Our Companies

Cota Capital invests in exceptional teams to build timeless technology companies that address Net New challenges.

A leading personal finance app that analyzes spending, identifies inefficiencies, and offers immediate ways to improve financial health.

Truebill offers a leading personal finance app that analyzes members’ spending habits, identifies inefficiencies, and offers immediate methods to improve their financial health. It enables people to optimize their spending, manage subscriptions, lower their bills, and automatically set aside money to reach their savings goals.

Milestones

Founded: 2015
Acquired: 2021 by Rocket companies

Founders:

Haroon Mokhtarzada, Yahya Mokhtarzada, Idris Mokhtarzada

Ad-supported TV and movie streaming service.

Tubi is the most watched free TV and movie streaming service in the U.S., dedicated to providing all people access to all the world’s stories. The company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 200,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of exclusive originals and over 250 live channels. Tubi is part of the Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation that oversees the company’s digital businesses.

Milestones:

Founded: 2014
Acquired: 2020 by Fox Corporation

Founders:

Farhad Massoudi, Thomas Ahn Hicks

Berkeley Lights empowers Digital Cell Biology by combining bioscience, technology, and information to accelerate your science.

Berkeley Lights is a leading Digital Cell Biology company focused on enabling and accelerating the rapid development, and commercialization of biotherapeutics and other cell-based products. The Berkeley Lights Platform captures deep phenotypic, functional, and genotypic information for thousands of single cells in parallel, and it can also deliver the live biology customers desire in the form of the best cells.

Milestones:

Founded: 2011
IPO: 2020

Founders:

Bill Davidow, Igor Khandros, Ming C. Wu

Regulatory change management intelligence and collaboration platform for companies in the financial industry.

Compliance.ai provides a regulatory compliance and risk management solution that applies purpose-built machine learning models to automatically monitor the regulatory environment for relevant changes and maps them to its clients’ internal policies, procedures, and controls. It ensures you track, react, and report on impactful regulations and requirements on a timely basis.

 

Milestones:

Founded: 2014
Acquired: 2024 by Archer

Founders:

Kayvan Alikhani, Catherine Hammack

Platform for governments to access, analyze, and share financial data.

OpenGov is the leader in modern cloud software for cities, counties, state agencies, and special districts. With a mission to power a more effective and accountable government, OpenGov serves thousands of public sector leaders and their organizations. OpenGov is built exclusively for the unique budgeting and planning, accounting, permitting and licensing, procurement, and asset management needs of the public sector. The OpenGov Cloud empowers organizations to operate more efficiently, adapt to change, and strengthen trust with the communities they serve.

Milestones:

Founded: 2012
Acquired: 2024
by Cox Enterprises

Founders:

Zac Bookman, Joe Lonsdale, Dakin Sloss, and Nate Levine

Integrated, cloud-based lending platform.

Cloud Lending is the next-generation, cloud-based lending and leasing platform of choice for leading lenders. The end-to-end lending platform simplifies the borrower experience, increases application volumes, accelerates loan decisioning, and reduces operational inefficiencies through digitization and automation. Offering solutions for consumer, commercial, small business, construction, and equipment leasing, Cloud Lending’s proven platform solution means lenders can grow their loan portfolio with one partner, eliminating costs and reducing middle and back-office operational churn. 

Milestones:

Founded: 2012
Acquired: 2018 by Q2 Holdings

Founders:

Snehal Fulzele, Darpan Saini, Rajendra Badadare

Building a privacy-first, high-performance cloud computing platform on blockchain.

Building a privacy-first, high-performance cloud computing platform on blockchain.

Milestones:

Founded: 2018

Founders:

Dawn Song, Bobby Jaros, Noah Johnson, Reymond Cheng

Exceptional voice Experiences for every business.

SoundHound is a global leader in conversational intelligence and offers voice AI solutions that let businesses offer incredible conversational experiences to their customers. Built on proprietary technology, SoundHound’s voice AI delivers best-in-class speed and accuracy in numerous languages to product creators across automotive, TV, and IoT, and to customer service industries via groundbreaking AI-driven products like Smart Answering, Smart Ordering, and Dynamic Interaction™, a real-time, multimodal customer service interface. Along with SoundHound Chat AI, a powerful voice assistant with integrated Generative AI, SoundHound powers millions of products and services and processes billions of interactions each year for world-class businesses.

Milestones:

Founded: 2005
IPO: 2022

Founders:

Keyvan Mohair, James Hom, Majid Emami

As the leading provider of energy storage software and integration services, Greensmith’s mission is to make energy storage a fundamental part of a cleaner, more intelligent, and distributed energy infrastructure. Now in its fifth generation, Greensmith’s GEMS software platform optimizes the performance of energy storage by lowering costs and maximizing system return on investment.
Greensmith Energy designs and deploys the world’s most advanced energy storage systems. From grid-scale to behind-the-meter and microgrid solutions, the Greensmith GEMS software platform enables effective and efficient delivery of stable power with unsurpassed performance and profitability.

Milestones:

Founded: 2014
Acquired: 2017 by Wärtsilä Corporation

Founder:

John Jung

NextInput is disrupting the Human Machine Interface (HMI) experience with turn-key touch and touchless sensing solutions for a broad range of markets, including Automotive, Consumer, Wearable, Medical, Industrial, and IoT.

Milestones:

Founded: 2012
Acquired: 2021 by Qorvo

Founders:

Ali Foughi, Ian Campbell, Ryan Diestelhorst

Building the next generation of voice-based conversational agents.

Tenyx offers AI voice agents that automate voice customer experiences and services for the enterprise. Leveraging proprietary AI technology, Tenyx allows customers across multiple industries to increase conversions, qualify leads, reduce operating costs, and improve customer experience quality.

Milestones:

Founded: 2021
Acquired: 2024 by Salesforce

Founders:

Itamar Arel, CEO
Adam Earle, CTO

Merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company.
Square makes commerce and financial services easy and accessible with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions. Square offers purpose-built software to run complex restaurant, retail, and professional services operations, versatile e-commerce tools, embedded financial services and banking products, buy now, pay later functionality through Afterpay, staff management and payroll capabilities, and much more – all of which work together to save sellers time and effort. Millions of sellers across the globe trust Square to power their businesses and help them thrive in the economy.

Milestones:

Founded: 2009
IPO: 2015

Founders:

Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey

Mobile app connecting passengers with drivers for hire.
Uber’s mission is to create opportunity through movement. The company started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get access to a ride at the touch of a button? More than 47 billion trips later, Uber is building products to get people closer to where they want to be. By changing how people, food, and things move through cities, Uber is a platform that opens up the world to new possibilities.

Milestones:

Founded: 2009
IPO: 2019

Founders:

Travis Klanick, Garrett Camp

Genetic diagnostics of rare diseases based on next-generation sequencing.

Blueprint Genetics is a genetic testing company focused on inherited diseases. With a patient-first mindset, we deliver high-quality genetic testing to the global clinical community across 14 medical specialties. By combining a state-of-the-art laboratory process, the latest sequencing technology, AI-empowered data-crunching tools and techniques, world-class professionals, and a holistic customer experience approach, we are bringing genetic knowledge to mainstream healthcare while providing answers that can guide targeted treatment and individualized care for patients. Blueprint Genetics is based in Helsinki and Marlborough, with a customer base spanning over 70 countries. 

Milestones:

Founded: 2012
Acquired: 2020 by Quest Diagnostics

Founders:

Tommi Lehtonen, Juha Koskenvuo, Tero-Pekka Alastalo, Samuel Myllykangas

Precision oncology company offering proprietary blood tests, vast data sets, and advanced analytics.

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Guardant is transforming patient care by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data, and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and helping doctors select the best treatment for patients with advanced cancer.

Milestones:

Founded: 2012
IPO: 2018

Founders:

Helmy Eltoukhy, AmirAli Talasaz

Intelligence platform that helps find and prioritize target companies to source more opportunities.

DataFox helps businesses gain control of customer data with CRM Orchestration. Sales, marketing, and investing teams at organizations like UPS, Visa, Twilio, and InsightSquared trust DataFox for the insights they need to identify new business opportunities. 

Milestones:

Founded: 2013
Acquired: 2018 by Oracle

Founders:

Alden Timme, Bastiaan Janmaat, Ben Trombley, Mike Dorsey

Qu

Unified commerce platform for the restaurant industry.

Qu is evolving restaurant POS to infuse speed, agility, and innovation into quick service and fast casual restaurant chains. Qu’s industry-leading, cloud-native Unified Commerce Platform connects the ordering, operations, and guest engagement functions; delivering the real-time data needed to drive loyal, repeat customers. 

Milestones:

Founded: 2012

Founders:

Niko Papademetriou, Bill Draper, Brett Guidry

Space-based earth observation satellites equipped with very high resolution synthetic aperture radar.

Capella Space is an American space tech company with data and satellite solutions for government and commercial use. A pioneer in the Earth observation industry, Capella is the first U.S. company with a constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, delivering high-quality, high-resolution SAR imagery. Capella provides easy access to frequent and timely information affecting dozens of industries worldwide, including defense and intelligence, supply chain, insurance, maritime, and others. Its market-leading SAR satellites are matched with unparalleled data infrastructure to quickly deliver reliable global insights that sharpen our understanding of the changing world – improving decisions about commerce, conservation, and security on Earth. 

Milestones:

Founded: 2016

Founders:

Payam Banazadeh, William Walter Woods

Unified, cloud-managed physical security platform.

Rhombus is a unified, cloud-based physical security platform that brings security cameras, access control, sensors, alarms, and integrations together under a single pane of glass. Rhombus is on a mission to make the world safer with simple, smart, and powerful physical security solutions.

Milestones:

Founded: 2016

Founders:

Garrett Larsson, Omar Khan, Dave Gustafson

CAST AI’s platform cuts cloud cost in half.

CAST AI is the leading Kubernetes cost optimization platform for AWS, GCP, and Azure customers. The company’s platform goes beyond monitoring clusters and making recommendations; it utilizes advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze and automatically optimize clusters, saving customers 50% or more on their cloud spend, improving performance and reliability, and boosting DevOps and engineering productivity.

Milestones:

Founded: 2019

Founders:

Yuri Frayman, Leon Kuperman, Laurent Gil

High-touch wealth management meets modern technology.

Farther is a leading technology-centric wealth management firm – combining expert advisors with cutting-edge technology to deliver an efficient, comprehensive, and elite client experience. Founded in 2019 and backed by top-tier venture capital firms, Farther caters to high-net-worth professionals who need a more holistic approach to managing their money.

Milestones:

Founded: 2019

Founders:

Taylor Matthews, Brad Genser

Operating system for coffee shops.

Dripos is the only piece of software a coffee shop needs to operate its business. The platform offers specialized point-of-sale (POS) and mobile payments, employee management and payroll, loyalty and marketing automation, as well as comprehensive administrative functions like accounting and banking, and has become the go-to solution for coffee shop owners seeking a unified operational platform. 

 

Milestones:

Founded:  2019

Founders:

Jack Pawlik, Avery Durrant

Automating customer experience (CX) monitoring in the physical world.

Mobot is the first robot-powered QA-as-a-service testing platform for mobile applications. It is the only solution that uses mechanical robots on real, physical devices to provide businesses with high-quality, automated testing of their mobile apps. Popular mobile applications and growth-stage startups like Citizen, Persona, Branch, Mapbox, and Radar use Mobot to automate manual app testing. 

Milestones:

Founded: 2018

Founder:

Eden Full Goh

Empowering organizations to build, maintain, and upgrade their infrastructure through automation and AI.

Inorsa offers a software platform to site acquisition, A&E, and construction groups that automate drawings, structural analysis, reports, and close-out packages. Its automation engine dramatically decreases turnaround time and cost for these tasks while increasing drawing accuracy. The platform also allows clients to store documents, cross-check and validate data accuracy, and arrange files, making it simple to stay organized. Inorsa is on a mission to accelerate 5G deployment at lightning speed, at a fraction of the cost.

Milestones:

Founded: 2020

Founder:

Sean Shahini

Ramen provides a Network-as-a-Service solution for the uncarpeted enterprise.

Ramen offers a new paradigm: Managed wireless networks delivered as a service that can be used to provide extremely reliable, high speed and secure wireless networks in environments where blue-collar workers, robots and IoT devices are performing mission-critical tasks in rugged work areas. The Ramen solution operates using unlicensed spectrum – initially using the CBRS and WiFi frequency bands in the US. Private 5G offers significant benefits over the legacy carrier-centric approach where enterprises have no control over their destiny and wait for years for the carrier to deploy nationwide. It also brings all the benefits of modern cloud/edge computing to the non-carpeted enterprise putting it on the same footing as the carpeted enterprise.

 

Milestones:

Founded: 2022

Founders:

Partho Mishra, Sanjay Kasturia, Prashant Kuma

Cloud-native generative AI-powered analytics automation platform.

Savant Labs provides a cloud-native generative AI-powered analytics automation platform to expedite answers from modern data sources and modern SaaS applications. With a drag-and-drop no-code, low-code user experience combined with deeply integrated generative AI, analysts can achieve business outcomes 5x-10x faster at 50% lower costs than alternatives. Savant’s analytics automation platform is visualized in an intuitive workflow that combines dataflows and analytics flows and uniquely combines bots to automate the delivery of insights to 100+ destination apps, dashboards, and platforms. Organizations can also leverage Savant’s pre-built analytics automation templates or build their own. 

Milestones:

Founded: 2021

Founders:

Chitrang Shah, Barry Burns, Matt Asher, Yintao Song, Yunfeng Yang

Cota Capital invests in exceptional teams to build timeless technology companies that address Net New challenges.



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