Cota Capital

Cota Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on cybersecurity investments, providing growth capital to early and growth-stage cybersecurity companies building the security infrastructure, threat detection, and risk management platforms needed to protect enterprise and government organizations from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The firm invests at Series A and Series B stages with initial checks from $2 million to $10 million, bringing deep cybersecurity domain expertise to help portfolio companies navigate complex enterprise sales cycles. Portfolio companies include Cobalt, the penetration testing as a service platform for enterprise organizations; Cybereason, the endpoint detection and response and extended detection and response platform; Recorded Future, the threat intelligence platform acquired by Mastercard in 2024 for approximately $2.65 billion in one of the largest cybersecurity acquisitions in recent years; and Telos, the cybersecurity solutions provider serving US government and enterprise customers. Beyond its original investments in Cobalt, Cybereason, Recorded Future, and Telos, the portfolio includes additional enterprise and government cybersecurity companies.