Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$2,000,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$3,500,000.00
Skills
Lists including Madison
Work Experience
Principal
2024
Invests in infrastructure, dev tools, data, agents and AI from seed - Series B. Leads internal firm-wide data & AI platform for data-driven investing.
2022 - 2024
Investor
2022 - 2024
Invested in infrastructure, developer tools, data, agents, generative AI, and AI/ML at the earliest stages. Advises on generative AI and data product strategy for startups of all sizes. Investments: Delphina.ai, Probabl.ai, Mindtrip.ai, Fixify.com, Sygmahq.com and SelfInspection.com Other Companies I Worked With: SyncComputing.com, Definite.app, Noteable.io (acq by Confluent), Rafay.co https://www.costanoavc.com/a-data-scientists-next-career-experiment-investing-at-costanoa/
2021 - 2022
Head of Data Science and Machine Learning
2021 - 2022
Led data science, machine learning and infrastructure for ecommerce product optimization including the ML platform, dynamic pricing optimization, demand forecasting, marketing, data-driven acquisitions, and product lifecycle. Deployed multiple systems leading to $100Ms+ in incremental EBITDA measured through experiments. Led team of 19 data scientists, ML engineers, platform engineers and managers.
2020 - 2021
Head of Data Science
2020 - 2021
Led data science, product and engineering for $2B venture capital fund including building the data science platform and product roadmap for data-driven venture capital investing, fund management and diligence. Managed team of data engineers, software engineers, data entry teams, and data scientists/analysts.
2017 - 2020
Data Science Manager
2020 - 2020
Led team's research across the auction, ads ranking, personalization, explainability, responsible AI and ML platform. Worked primarily with FAIR on autoML, neural architecture search, data mining, feature importance and selection, model evaluation and performance optimization.
Senior Data Scientist
2019 - 2020
Data Scientist
2017 - 2019
2017 - 2017
Researcher
2017 - 2017
Research Fellowship on Product Pricing on seed startup
2015 - 2016
Investment Banking Summer Analyst
2015 - 2016
Technology Coverage
Investment Banking Summer Analyst
2015 - 2015
Consumer & Retail Coverage
2015 - 2015
Researcher
2015 - 2015
Management Science & Engineering department with Lockheed Martin
2014 - 2015
Researcher
2014 - 2015
Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and the Startup Garage
2014 - 2014
Research Intern
2014 - 2014
Research on Investment Trends and Startups