Investing Profile

John Cowgill(778)

VCInvestor

Partner at Costanoa Ventures

costanoavc.com/team/investors...San Francisco, California

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John Cowgill's investing connections

43 Investors

Connected to Kevin Lee, Adam Draper (Boost VC), Eva Ho (Fika Ventures), and 40 other investors on Signal.

Networks John is a member of

McKinsey & Company Network

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McKinsey & Company Network

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Northwestern University Network

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Current Investing Position

Costanoa Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$2.0M - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$3.5M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$890M

John Cowgill is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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John Cowgill's Investments On Record (14)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Numa	Series BOct 2024$32M	$180M
Co-investors: Lisa Xu (FirstMark Capital), Priya Saiprasad (SoftBank Vision Fund), Andreas Stavropoulos (Threshold Ventures), Mark Selcow (Costanoa Ventures), Christian Meermann (Cherry Ventures), Christian Miele (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Nenad Marovac (DN Capital), Mato Peric
Muon Space	Series BAug 2024$57M SeedMay 2021$10M	$100M
Co-investors: Rob Toews (Radical Ventures), Raj Atluru (Element Partners), Chad Anderson (Space Capital)
RunReveal	SeedMay 2024$3M	$3M
Leap	Series UnknownMay 2023$15M Series BDec 2021$50M Series AAug 2021$11M	$290M
Co-investors: Nick Grossman (Union Square Ventures), Yash Sankrityayan (Jungle Ventures), Amit Anand (Jungle Ventures), Amit Patel (Owl Ventures), Michelle Kennedy (StartHer), Fredrik Cassel (Creandum), David Helgason (foobar.vc), Emily Kirsch (Powerhouse Ventures), Rick Zullo (Equal Ventures), Ira Weiss (Hyde Park Venture Partners), Eric Lefkofsky (Lightbank), Farooq Abbasi (Preface Ventures), Sahil Lavingia, Ashish Agrawal, Kunal Shah
Kepler Communications	Series CApr 2023$92M Series BJun 2021$60M Series AOct 2018$16M Series ASep 2018$15M	$190M
Co-investors: Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Brad Gillespie (IA Ventures), Saif Hashmi (BDC Venture Capital), Chris DeVore (Founders' Co-op), Dylan Taylor
Parallel Domain	Series BNov 2022$30M Series ADec 2020$11M SeedMay 2018$3M	$44M
Co-investors: Raju Rishi (RRE Ventures), Lindel Eakman (Foundry Group), Ryan McIntyre (Foundry Group), Kevin Dunlap (Calibrate Ventures), Sunil Nagaraj (Ubiquity Ventures), Julia Klein (March Capital), Jim Adler (Toyota Ventures)
Novel	SeedSep 2022$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Ben Lerer (Lerer Hippeau), Gary Vaynerchuk (Vayner RSE), Brian Sugar
Rerun	Pre SeedJun 2022$3M	$3M
Co-investors: Tony Liu (Costanoa Ventures), Tom Wilson (Seedcamp), Matt Miesnieks (Super Ventures), Kevin Stumpf, Jan Erik Solem, Luc Vincent

John Cowgill's Media (1)

Medium

medium.com

most interested in

Most excited about vertical saas companies with some applied data / ML component and an opportunity to integrate financial services / payments at scale. Particular verticals of interest include real estate / property, logistics, heavy industry. Always excited about anything in security / infrastructure.

not interested in

Generally less excited about horizontal SaaS companies, though there are always exceptions to any rule :)

John Cowgill's Experience

Summer Associate Clarity ConsultingPresent

Summer Business Analyst McKinsey & CompanyPresent

Business Development TechweekPresent

Business Analyst McKinsey & CompanyPresent

Principal Costanoa VenturesPresent

John Cowgill's Education

Northwestern University Bachelor's Degree Summa Cum Laude, Learning and Organizational Change, Integrated Marketing Certificate

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