# CSC Upshot

> CSC Upshot is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Financial Services. See 112 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 112
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 5%
- Fund size: $400M
- Last fund: Oct 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/csc-upshot-ventures/
- Website: https://www.csc-upshot.vc

CSC Upshot is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Financial Services. 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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 31 | 28% |
| Financial Services | 17 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 15% |
| SaaS | 15 | 13% |
| Health Care | 13 | 12% |

202 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 71 | 63% |
| Series A | 26 | 23% |
| Series B | 7 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 3% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 103 | 92% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aasawari Chitnis | Office Operations Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aasawari-chitnis |
| Anuja Lele | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anuja-lele |
| Huoy-Ming Yeh | Founder, Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/huoy-ming-yeh |
| Jessie Wu | Investment Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessie-wu-c1ea |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vantage Robotics | 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 | 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 |  |
| Truepill | 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 | 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 |  |
| Intermix.io | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Starsky Robotics | Trucking is the backbone of the American economy, moving 70% of all freight. Truck drivers risk their lives spending months away from their family to keep the American economy moving.They working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by drivers for the first and last mile. Their trucks will make roads safer while givingdrivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. | $16.5M | Series A | Mar 08, 2018 |  |
| Uplevel Security | Uplevel Security is the industry’s first adaptive system of intelligence that uses graph theory and machine learning to modernize security operations. Uplevel Security ingests and contextualizes incoming and historical security data, allowing the past to inform the present and the present to inform the past, which predicts how attacks may manifestin the future. Enterprises rely on Uplevel Security to activate intelligence from the security stack, provide a system of record for security data and become stronger with every attack. |  | Seed | Feb 06, 2018 |  |
| DotDashPay | DotDashPay buils a payment systems that allow consumers to seamlessly transact and enable merchants to analyze and control the entire payment experience. |  |  | Jan 01, 2018 |  |

10 of 112 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Hone Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hone-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Caffeinated Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caffeinated-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does CSC Upshot invest in?

CSC Upshot invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 112 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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### 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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