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21.03.2025 | Rerun's $17 Million Seed Funding: A Leap into the Future of Physical AI | In the bustling world of technology, a new player is making waves. Rerun, a Stockholm-based startup, has just secured $17 million in seed funding. This infusion of capital is set to fuel the development of a groundbreaking multimodal data s... |
21.03.2025 | Rerun Raises $17Million to Build the Data Infrastructure Powering the Physical AI Revolution | Computer vision and robotics veterans create the first multimodal data stack purpose-built for robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones and spatial computing
Rerun, the company building the multimodal data stack for Physical AI, today announce... |
20.03.2025 | Rerun gets $17M to build the essential data infrastructure for AI-powered robots, drones and cars
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One click below support... | Stockholm-based startup Rerun.io AB announced today it has raised $17 million in seed funding to build out a multimodal data stack for what it calls “physical AI.”
Today’s round was led by Point Nine and saw participation from Sunflower Cap... |
07.02.2025 | Self Inspection привлек $3 млн для упрощения осмотра автомобилей с помощью AI | Многие стартапы стремятся упростить и ускорить процесс осмотра автомобилей, а также сделать его дешевле. Self Inspection, стартап из Сан-Диего, считает, что его AI-решение превосходит конкурентов, и теперь он убедил в этом инвесторов.
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06.02.2025 | Hidden Level: $65 Million (Series C) Raised For Drone Detection Systems | Hidden Level – a leader in passive radar and radio frequency sensing technology for detecting and precisely locating drones and other threats – announced $65 million in Series C funding led by DFJ Growth with participation from Booz Allen V... |
05.02.2025 | Hidden Level Soars with $65 Million Series C Funding | In the bustling heart of New York City, a tech company is making waves. Hidden Level, a pioneer in passive radar and radio frequency sensing technology, has secured $65 million in Series C funding. This significant investment marks a crucia... |
03.02.2025 | Drone defense startup Hidden Level raises $65M for growth and security initiatives
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One click below supports our mission t... | Drone defense startup Hidden Level Inc. announced today that it has raised $65 million in new funding to scale manufacturing, expand its headcount, support public safety and enhance its defense capabilities.
Founded in 2018, Hidden Level sp... |
03.02.2025 | Hidden Level closes $65M Series C round | Hidden Level, a maker of sensing technology for detecting and locating drones, has captured $65 million in Series C capital to further expand its manufacturing capacity and staff.
This round closes approximately six months after Hidden Leve... |
14.12.2024 | Чтение на выходные: «Продуктовый маркетинг по любви. Как создавать и продвигать продукты-бестселлеры» Мартины Лаугченгко... | Содержательная и компактная книга про продуктовый маркетинг. Подойдет на выходные и не только. Объясним по порядку что к чему.
Мартина Лаугченгко — эксперт в области маркетинга технических продуктов, партнер Costanoa Ventures, партнер по ма... |
27.11.2024 | The Opportunities Costanoa Ventures Sees In Vertical AI | 4 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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06.11.2024 | Fixify: AI-Based IT Help Desk Solution Provider Secures $25 Million (Series A) | Fixify, an AI-based IT help desk solution provider, announced that it has closed a $25 million Series A funding round co-led by Costanoa Ventures, Decibel Partners and Paladin Capital Group with participation from Scale Venture Partners. An... |
16.10.2024 | ForceMetrics: Decision-Assist Public Safety Platform Company Raises $22 Million | ForceMetrics – a leading decision-assist public safety platform that consolidates critical information for first responders and provides real-time, actionable insights, saving time, money, and lives – announced today that it has raised $22 ... |
29.09.2024 | Costanoa Ventures Surpasses $2 Billion In Assets With Addition Of Two New Funds | Costanoa Ventures, a boutique early-stage venture capital firm, announced the successful closing of two new funds: Costanoa Fund V, a $275 million early-stage fund, and Opportunity Fund III, a $119 million fund for investing in later rounds... |
20.09.2024 | Flink raises $150M, Headline has €776.5M for growth-stage startups, and Ukraine's resilience in adversity | This week we tracked more than 85 tech funding deals worth over €1 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most imp... |
29.08.2024 | The Shifting Sands of Retail: Dollar General's Forecast and Comun's Rise | The retail landscape is shifting. Dollar General, a staple for budget-conscious shoppers, is feeling the heat. Its recent forecast cuts signal a deeper trend: consumers are tightening their belts. Meanwhile, a new player, Comun, is making w... |
28.08.2024 | Comun Raises $21.5M in Series A Funding | Comun, a NYC-based a Latino-founded neobank that provides modern banking solutions to immigrants in the U.S., raised $21.5M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from Animo Ventures, Costanoa Venture... |
26.06.2024 | Hona: Law Firm Client Engagement Platform Company Raises $9.5 Million | Hona – a leading client engagement software platform for law firms – announced that it raised $9.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from Ludlow Ventures, Soma Capital, and Y Combinator.
The com... |
13.06.2024 | Cyberhaven: $88 Million Secured To Protect Enterprise Data | Cyberhaven, a leader in data detection and response (DDR), announced it has raised $88 million in Series C funding led by Adams Street Partners and Khosla Ventures, with significant participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, C... |
18.04.2024 | Cape dials up $61M from a16z and more for mobile service that doesn’t use personal data | AT&T’s recent mega customer data breach — 74 million accounts affected — laid bare how much data carriers have on their users, and also that the data is there for the hacking. On Thursday, a startup called Cape — based out of Washington... |
11.10.2022 | Earthmover to bring petascale data tools to climate tech with $1.7M pre-seed | Shortly after the COVID pandemic hit, inspiration struck Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman. The pair had been watching the “mass mobilization” of the epidemiology research community, Abernathey said.
“Joe and I were both thinking at the time, ... |
21.06.2022 | Helping AI teams make products for physical world, Rerun sprints with $3.2 million | Stockholm-based AI platform Rerun has brought in $3.2 million to allow developers to bring AI products to the physical world. The round saw backing from Silicon Valley VC Costanoa Ventures and European seed investor Seedcamp along with a co... |
06.12.2021 | Costanoa Ventures Closes Two New Funds, Totalling $240M | Costanoa Ventures, a Palo Alto, CA-based venture capital firm, closed its two newest funds, totalling $240M.
These include:
Costanoa Fund IV, its $225m core, early-stage fund, and
Opportunity Fund II, a $115m fund which invests in later rou... |
01.12.2021 | Things are heating up for Costanoa Ventures; closes two oversubscribed funds | Costanoa Ventures is seeing some of its best returns yet as it closed on two new funds, Costanoa Fund IV, a $225 million early-stage fund, and Opportunity Fund II, a $115 million funding investing in later rounds of portfolio companies.
Gre... |
17.11.2021 | Plug raises $2.7M to make payment acceptance in Brazil less terrible | This morning Plug Pagamentos (Plug) announced a $2.7 million seed round, led by Costanoa Ventures‘ latest partner, Amy Cheetham. Other investors in the round included Verve Capital and Norte Ventures, among others. [Update: Also QED and Lat... |
10.11.2021 | Rivian’s IPO shows investors are still keen on venture-like risks | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Public market investors, it seems, are hungry for venture-like risk.
Nowhere is that more apparen... |
10.11.2021 | Rivian’s IPO shows investors are still keen on venture-like risks | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Public market investors, it seems, are hungry for venture-like risk.
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06.07.2021 | Sarah Guo, Kobie Fuller & Casey Aylward headline investor panel at TC Sessions: SaaS | While SaaS has become the default way to deliver software in 2021, it still takes a keen eye to find the companies that will grow into successful businesses, maybe even more so with so much competition. That’s why we’re bringing together th... |
24.03.2021 | Daily funding roundup - March 24th, 2020 | Ginger raised $100M; Pacaso landed $75M; Ketch secured $23M; Kubecost picks up $5.5M
Feedzai: Feedzai is a San Mateo, Ca.-based data science company that prevents, detects, and remediates fraud risk for financial institutions. Feedzai has r... |
13.02.2021 | 9 investors discuss hurdles, opportunities and the impact of cloud vendors in enterprise data lakes | About a decade ago, I remember having a conversation with a friend about big data. At the time, we both agreed that it was the purview of large companies like Facebook, Yahoo and Google, and not something most companies would have to worry ... |
09.09.2020 | Bolster Your Management Team And Board | I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Matt and and many members of his leadership... |
09.09.2020 | Bolster Your Management Team And Board | I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Matt and many members of his leadership tea... |
08.09.2020 | How to spot opportunities and land funding in agriculture tech, the multibillion-dollar industry that's only becoming more crucial with population growth | Tortuga AgTech robots. Tortuga AgTech This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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07.08.2020 | Edtech startup Springboard secures USD 31M from Telstra Ventures | San Francisco based edtech startup, Springboard, announced on Wednesday (5th August, 2020) that it has secured USD 31 million in series B funding round led by new investor Telstra Ventures. a mentor-guided online learning platform, on Wedne... |
21.03.2020 | How to steer a startup through a major downturn | We’re now in the fourth significant financial crisis of my career.
The first was in 1987. I had just graduated college, gotten my first job, and opened a Schwab account. Then the market dropped 23% in one day. Although I was fortunate I had... |
21.03.2020 | How to steer a startup through a major downturn | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We’re now in the fourth significant financial cri... |
08.11.2019 | Research: October Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance | – Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of October 2019
During the month of October, Health IT continued its evoluti... |
20.03.2019 | New Funding for Workplace Software Firms Skedulo and Scope AR | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Two young San Francisco companies on Wednesday announced fundraisings to bolster their online services aimed at improving workforce efficiency.
—Skedulo, which helps managers ... |
27.12.2018 | Why your startup shouldn’t rush to $1 million in revenue | Martina Lauchengco Contributor
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06.12.2018 | Costanoa Ventures Closes $75M Opportunity Fund | Costanoa Ventures, a Palo, Alto, California-based early-stage venture firm focused on tech startups that solve “real-world business problems,” raised $75m for its opportunity fund.
The fund followed Fund III, which closed in September 2017,... |
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30.01.2018 | Costanoa Ventures and NEA Lead Seed Round for Aquabyte | Aquabyte, a startup applying computer vision and machine learning models to dramatically optimize fish farming efficiency, today announced a $3.5 Million Seed Round of funding co-led by Costanoa Ventures and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) ... |
19.12.2017 | India: Online education startup Springboard raises $9.5m Series A led by Costanoa | Premium
Online education start-up Springboard, which provides courses for professionals, on Monday said it has raised $9.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation from Learn Capital and Appdynamics f... |
18.12.2017 | Springboard raises $9.5M to offer an online alternative to the master’s degree | Springboard is a platform that helps people advance their tech skills, and ultimately career. Today it took a step further to realizing its own potential after it landed a $9.5 million Series A round to develop specialisms.
I wrote about th... |
15.09.2017 | Venture Capital Firm Costanoa Ventures Closes Third Fund, at $175M | Costanoa Ventures, a Palo Alto, CA-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise technology startups, closed its third fund, at $175m.
The fund, which brings the total capital under management by the firm to over $500m, focus... |
14.09.2017 | Costanoa Ventures raises $175 million fund | Costanoa Ventures has raised a $175 million fund, the third fund for the Palo Alto-based venture firm.
With a focus on enterprise technology, Costanoa Ventures typically invests at seed stage and Series A. The new fund brings the total capi... |
28.01.2017 | Startups: When and how to go vertical | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In their early days, many software companies find... |
28.01.2017 | Startups: When and how to go vertical | In their early days, many software companies find themselves asking which customers to target. That may mean choosing between small businesses and large enterprises; it may mean choosing if and when to focus on specific verticals.
Going ver... |
21.08.2016 | Why classic B2B positioning statements don’t work | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Positioning statements are one of the most founda... |
21.08.2016 | Why classic B2B positioning statements don’t work | Positioning statements are one of the most foundational marketing tools for any company. So why are so many of them bad?
The popular formula has become so common there’s even a generator that creates one in 30 seconds. Not surprisingly, for... |
11.06.2016 | Product-market fit: It’s all about defining your archetype customer | We meet with many early stage entrepreneurs who have product in market and have moderate early success in getting customers to pay. Their traction isn’t good enough to convince investors that they’ve achieved product-market fit and are read... |
11.06.2016 | Product-market fit: It’s all about defining your archetype customer | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We meet with many early stage entrepreneurs who h... |
20.04.2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 20, 2016 | Cabify bagged $120M; Brighter raised $21M; Fame and Partners secured $10.2M
Beijing-based Yummy Express, China’s O2O solutions provider offering logistics and operations services completed $10 million of Series C Financing, led by ClearVue ... |
12.04.2016 | Popular study app Quizlet creates a game for groups in the classroom, Quizlet Live | Education tech venture Quizlet has finally created a product specifically for use by teachers in their classrooms, dubbed Quizlet Live. It’s an online, question-and-answer matching game for small teams to play face-to-face in the same room.... |
19.03.2016 | We’re entering the era of the full-stack CEO | We’re used to talking about full-stack developers — people who can do front end as well as back end development, understand the layers of both hardware and software, and know how to access (and make accessible) the data and programmatic fun... |
26.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 26, 2016 | Grovo announced $40 funding; Vidyard nabbed $35M; Cedexis closed $22M Series B funding
Grovo, a SaaS-based learning management system (LMS) for companies, today announced that it has closed $40 million in a Series C funding round led by exi... |
23.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 23, 2015 | ColorChip raised $25M; Quizlet secured $12M; Sportpursuit received $14.4M funding
South Korean apartment cleaning service WaHome has received $1 million in a seed investment from Sparklabs Global Ventures, Mashup Angels, Fast Track Asia and... |
18.10.2015 | Hit the brakes? I thought I was blitzscaling?! | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The financing environment for growth technology c... |
18.10.2015 | Hit the brakes? I thought I was blitzscaling?! | The financing environment for growth technology companies (both public and private) has clearly stumbled recently. For whatever reason (precipitous fall in Chinese market, fear of rate increases, etc.), the market has turned from a “maximiz... |
14.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 14, 2015 | GrabTaxi secured $400M; The Honest Company raised $100M; Massdrop bagged $40M
The Honest Company, the subscription service that offers eco-friendly baby and family products, has long been seen as a potential IPO candidate. Now comes a bit o... |
07.07.2015 | Costanoa Venture Capital Closes Second VC Fund, at $135M | Costanoa Venture Capital, a Palo Alto, CA-based early stage venture capital firm, closed its second fund, at $135m.
Founded in 2012, Costanoa Venture Capital focuses on providing Series A and Seed investments to entrepreneurs building cloud... |
13.06.2015 | The Real Silicon Valley | Greg Sands Contributor
Greg Sands is founder and managing partner at Costanoa Venture Capital.
Every time I hear people talking about unicorns, I think “all hat, no cattle” or “another person living in the land of style over substance.” I’v... |
12.03.2015 | Bugcrowd Raises $6M in Series A Funding Round | Bugcrowd, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a crowdsourced security testing platform for the enterprise, raised $6m in Series A funding round.
The round was led by Costanoa Venture Capital, with participation from existing investors Ral... |
18.02.2015 | Apptimize Closes $4m Series A Funding Round | Apptimize, a Menlo Park, CA-based provider of optimization tools for mobile applications, closed a $4m Series A funding round.
The round, which brought total funding to $6m, after a $2.1m seed round in January 2014, was led by Costanoa Vent... |
15.02.2015 | The 4 stages of the sales learning curve for young companies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
About once a week, I hear an entrepreneur during ... |
15.02.2015 | The 4 stages of the sales learning curve for young companies | About once a week, I hear an entrepreneur during a financing presentation tell me that the product is almost ready for General Availability. They say, “Now all we need to do is hire a sales guy.”
It’s a little bit of an overstatement to say... |
25.10.2014 | Security Will Need Big Insight, Not Just Big Data | Neill Occhiogrosso Contributor
Editor’s note: Neill Occhiogrosso is a partner at Costanoa Venture Capital.
In looking for new opportunities in security and many other sectors, we look for the echoes of the current IT mega-trends: cloud, mob... |
18.03.2014 | Amplify Partners closes a $49.1M to invest in IT infrastructure startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Venture capital newcomer Amplify Partners has rai... |
11.10.2013 | Funding Roundup - week ending 10/11/13 | DogVacay, GreenWave, TempoDB, Dollar Shave Club, ERN, elevate DIGITAL all raised new funding
Seed stage
Diagnosia, a European source for medical drug information, raised €1 million from FFG, along with angel investors Christoph Prinz, Micha... |
26.09.2013 | VictorOps Raises $6.5M, Releases Mobile-Capable Tool Kit for DevOps | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Those dreaded late night phone calls that go out to operations and admin guys when everything goes to hell create a sense of brotherhood, at least in the eyes of Todd Vernon, ... |
25.04.2013 | 3scale, participada por Inveready, recibe $4,2M de Javelin VP y Costanoa VC | 25/04/2013
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3SCALE, PARTICIPADA POR INVEREADY, RECIBE $4,2 MILLONES DE JAVELIN VENTURE PARTNERS Y COSTANOA VENTURE CAPITAL.
3scale, la empresa participada por la firma de capital riesgo (venture capital) Inveready proveedor... |
24.04.2013 | 3scale Raises $4.2M in Funding | 3scale, a San Francisco, CA- and Barcelona, Spain-based provider of API Management solutions, raised $4.2m in funding.
Backers included Javelin Venture Partners and Costanoa Venture Capital.
The company intends to use the capital to broaden... |
12.12.2012 | Costanoa Venture Capital lifts the veil off its $100M cloud and ‘big data’ fund | Storied investor Greg Sands (previously of Sutter Hill Ventures) has struck out on his own and successfully raised a first fund for his Silicon Valley-based venture firm Costanoa Venture Capital.
The $100 million fund will be dedicated to e... |
12.12.2012 | Funding Daily: Ugly sweater party | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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12.12.2012 | Costanoa Venture Capital lifts the veil off its $100M cloud and ‘big data’ fund | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Storied investor Greg Sands (previously of Sutter... |
12.12.2012 | Costanoa Venture Capital: A $100M Fund For Startups That Develop Cloud Services For Business And Consumer Markets | Sutter Hill Ventures Greg Sands has left the firm to launch a $100 million fund to invest in early stage, cloud services for businesses and consumers that leverage data and analytics. Costanoa Venture Capital is launching with ten initial i... |
13.11.2012 | Risk I/O Raises $5.25M in Series A Funding | Risk I/O, a Chicago, IL-based developer of a vulnerability intelligence platform, has raised $5.25m in Series A funding.
The round was led by U.S. Venture Partners, with participation from Tugboat Ventures and Greg Sands’ Costanoa Venture C... |
- | Helping AI teams make products for physical world, Rerun sprints with $3.2 million | Stockholm-based AI platform Rerun has brought in $3.2 million to allow developers to bring AI products to the physical world. The round saw backing from Silicon Valley VC Costanoa Ventures and European seed investor Seedcamp along with a co... |