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About Shasta Ventures

Shasta Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2004. It is primarily based out of Portola Valley, United States. As of Nov 2025, Shasta Ventures has invested in 227 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series B round of Overland Overall, Shasta Ventures portfolio has seen 12 unicorns, 4 IPOs and 90 acquisitions including key companies like SentinelOne, Intuit and Turo. A lot of funds co-invest with Shasta Ventures, with names like First Round Capital sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Shasta Ventures has team of 14 people including 7 partners.
Key Metrics
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series A, Seed & 3 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Unicorns
Portfolio Soonicorns
Deals in last 12 months

Shasta Ventures' List of Top Investments

Shasta Ventures has a portfolio of 227 companies, including 12 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Suplari and Skilljar.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada, New Zealand and 9 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer and 31 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Seed  and 3 more. Here is the list of top investments by Shasta Ventures:
Cloud-based collaborative design platform. It enables users to create various digital content, including social media posts, presentations, and videos, through its drag-and-drop editor. The platform provides access to thousands of templates, photos, and fonts, and offers AI-powered tools for users to enhance design abilities. It allows users to edit images for presentations, invitations, posters, flyers, business cards, and more. The platform offers pre-designed templates and effects. It also provides a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and images.

Key facts about Canva

Cloud based endpoint security solutions. It provides a solution to detect threat behavior and block attacks. It provides a predictive execution inspection engine and military grade cyber defense technologies. The product comprises of installation on endpoint and monitoring client and analytics engine to detect non signature based threats, predict the further actions and other variations of the threat, and block them from causing damage online.

Key facts about SentinelOne

  • Founded Year: 2013
  • Location: Mountain View (United States)
  • Annual Revenue: $821M as on Jan 31, 2025
  • Stage: Public
  • Total Funding till date: $697M
  • Employee Count: 3,145 as on Jan 31, 2026
  • Investors: HTIF, Insight Partners and 23 Others
  • Latest Funding Round: Series F, Nov 11, 2020, $*****
  • Highlight: Public
Provider of financial, accounting, tax preparation, and marketing automation software. It develops and distributes software and online services for individuals, small businesses, and accounting professionals. The company offers tools for tax preparation, financial management, payroll processing, online payments, invoicing, time tracking, and marketing campaigns. It also provides access to credit scores, credit cards, and loans. The company connects small businesses with bookkeepers and tax experts.

Key facts about Intuit

4. Turo

App-based P2P car rental platform. Their platform connects vehicle owners who are willing to rent their cars with other users. Users can host or rent their vehicle on the platform and users in need of vehicles can search and book the vehicles of their preferences. It offers features like insured rides, contactless-delivery options, and more. Their mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices.

Key facts about Turo

5. Nest

Provider of hardware and software for monitoring home energy consumption. It is open to developers nest Protect, a better smoke and carbon monoxide detector.

Key facts about Nest

Shasta Ventures' Investments by Stage

Shasta Ventures has made 98 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $10.1M, 48 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $4.97M, 45 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $16M, 5 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $35.9M and 1 investment in Unattributed stage with an average round size of $4.5M.
Here are Shasta Ventures' investments by stage:
Stage of entry
No. of Investments
Series A
98
Seed
48
Series B
45
Series C
5
Unattributed
1
Breakdown of Shasta Ventures' investments by stage of entrySeries A (98)Seed (48)
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Shasta Ventures' Investments by Sector

Shasta Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer, High Tech and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 211 Tech companies, 158 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 156 Software companies and at least 98 companies focusing on Saas.
Here are Shasta Ventures' investments by sector:
Sector
No. of Investments
Enterprise Applications
117
Enterprise Infrastructure
46
Consumer
45
High Tech
44
Vertical SaaS
22
Others
178
Breakdown of Shasta Ventures' investments by sectorsEnterprise Applic... (117)Enterprise Infras... (46)
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Shasta Ventures' Investments by Geography

Shasta Ventures has made most investments in United States (180), followed by New Zealand where it has made 6 investments.
Here are Shasta Ventures' investments by geography:
Country
No. of Investments
United States
180
New Zealand
6
Canada
5
Australia
2
Israel
2
Others
6
Breakdown of Shasta Ventures' investments by countriesUnited States (180)New Zealand (6)
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Shasta Ventures' recent investments

Shasta Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.
Here are the most recent investments by Shasta Ventures:
Date
Company
Location
Round Details
Round Amount
Co-Investors
Nov 24, 2025
United States
Series B
6835
8VC [+5]
Nov 04, 2025
United States
Series A
8759
Jul 01, 2025
United States
Series A
7850
Jun 03, 2025
United States
Series B
6639
Mar 03, 2025
United States
Series B
4155
TCV [+6]

Unicorns in Shasta Ventures' Portfolio

Shasta Ventures has 12 unicorns in its portfolio - ClassDojo, CommerceIQ, Athelas and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is ClassDojo. It became a unicorn in 2022, 8 years after Shasta Ventures first invested in it.
Here is a list of unicorns in Shasta Ventures' portfolio:
Tracxn Score
Company
Short Description
Founded year
Sector
Location
Company Stage
First Investment/ Acquisition Details
79
Classroom behaviour feedback platform used by teachers and students
2011
San Francisco
Series D
mvseydo
71
Provider of unified AI platform for retail ecommerce sales and optimization
2012
Mountain View
Series D
ufioaic
50
Provider of smart solutions for monitoring heart rate, weight, and blood pressure
2014
Mountain View
Series A
yczulpb
65
Developer of an AI revenue platform for sales team enablement
2016
San Francisco
Series D
y{jtwey
63
Developer of an AI customer experience platform and communication APIs
2013
San Mateo
Series C
z{km{vv

IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Shasta Ventures' Portfolio

4 of Shasta Ventures' portfolio companies have become public. SentinelOne got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in Jun 2021 at marketcap of $8.97B and Next Door got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at marketcap of undefined.
Here are Shasta Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company
IPO Date
First Invested on
First Round of Investment
Round Size
Jun 30, 2021
-
-
4571
May 26, 2021
Oct 26, 2011
Seed
6487
Dec 04, 2020
Jun 12, 2007
Series A
9756
Mar 12, 1993
-
-
7246

Acquired companies in Shasta Ventures' Portfolio

90 companies from Shasta Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Caring.com in Jan 2026 by SilverAssist.
Here are Shasta Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company
Acquisition Date
First Invested on
First Round of Investment
Round Size
Jan 12, 2026
Nov 12, 2009
Series B
2014
Nov 19, 2025
Mar 20, 2015
Series C
1496
Sep 17, 2025
Oct 30, 2016
Series A
1139
May 27, 2025
Apr 17, 2007
Series A
5796
May 08, 2025
Jul 11, 2016
Series A
9874

Team profile of Shasta Ventures

Shasta Ventures has a team of 14 members including 7 Partners, 3 Venture Partners and 2 Principals located in United States and Belgium. Shasta Ventures' team sits on the board of 2 companies.
Here is a list of top team members in Shasta Ventures:
Name
Designation
Location
Board Memberships
Contact details
Partner
Seattle
-
Partner
San Francisco
Partner
Menlo Park
Partner
San Francisco
-
-
Partner
San Francisco
-
Partner
Portola Valley
-
Partner
Belgium
-
-
Venture Partner
San Francisco
-
Venture Partner
Berkeley
-
-
Venture Partner
Santa Barbara
-
-

Co-investors of Shasta Ventures

Over the past 21 years, 1187 investors have co-invested in Shasta Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.

  • Invested before Shasta VenturesFirst Round Capital, Y Combinator and 273 others have invested in rounds before Shasta Ventures. There are 8 companies where First Round Capital has invested before Shasta Ventures and 7 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Shasta Ventures.
  • Top Co-investors of Shasta Ventures388 investors entered a company along with Shasta Ventures. These include investors like First Round Capital (8 companies).
  • Invested after Shasta VenturesA total of 524 investors have invested in Shasta Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Insight Partners (9 companies), Tenaya Capital (7 companies) and Tiger Global Management (5 companies).

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