What does Shasta Ventures invest in?
Shasta Ventures invests most often at Series A and Series B (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Recurring, Data and Privacy.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Aug 2026; 353 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $13M, Oct 2026VC firm
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9 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Series A and Series B: 61% of its rounds
Sole investor in 25 rounds, median $7.5M
44 exits from the portfolio
Filed 1 private fund offering with the SEC, the most recent in 2021-03From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first353 appearances
6 rounds
13 rounds
8 rounds
5 rounds
13 rounds
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Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration8 named
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Who backs their funds
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Jun 2025.
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Shasta Ventures V | 2017 | $35M |
| Shasta Ventures IV | 2014 | $25M |
| Shasta Ventures III | 2012 | $27M |
| Shasta Ventures II | 2008 | $23M |
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed44 in all
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
The investors most often in the same rounds as Shasta Ventures. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Shasta Ventures put money into.
5 episodes naming Shasta Ventures in the title, and 4 more that mention it.

SaaStr 178: 10 Key Lessons From Scaling Marketo to IPO with Phil Fernandez, Former Marketo CEO & Venture Partner @ Shasta Ventures
WithPhil Fernandez

20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
WithJason Pressman
MentionsShasta Ventures

20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
MentionsShasta Ventures

20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
MentionsShasta Ventures

Saastr 007: What It Takes To Get Series A Investor Interested and Guidelines To Manage Your Burn Rate with Doug Pepper, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
WithDoug Pepper
MentionsShasta VenturesHarry Stebbings

20VC: Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds & AUM is a Vanity Metric | Why 99% of Investments in AI Startups Will Go To Zero | Being a "Traction First" VC & Investing Lessons from Investing in Canva and Missing Figma with Nikhil Basu-Trivedi

SaaStr 322: ICONIQ Capital General Partner Doug Pepper on Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader

CPG, Defensibility, Finding The Next Instagram - Everything Consumer in 2019 with Rebecca Kaden, Nikhil Basu Trivedi and Jonathan Yoni Regev

20VC: Why Move Fast and Break Things Is Not Right, How To Instil Radical Candor In Your Organisation & What Founders Must Ask For From Their Investors with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
Shasta Ventures invests most often at Series A and Series B (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Recurring, Data and Privacy.
353 investments on record, 9 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 8. The most recent was in Aug 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Vessev (Series A, Aug 2026), Dawn Aerospace (Series B, Jun 2026) and Alitheon (Venture, May 2026).
The median round it joins is $15M. It says it writes cheques of $250K to $10M.
Sometimes: it led 8 of its 353 investments on record (2%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (68%), New Zealand (20%) and the United Kingdom (5%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 9 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often First Round Capital (36 rounds together), Greylock (22 rounds together) and TA Ventures (20 rounds together).
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