexico 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Aasawari Chitnis
Office Operations Manager
|
Office Operations Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Anuja Lele
Chief Financial Officer
|
Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Huoy-Ming Yeh
Founder, Managing Partner
|
Founder, Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jessie Wu
Investment Associate
|
Investment Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vantage Robotics is a technology company that makes amazing aerial videos easy for commercial operations over people. The company has created a massively differentiated flying camera to compete in the $7 B camera drone market by solving the ease of use problem. Vantage's first product, Snap, has generated over $1 M in pre-sales and achieveda landmark FAA waiver for commercial use near people with CNN. Apple, Amazon, and the largest drone distributor in the US are all interested in selling Snap, with combined forecasted sales of over $100 M annually. Investors include Andy von Flotow, one of the most successful drone entrepreneurs in the US, Bill Tai, Blake Krikorian, CrunchFund, Ruvento, and Accelerator Ventures. Vantage began shipping Snap in Q2 17 to rave reviews. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 05, 2023 | ||
| Vivid Vision uses the virtual reality to help people with lazy eye (amblyopia and strabismus) improve their vision. James Blaha, the creator of Diplopia, gained 3D vision and use of his lazy eye with the alpha version of the software. | Series A / Mar 13, 2020 | ||
| AirCare offers free report on air travel climate impact in seconds and help offset carbon emissions. | Pre-Seed / Aug 01, 2019 | ||
| Truepill is a B2B pharmacy fulfillment service. They provide a pharmacy API and fulfillment of medications to 50 states from their own facilities. They work directly with D2C consumer brands (e.g. Hims, Nurx), digital health companies, and other healthcare organizations. They are a team of 150 employees and have raised funding from InitializedCapital, Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Sound Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Foundation Capital, Index Ventures, Social Capital, Box Group, Joe Montana, and others.Founded in 2016 by Umar Afridi and Sid Viswanathan, Truepill is headquartered in San Mateo, California. | $10M / Series A / Mar 12, 2019 | ||
| Tigera empowers organizations to secure, observe, and troubleshoot containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. Its commercial products include Calico Enterprise, a self-managed security and observability platform, and Calico Cloud, a Kubernetes-native cloud service that extends the declarative nature of Kubernetes. Its open-source offering, Calico OpenSource, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Tigera’s solutions specify security and observability as code to ensure consistent enforcement of security policies, which enables DevOps, platform, and security teams to protect workloads, detect threats, achieve continuous compliance, and troubleshoot service issues in real time. Powering more than 100M containers across 1.5M nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including AT&T, Discover, Merck, ServiceNow, HanseMerkur, RealPage, L3Harris, and Mindbody. | $30M / Series B / Dec 12, 2018 | ||
| Gif Your Game is an operator of a video-based e-learning site that creates high-resolution video clips of gaming moments. The company focuses on a specific game with a marketplace of coaching and replay analysis attached as a further way to improve skills outside of the training program. | $4.5M / Seed / Jun 28, 2018 | ||
| Intermix.io is a provider of performance monitoring solution. Moreover, the company's performance monitoring products helps data teams monitor critical data flows, identify bottlenecks, and root cause analysis. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $3.1M / Seed / May 01, 2018 | ||
| Cobalt builds indoor robots that work alongside human guards to provide security. It offers indoor security robots that do patrolling in the premises, as well as look for intruders or anything that's out of the ordinary; and comprise intruder and anomaly detection, human-robot interaction, and mapping and sensing capabilities. Erik Schluntzand Travis Deyle founded it in 2016, with its headquarters in San Mateo in California. | $13M / Series A / Mar 30, 2018 | ||
| Cobalt builds indoor robots that work alongside human guards to provide security. It offers indoor security robots that do patrolling in the premises, as well as look for intruders or anything that's out of the ordinary; and comprise intruder and anomaly detection, human-robot interaction, and mapping and sensing capabilities. Erik Schluntzand Travis Deyle founded it in 2016, with its headquarters in San Mateo in California. | $13M / Series A / Mar 30, 2018 | ||
| Chia Network is building a blockchain based on proofs of space and time to make a cryptocurrency that is less wasteful, more decentralized, and more secure. | $3.4M / Seed / Mar 28, 2018 | ||
| See all 307 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does CSC Upshot invest in?
CSC Upshot invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 307 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 CSC Upshot's check size?
CSC Upshot typically joins rounds of $775k–$4.5M at Seed, $4M–$17M at Series A and $13M–$52M 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 CSC Upshot participates in.
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Who are the partners at CSC Upshot?
The team at CSC Upshot includes Aasawari Chitnis (Office Operations Manager), Anuja Lele (Chief Financial Officer) and Huoy-Ming Yeh (Founder, Managing Partner). 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 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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