About CSA Partners
CSA Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2013. It is primarily based out of Milwaukee, United States. As of Feb 2023, CSA Partners has invested in 22 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of EVEN Overall, CSA Partners portfolio has seen 5 acquisitions including key companies like ReviewTrackers, Music Dealers and EVENTup. A lot of funds co-invest with CSA Partners, with names like Daniel Rotman sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. CSA Partners has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Acquisitions
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CSA Partners' List of Top Investments
CSA Partners has a portfolio of 22 companies. Their most notable investments are in ReviewTrackers and Pet Krewe.Their portfolio spans across and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Retail and 17 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by CSA Partners:
Provider of marketing solutions for e-commerce businesses. It enables digital marketing by connecting CPG advertisements with retailers. It allows customers to purchase a product or claim an offer from the ad placed on different online stores.
Key facts about Pear Commerce
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Milwaukee (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $24.1M
- Employee Count: 33 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: M25, Dundee Venture Capital and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jun 27, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. EVEN
Online platform offering music store and fan engagement solutions. It provides users with a marketplace to buy and sell artists' music, content, tour tickets, merchandise, and more. It provides artists with a direct-to-fan platform to engage and reward their fans.
Key facts about EVEN
- Founded Year: 2022
- Location: Los Angeles (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $12.3M
- Employee Count: 66 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: CSA Partners, Gaingels and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, 2026, $*****
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Online retailer offering wine on a subscription basis. The product catalog includes various flavours of wine such as apple, grape, and more. The company also provides wine recommendations based on the taste profile.
Key facts about Bright Cellars
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Boston (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $26.7M
- Employee Count: 7 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Northwestern Mutual, Revolution and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Feb 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Reputation management software to improve online presence and customer experience. It is a SaaS platform designed to help businesses monitor, manage, and improve their online reputation. The software offers features such as review monitoring, local SEO, customer experience analytics, competitor analysis, social media monitoring, and local listing management. It aims to empower businesses to build a strong online presence, improve customer retention, and drive brand growth. The platform provides tools for managing employee feedback, software brand monitoring, and app store monitoring. It offers integrations with leading technologies and resources such as success stories, guides, reports, and webinars to support businesses in their reputation management efforts. The goal is to help businesses understand their customers better, build more trust, and gain insights to move their business forward.
Key facts about ReviewTrackers
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Chicago (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $19M
- Employee Count: 27 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Square 1 Bank, PeakSpan Capital and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jun 25, 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
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5. Understory
Provider of ground-based dot sensors to collect hyperlocal weather data. The hardware offering detects rain, hail, winds, and other weather events at the surface of the earth. The information collected by the device is analyzed and processed to create real-time datasets and views of the movement and intensity of weather events to provide insight and early detection of risks. The sensors are solar-powered and can detect three-dimensional rain, hail, wind, and other weather at the ground level. It also offers parametric hail insurance for auto dealerships.
Key facts about Understory
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Madison (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $57.9M
- Employee Count: 34 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Greenspring Associates, RRE Ventures and 20 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Nov 27, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
CSA Partners' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
CSA Partners has invested in 22 companies over the last 13 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in EVEN and most recent follow-on round was in Bright Cellars.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
CSA Partners' Investments by Stage
CSA Partners has made 7 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.45M and 2 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $4.75M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 7 |
Series A | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
CSA Partners' Investments by Sector
CSA Partners has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Auto Tech, Big Data - Industry Applications and Environment Tech. Notably, it has invested in 16 Tech companies, 10 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 8 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 7 companies focusing on Software.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 5 |
Consumer | 2 |
Auto Tech | 1 |
Big Data - Industry Applications | 1 |
Environment Tech | 1 |
Others | 13 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
CSA Partners' Investments by Geography
CSA Partners has made most investments in United States (9).CSA Partners' recent investments
CSA Partners has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by CSA Partners:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Feb 13, 2023 | United States | Seed | 6311 | [+4] | |
Feb 2022 | United States | Series B | 9700 | ||
Sep 10, 2021 | United States | Seed | 5997 | [+4] | |
Feb 04, 2020 | United States | Seed | 2962 | ||
Jun 01, 2018 | United States | Seed | 2755 |
Acquired companies in CSA Partners' Portfolio
5 companies from CSA Partners' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was ReviewTrackers in Jun 2022 by InMoment for $*****.Here are CSA Partners' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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Jun 16, 2022 | Aug 29, 2014 | Series A | 8022 | |
Jul 31, 2018 | Jan 06, 2017 | Seed | 7555 | |
Jun 29, 2018 | - | - | 4025 | |
Nov 22, 2016 | - | - | 2208 | |
Feb 18, 2016 | Dec 03, 2013 | Seed | 2090 |
Team profile of CSA Partners
CSA Partners has a team of 1 member located in United States. CSA Partners' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of CSA Partners
Over the past 13 years, 38 investors have co-invested in CSA Partners's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before CSA Partners: Gener8tor, Start-Up Chile and 12 others have invested in rounds before CSA Partners. There are 7 companies where Gener8tor has invested before CSA Partners and 1 company where Start-Up Chile has invested before CSA Partners.
- Top Co-investors of CSA Partners: 14 investors entered a company along with CSA Partners. These include investors like Daniel Rotman (1 company).
- Invested after CSA Partners: A total of 10 investors have invested in CSA Partners's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Revolution (2 companies), TenSquared (1 company) and Cleveland Avenue (1 company).
Recent News related to CSA Partners
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Creative platform EVEN raises $2.3M seed round to help artists sell directly to fansTechCrunch+•Apr 14, 2023•EVEN, CSA Partners, Gener8tor, VC 414 and 1 other
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Milwaukee's Agricycle Global raises $2.4 million to grow its ingredient supply businessThe Business Journals•Sep 11, 2021•Agricycle Global, MaSa Partners, CSA Partners, Wisconsin Investment Partners
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B/2BNOW, an SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP Solution, Closes Seed RoundPR Newswire•Aug 07, 2019•B/2BNOW, CSA Partners, Esker, CSA Partners
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Understory Secures $7.5M in New Funding to Power Global Expansion of Weather Sensor NetworkBusiness Wire•Nov 20, 2018•Understory, Revolution, 4490 Ventures, Monsanto and 4 others
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Bright Cellars completes $2.8M round of fundingThe Business Journals•May 17, 2018•Bright Cellars, Northwestern Mutual, CSA Partners, Cleveland Avenue
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Xconomy: In Return to Roots, Understory Raises $7.5M & Relocates HQ to WIXconomy•Feb 17, 2016•Understory, Monsanto, CSA Partners, True Ventures and 3 others
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TECHdotMN B2B startup Docalytics raises $300k - TECHdotMNTECHdotMN•Dec 03, 2013•Docalytics, Gener8tor, Matchstick Ventures, CSA Partners
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