Greg Sands
Founder & Managing Partner at Costanoa Ventures | Leading Seed & Series A
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2024 - Current
ForceMetrics is a people performance analytics platform that analyzes specific datasets to produce actionable insights.
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Stand Together Ventures Lab, Hobson Lucas Family Foundation, Govtech Fund, Flybridge, Growth Warrior Capital and Costanoa Ventures.
Board Member
2024
Beacon AI builds pilot assistant technology, effectively R2-D2 for pilots.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Costanoa Ventures, Scout Ventures, Sam Altman and JetBlue Ventures.
Investor & board observer
2022
Cape is the privacy-first mobile network
Board Member
2021
Modern privileged identity management
Modern enterprise authorization with human-readable policies and an understanding of business context to deliver just-in-time authorization
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Cisco Investments, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Resolute Ventures, Fika Ventures, Cisco Investments, Costanoa Ventures and Moonshots Capital.
Investor & Board Member
2018
Auterion is a cutting-edge operating system for autonomous computing that empowers a diverse range of autonomous robots to perform high-risk to mundane tasks, deliver goods, and aid in life-saving missions.
Founder, Managing Director
2012
We back tenacious and thoughtful founders who change how business gets done.
Costanoa Ventures leads Formation, Seed, and Series A stage investments in companies that change the way the world does business
Board Member
2020
StackHawk is a SaaS company focused on helping organizations find and fix exploitable API security issues as part of their CI/CD workflows.
Raised $35,325,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Foundry Group, Costanoa Ventures and Ride Home Fund.
Board Member
2019
Silicon Valley technology for the country's most critical national security challenges.
Vannevar Labs is a technology startup providing defense and national security technologies for critical national security problems.
Raised $87,000,000.00 from Felicis, General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Point72 Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Shield Capital and Aloft VC.
Board Member
2017
Automate and optimize retail through the use of deep learning computer vision. With focalOS, Focal provides the operating system of retail.
Raised $41,900,000.00 from Point72 Ventures.
Investor & Board Observer
2016
PayNearMe develops technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to accept, disburse and manage payments.
PayNearMe provides a web and mobile-based cash payments platform designed to facilitate online purchases and bill payments.
Raised $118,199,988.00 from H. Barton Asset Management, True Ventures, Queensland Investment Corporation, August Capital, Costanoa Ventures, Verdure Capital Management and DNS Capital.