Investing Profile

John Cowgill(778)

VCInvestor

General Partner at Costanoa Ventures

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

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John Cowgill's investing connections

47 Investors

Connected to Kevin Lee (New Food CPG Co.), Adam Draper (Boost VC), Eva Ho (Fika Ventures), and 44 other investors on Signal.

Networks John is a member of

McKinsey & Company Network

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Northwestern University Network

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Current Investing Position

Costanoa Ventures General 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 (18)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Empirical Security	Series AJul 2026$25M SeedJul 2025$12M	$37M
Co-investors: Stephen Ward (Insight Partners), Gerhard Eschelbeck
Manifold	SeedMar 2026$8M	$57M
Co-investors: Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz), Andrew Marks (TQ Ventures), Kavita Gupta (Katapult VC), Jomayra Herrera (Reach Capital), Jennifer Carolan (Reach Capital), Andrew Bialecki
Definite	SeedAug 2025$10M	$10M
Co-investors: Asad Khaliq (aCrew Capital)
Muon Space	Series BJun 2025$45M Series BAug 2024$57M SeedMay 2021$10M	$150M
Co-investors: Joshua Posamentier (Congruent Ventures), Rob Toews (Radical Ventures), Raj Atluru (Element Partners), Chad Anderson (Space Capital)
dweva.com	Series UnknownDec 2024$7M	$7M
Co-investors: Frederic Kerrest
Numa	Series BOct 2024$32M	$180M
Co-investors: Lisa Xu (FirstMark Capital), Andreas Stavropoulos (Threshold Ventures), Christian Miele (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Nenad Marovac (Advent International), Christian Meermann (Cherry Ventures), Mark Selcow (Costanoa Ventures), Priya Saiprasad (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Mato Peric
RunReveal	Pre SeedMay 2024$3M	$3M
Leap	Series CMay 2023$15M Series BDec 2021$50M Series AAug 2021$11M	$360M
Co-investors: Nick Grossman (Union Square Ventures), Abe Yokell (Congruent Ventures), Logan Ashcraft (Standard Investments), Amit Patel (Owl Ventures), Yash Sankrityayan (Jungle Ventures), Emily Kirsch (Powerhouse Ventures), Farooq Abbasi (Preface Ventures), Michelle Kennedy (StartHer), Fredrik Cassel (Creandum), Rick Zullo (Equal Ventures), Ira Weiss (Hyde Park Venture Partners), Leo De Luna (Tribeca Venture Partners), Eric Lefkofsky (Lightbank), David Helgason (foobar.vc), Ashish Agrawal, Sahil Lavingia, Kunal Shah

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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

Board Member Empirical Security2025 - Present

Board Member detections.ai2024 - Present

Board Member System Two Security2024 - Present

Board Member RunReveal2023 - Present

Seed Investor Mindtrip, Inc.2023 - Present

Seed Investor Locket Labs2022 - Present

Board Member Definite2022 - Present

Seed Investor rerun.io2022 - Present

Pre-Seed Investor rerun.io2022 - Present