Gregory Sands
Founder and Managing Director @ Costanoa Ventures
Palo Alto, United States
Gregory Sands is a Series A investor at Costanoa Ventures in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Gregory Sands is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Founder & Managing Partner of Costanoa Ventures. Gregory previously worked at Sutter Hill as a Managing Director. Gregory Sands attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 86
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
Last updated:
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Industries Gregory Sands invests in
Stages Gregory Sands invests in
Countries Gregory Sands invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (13%)
- SaaS 6 (7%)
- Machine Learning 6 (7%)
- Analytics 5 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 23 (27%)
- Series B 15 (17%)
- Seed 9 (10%)
- Series C 6 (7%)
- Series D 5 (6%)
Country
- United States 31 (36%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Germany 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Smack's domain-specific models assess multimodal data streams in real time, transforming them into campaign-informed decisions across the kill chain within seconds. | $32M / Series A / Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| Tenna Systems develops a platform that supports real-time monitoring, geolocation, and mitigation of radio-frequency interference to help maintain dependable connectivity for mission-critical systems. Its technology is informed by extensive experience in electromagnetic warfare and is designed to enhance awareness of RF activity across complexoperational environments. Tip&Cue supports defense, aerospace, and mobility organizations by enabling detection and analysis of interference sources and by strengthening the resilience of systems that depend on spectrum availability. | $13.5M / Seed / Feb 08, 2026 | ||
| Mindtrip operates as an AI assistant that provide travel data that includes maps with suggested places to visit. | Seed / Dec 04, 2025 | ||
| AI can create content, but Markup AI’s Content Guardian AgentsSM perfect your content. Our API- and MCP-first solution delivers content guardrails directly where your content lives. Markup AI instantly scans, scores, and rewrites any content to enforce your standards for brand voice, terminology, and compliance. Markup AI gives you the confidenceyou need to scale your use of AI. | $27.5M / Series A / Sep 17, 2025 | ||
| StackHawk is a computer software company that specializes in website and software maintenance and detecting bugs. The company provides documentation, and automate the pipeline to prevent future bugs from hitting prod. StackHawk was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $12M / Series B / May 22, 2025 | ||
| Modern enterprise authorization with human-readable policies and an understanding of business context to deliver just-in-time authorization | $30M / Series A / Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| 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. | $3M / Seed / Feb 07, 2025 | ||
| Highnote is an embedded finance company developing a virtual payment platform to handle complex payment processing business flows.Utilizing the developer-friendly Highnote platform, product and engineering teams at digital enterprises of all sizes can easily and efficiently embed virtual and physical payment cards (commercial and consumerprepaid, debit, credit, and charge), ledger, and wallet capabilities into their existing products, creating compelling value for users while growing revenue and building a unique and differentiated brand. | $125M / Series B / Jan 21, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Costanoa Ventures
Costanoa Ventures leads Formation, Seed, and Series A stage investments in companies that change the way the world does business.
Costanoa Ventures Contacts
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Amy Cheetham
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David Cheng
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Gregory Sands
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Jim Wilson
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John Cowgill
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What does Gregory Sands invest in?
Gregory Sands invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 86 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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The most recent investment recorded for Gregory Sands closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 86 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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