# John Cowgill

> John Cowgill is a seed investor at Costanoa Ventures backing Software and Information Technology. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Costanoa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/costanoaventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 53%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcowgill/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/johncowgill
- Website: https://x.com/johncowgill

John Cowgill is a Partner of Costanoa Ventures. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company as a Business Analyst. John Cowgill attended Northwestern University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 14% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 11% |
| Security | 3 | 8% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 28% |
| Series A | 9 | 25% |
| Series B | 9 | 25% |
| Series C | 3 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 44% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Empirical Security | Empirical builds mathematical models for security data. | $25M | Series A | Jul 20, 2026 |  |
| Manifold | 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 |  |
| Definite | Definite is a data platform that enables businesses to connect, organize, and analyze their data from various sources, including CRMs, billing systems, and marketing platforms. The platform consolidates data into a unified view and uses AI to automate workflows and generate insights. Users can ask questions in plain language and receive reports andvisualizations based on their data, eliminating the need for SQL queries. The interface allows for the creation of dashboards and automation of data analysis without requiring extensive technical expertise. Definite provides secure data storage and is designed to scale with the growth of the business, helping organizations make data-driven decisions more efficiently. | $10M | Seed | Aug 21, 2025 |  |
| Empirical Security | Empirical builds mathematical models for security data. | $11.9M | Seed | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Muon Space | 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. | $44.5M | Series B | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| dweva.com | System Two Security offers a platform that combines AI agents and assistants to support detection engineering teams in processing intelligence, creating new detections, and managing detection libraries. The system enables users to draft and refine detections based on threat intelligence and coverage gaps. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 04, 2024 |  |
| Numa | NumberAI develops artificial intelligence software Numa. It enables small businesses to connect their landline numbers digitally and interact with them in a lot of the same ways consumers expect today. Andrew Ruff, Joel Grossman, and Tasso Roumeliotis founded NumberAI in 2016. It has its headquarters in Oakland in California. | $32M | Series B | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Muon Space | 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. | $56.7M | Series B | Aug 05, 2024 |  |
| RunReveal | RunReveal is a security data platform designed to address the changing hazards of the digital era. | $2.5M | Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| RunReveal | RunReveal is a security data platform designed to address the changing hazards of the digital era. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Equal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equal-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [BAM Elevate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bam-elevate) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ubiquity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ubiquity-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ClearSky](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-sky) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Congruent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/congruent-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Foundry Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundryvc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Costanoa Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Costanoa Ventures leads Formation, Seed, and Series A stage investments in companies that change the way the world does business.

5 contacts available at Costanoa Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amy Cheetham | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-cheetham |
| David Cheng | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-cheng-5 |
| Gregory Sands | Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-sands |
| Jim Wilson | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-wilson-5 |
| John Cowgill | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-cowgill |

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## FAQ

### What does John Cowgill invest in?

John Cowgill invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 36 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did John Cowgill last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Cowgill closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 36 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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