Costanoa Ventures

Today marks an important milestone–announcing our Fund V and Opportunity Fund III! And now the fun begins! We’re excited to continue investing this capital as early as Day One in startups across AI-Enabled SaaS, Data & AI Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, National Security, and Fintech. We’re also thrilled to announce that John Cowgill has been promoted to General Partner. Having led our investments in industry leaders like AppOmni, Cyberhaven, Kepler Communications Inc. and Muon Space, John has not only built our Cybersecurity and Space practices, but has also proven himself to be an exceptional partner to founders. Read more in Greg's latest piece ?? bit.ly/3Xwzm4t #venturecapital #startups #fundraising

Founders are losing sleep over GTM strategy and ?????? AI, according to High Alpha's 2024 SaaS Benchmarks report. Check out the full report for more useful insights from 800+ SaaS companies to help build a data-driven strategy for 2025 ??: https://lnkd.in/gHc4UbW9 #startups #saas #gtm #venturecapital

Held a curated dinner with a set of incredible early stage founders in SF with Amy Cheetham last night: from SaaS solutions for fuel distribution to elective medicine to hardware design. What a fun night! Thanks to Costanoa Ventures and all the founders who joined.

It's a big day for Cape! Originally designed for national security professionals, Cape offers protection against carrier compromise, location stalking, malicious signaling, cell site simulators, and SIM swapping. Today, they're expanding by launching their ultra-secure cell phone service to private citizens who need it most–individuals at high risk such as domestic abuse survivors, elected officials, and journalists, to name a few. And they're hiring! Check out their open roles ?? jobs.costanoa.vc/jobs/cape #startups #privacy #cybersecurity #hiring

?? Today we're launching an ultra-secure cell phone service tailored for individuals at high risk, like elected officials, executives, and journalists. Originally designed for national security professionals, #Cape offers protection against carrier compromise, location stalking, malicious signaling, cell site simulators, and SIM swapping. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eAW3FJk2

Our latest edition of #BuilderOpsBlueprints?is a twofer with the founders of Delphina, Jeremy Hermann and Duncan Gilchrist! Delphina harnesses generative AI to automate foundational data science tasks, uncovering and cleaning relevant data to ultimately transform noise to meaningful signal. In our Q&A, Jeremy and Duncan dive into their customer discovery process, the secrets to great cofounder dynamics, their new data science podcast ???????? ????????????, and practical advice for early-stage startups. P.S. If you’re interested in working at the edge of machine learning and AI, check out open roles ?? https://lnkd.in/g7iVpWAj -- #BuilderOpsBlueprints is a newsletter on company building foundations for early-stage startups by the BuilderOps team at Costanoa Ventures, highlighting learnings from founders and startup leaders. Make sure to hit the subscribe button!??? #founders #startups #datascience #artificialintelligence #machinelearning

If you’ve been impacted by recent layoffs in our industry, we’re here to support you. ?? We're looking for talented professionals to join our mission of making Earth intelligence accessible to help protect our planet’s people, climate, and ecosystems. We're proud to offer our team members ample perks and benefits to support their health and happiness, such as competitive compensation, catered lunch, parental leave, and more. If you're passionate about space and empowering humanity to respond to global challenges and support a livable planet, we'd love to meet you! Explore opportunities and apply today: muonspace.com/careers

Yesterday Costanoa Ventures hosted graduate students and start up founders from the UC Davis Student Startup Center. It's great to see students and young founders building products to make an impact in the world, and I was especially proud they were fellow Aggies! Keep up the awesome work with your program Aaron Mondell Anderson. Special thank you to Craig Rosenberg (Scale Ventures) plus Umberto Milletti and Brian Babcock (Demandbase) for hosting separate sessions, as well as Ching-Yu Hu and Mark Selcow for speaking to the group. Go Aggies!

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Databricks Alumni Happy Hour hosted by Rebecca Li, Bill C., & Tony Liu! Fun fact: the group shot is everyone lined up in chronological order of start date from right to left!

In our recent survey, we found that over half of founders are using 4 or more foundation models. “The foundation model landscape is changing fast. On one hand, the converging trend on model performance has led to people choosing a variety of models; on the other hand, lots of people still choose the top 3 shops as a more future-proof option as the state of the frontier keeps moving forward.” - Rebecca Li. Thanks Daniel Gutierrez for featuring our survey findings on Inside AI News: https://bit.ly/4fe2ipF Full survey here ?? https://lnkd.in/gpKMdpYD #artificialintelligence #AI #startups OpenAI Anthropic AI at Meta Mistral AI Gemini AI