Founded in 2012, Costanoa Venture Capital is an early stage investor focused on cloud-based services solving real problems for businesses and consumers by leveraging data and analytics. The firm's name originates from the first inhabitants of Silicon Valley, the Costanoans, and harkens back to the origins of entrepreneurship and venture capital in Silicon Valley.

Notable investments include 3scale, Alation, Apptimize, DemandBase, Datalogix (acquired by Oracle), Gamechanger, Grovo, Guardian Analytics, Inflection, Intacct, Kahuna, Lex Machina, LinkSmart (acquired by VigLink), NovoEd, Return Path, Risk I/O, StitchLabs and VictorOps.