Greg Sands

Greg Sands, Founder & Managing Partner at Costanoa Ventures

Greg Sands is the Founder and Managing Partner of Costanoa Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. He has over 20 years of experience as an early-stage investor, helping startups analyze and interpret early signals to identify and leverage the most valuable aspects of their solutions.12

Key Points About Greg Sands:

• Prior to founding Costanoa, Greg was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures, where he invested in early-stage enterprise technology startups like Merced Systems, AllBusiness, Quinstreet, Feedburner and Youku.12

• Before Sutter Hill, Greg was the first hire at Netscape Communications after its founding engineering team. He served as Netscape's first Product Manager, wrote the initial business plan, coined the name Netscape, and created the SuiteSpot Business Unit, which he grew from zero to $140M in revenue.123

• Greg has supported multiple companies that have reached successful outcomes, including 3Scale (acquired by RedHat), Datalogix (acquired by Oracle) and Intacct (acquired by Sage).1

• His current investments at Costanoa include Alation, Demandbase, Directly, Focal Systems, Grovo, Guardian Analytics, Inflection, Handle Financial, Quizlet, Return Path, Roadster, Stitch Labs, and VictorOps.13

• Greg holds a B.A. from Harvard College (magna cum laude) and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.3

• He is the proud father of four children and is known around Palo Alto as "Sara Sands' husband".4