Costanoa Ventures — Seed VC Firm ($500K–$3.0M Checks)
Costanoa Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California investing in Security, Developer Tools, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 37 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 37 companies on record
- Partners
- 6 listed
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- Security, Developer Tools, AI / ML, SaaS, Other, Enterprise, Fintech
- HQ
- Palo Alto, California
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-03
Seed
$500K – $3.0M
37+ companies
6 partners
Investment Thesis
Seed-stage fund that backs enterprise software and security companies, with a strong interest in infrastructure layers and security workflows. Relevant to products that secure modern software and AI systems.
How Costanoa Ventures invests
Costanoa Ventures is a vc firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Security, Developer Tools, AI / ML, SaaS, Other.
Costanoa Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment. Our records include 1 fund raised by the firm.
Costanoa Ventures has backed 37 companies in our records, including alation, auterion, basis theory.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Fund III
Portfolio Companies (37)
Other
alation
auterion
Autonomy software for drones and robotics
basis theory
cape
Privacy-focused mobile carrier
comun
cyberhaven
Data security and insider-risk protection platform
empirical
felder
hidden level
Passive radar and sensor network company
ivo
- •Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Security, Developer Tools, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Taylor Bernal, Director Of Marketing.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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