# Luciana Castro

> Luciana Castro is a startup investor at Northgate Capital. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Northgate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northgate-capital)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciana-castro-79a9927

Luciana Castro is a startup investor at Northgate Capital. Luciana Castro is the Head of Investor Relations at Northgate where she leads the firm’s investor relations, fundraising and marketing efforts. Ms. Castro applies her more than 15 years of venture capital investor relations and marketing experience to serve Northgate’s limited partners and to cultivate relationships with prospective investors.Prior to Northgate, Ms. Castro worked with technology and life sciences venture capital firms such as Asset Management Ventures, Abingworth, Versant Ventures, Trident Capital and VantagePoint Capital Partners. Her work centered on fundraising, relationship management and marketing. Ms. Castro received an MBA from Boston University and a BA from Bowdoin College.

## About Northgate Capital

VC Fund · Danville, United States

Founded in 2000, Northgate Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm with investment offices in San Francisco and London, and an affiliate office in Mexico City. Collectively, the firm manages $4.8Bn in AuM and employs 50+ investment and finance professionals across its global locations. Northgate’s investment programs focus onventure capital – Fund-of-Funds and Direct – with additional programs in private equity – global small market Fund-of-Funds, Mexico growth equity and mezzanine finance.

5 contacts available at Northgate Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Allan Chou | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allan-chou |
| Brent Jones | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brent-jones |
| Casey Gordon | Interim Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/casey-gordon |
| Jean Acuna Ruiz | Professional | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-acuna-ruiz |
| Luciana Castro | VP of Investor Relations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luciana-castro |

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