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What does Cota Capital invest in?
Cota Capital invests most often at Seed and Venture (54% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology.
Cota Capital highlights
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8 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 54% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 12 rounds, median $5.6M
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14 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Cota Capital invests in net new by combining knowledge capital with financial expertise to drive innovative enterprise solutions.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Sectors
- Artificial IntelligenceInformation Technology
- Based in
- SAN FRANCISCO, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first200 appearances
- 2026
7 rounds
- Jul
- May
- May
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- 2025
15 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- 2024
11 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Oct
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Jan
- 2023
13 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- Jul
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration7 named
AEAlbert E. AzoutExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
BPBabak PoushanchiManager of Cota Capital GP, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
BYBabak YazdaniMember and ManageriForm ADV
BYBobby YazdaniExecutive Officer of Cota Capital GP, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
FRFaie Reiko DorinChief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
PEPeter E. WilliamsExecutive Officer of Cota Capital GP, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
UNUllas NaikManageriFiling they signed
We also hold 32 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.2Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- COTA Capital Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 226750
Funds on its Form ADV
12 private funds, $1.9B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
Hedge 5Special purpose vehicle 4Venture 3
- Cota Capital Master Fund, L.P.Hedge222 investors$575M
- Cota Growth Fund, L.P.Hedge76 investors$293M
- Cota Capital Offshore Fund, L.P.Hedge111 investors$289M
- Cota Capital Institutional Partners, L.P.Hedge111 investors$251M
- Cota Enterprise Ventures II, L.P.Venture175 investors$197M
- Cota Growth Offshore Fund, LTD.Hedge116 investors$172M
- Cota Fintech Ventures II, L.P.Venture77 investors$64M
- Cota Enterprise Ventures III, L.P.Venture29 investors$31M
- Cota Opportunities VII, LLCSpecial purpose vehicle14 investors$5.7M
- Cota Opportunities VI, LLCSpecial purpose vehicle8 investors$3.6M
And 2 more on the filing.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
4 of 9 we have independently watched raise
ACQUIREDActivsurgicalAddeparAmplifiersecurity310AcrossAlgenbioApp0Arcticsemiconductor
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed14 in all
BoticcaBought by Wolf & BadgerUndisclosedJul 2015
Bina TechnologiesBought by RocheUndisclosedDec 2014
Shelby.tvBought by Samsung ElectronicsUndisclosedJun 2014
KloutBought by Lithium Technologies$200MMar 2014
Revel TouchBought by RollickUndisclosedDec 2013
1000memoriesBought by AncestryUndisclosedOct 2012
Clever SenseBought by GoogleUndisclosedDec 2011
WebsBought by Cimpress$118MDec 2011
AptelaBought by VocalocityUndisclosedAug 2011
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.