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Costanoa Ventures Opportunity Fund III

Geography: United States
Stage: Seed
Fund size: $119M
Focus: AI/ML and SaaS
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Costanoa Ventures Opportunity Fund III

Costanoa Ventures Opportunity Fund III is a venture capital firm based in United States, focusing on Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in AI/ML, SaaS, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StageSeed

Industry Focus

AI/ML

SaaS

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Enterprise software founders solving big, hard problems

enterprise software

hard problems

long-term partnership

early-stage to Series B

national security / govtech

AI / frontier labs

healthcare / HSA

Bullish Signals

Deep hands-on post-investment GP supportexternal

Portfolio spans HSA, AI, national securityexternal

Greg Sands treated as co-founder by foundersexternal

Multi-year engagement: better post-term-sheet than otherscostanoa.com

Recent portfolio wins: SGNL, Ivo, Smack Techcostanoa.com

Founders call Greg first: co-founder trust levelcostanoa.com

Better post-signature support than most VC firmscostanoa.com

Vannevar, Lively, founders cite team extension feelingcostanoa.com

Pattern recognition in enterprise software company buildingcostanoa.com

Post-term-sheet engagement exceeds pre-signature supportcostanoa.com

Bold Ideas Enduring Companies: core brand promisecostanoa.com

Pragmatic approach to complicated business challengescostanoa.com

Contrarian Signals

Select few bets — low volumeexternal

Heavy GP involvement may not suit allexternal

Founder Do's

Tackle big, hard, structural problems

Value deep ongoing GP engagement

Build enterprise software companies

Expect long-term co-founder-like relationship

Come with bold, durable company vision

Founder Don'ts

Don't expect hands-off investors

Don't pitch incremental or niche ideas

Don't expect best treatment pre-investment only

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size$119M

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Website

People

Key People

Greg Sands, John Cowgill

Greg SandsFounder & Managing Partner

Taylor BernalDirector of Marketing & Platform

Joni KlippertCEO & Co-Founder

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