About CSC Upshot Ventures
CSC Upshot Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. It is primarily based out of Palo Alto, United States. As of Jun 2025, CSC Upshot Ventures has invested in 223 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 High Tech and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Circulate Overall, CSC Upshot Ventures portfolio has seen 14 unicorns, 8 IPOs and 60 acquisitions including key companies like Notion, Airtable and Superhuman. A lot of funds co-invest with CSC Upshot Ventures, with names like Maiden Lane sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. CSC Upshot Ventures has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Unicorns
CSC Upshot Ventures' List of Top Investments
CSC Upshot Ventures has a portfolio of 223 companies, including 14 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Dishcraft Robotics and Notion.Their portfolio spans across United States, United Kingdom, Brazil and 5 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer and 29 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by CSC Upshot Ventures:1. Notion
Developer of an AI-powered workspace for team collaboration and productivity. The workspace provides tools for project management, knowledge base creation, and document sharing. It offers features such as AI meeting notes, enterprise search, and workflow automation. The platform integrates with various applications to centralize team operations.
Key facts about Notion
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $418M
- Employee Count: 7,457 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Section Partners, Sherpalo Ventures and 40 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Sep 28, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Airtable
Cloud and AI based low code workflow and app development platform. It offers a spreadsheet database hybrid model that allows users to develop applications using no code AI components. It enables users to collaborate and share data, monitor comments and changes on the database sheet. It offers tools to customize templates, generate product specifications, categorize user feedback, automate workflows, visualize reports, and more. It is a tool available on the subscription based pricing model.
Key facts about Airtable
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $1.35B
- Employee Count: 4,261 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Silver Lake, TrueBridge and 59 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series F, Dec 13, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Tala
Provider of financial infrastructure and credit decision models. This entity develops risk intelligence and underwriting engines designed to facilitate access to credit. The technology utilizes behavioral data to assess creditworthiness and enable financial transactions through digital interfaces.
Key facts about Tala
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: Santa Monica (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $346M
- Employee Count: 906 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Western Technology Investment, Founders Circle Capital and 51 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Mar 20, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Superhuman
Provider of an AI-powered email scheduling app. It offers a browser extension that enables users to start up, search and send mail. It has undone send features, artificial intelligence to detect and highlight important emails, read status, mail scheduling and follow up.
Key facts about Superhuman
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $118M
- Employee Count: 166 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: HT Ventures, Hone Capital and 46 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. Rippling
Cloud-based suite solution for HR management. It offers automated onboarding and offboarding solution for the organizations. The product is an employee management software solution with features such as payroll administration, employee benefits management, headcount planning, feedback surveys, shift scheduling, learning management and more. It also offer products such as workflow studio, reporting analytics, policies management and more. It is a tool available on the subscription based pricing model.
Key facts about Rippling
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series G
- Total Funding till date: $1.85B
- Employee Count: 7,809 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Goldman Sachs, GIC and 71 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series G, May 09, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
CSC Upshot Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
CSC Upshot Ventures has invested in 223 companies over the last 10 years, with an average of 0 new investment annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in Circulate and most recent follow-on round was in Dishcraft Robotics.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
CSC Upshot Ventures' Investments by Stage
CSC Upshot Ventures has made 6 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $4.88M and 3 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $5.11M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 6 |
Series A | 3 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
CSC Upshot Ventures' Investments by Sector
CSC Upshot Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications, EdTech and Enterprise Infrastructure. Notably, it has invested in 210 Tech companies, 158 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 132 Software companies and at least 85 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 4 |
Consumer | 2 |
Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications | 1 |
EdTech | 1 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 1 |
Others | 5 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
CSC Upshot Ventures' Investments by Geography
CSC Upshot Ventures has made most investments in United States (9).CSC Upshot Ventures' recent investments
CSC Upshot Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by CSC Upshot Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jun 11, 2025 | United States | Seed | 2476 | [+1] | |
Feb 27, 2018 | United States | Seed | 1725 | [+5] | |
Apr 13, 2017 | United States | Series A | 4535 | [+3] | |
Aug 2016 | United States | Seed | 8807 | ||
2016 | United States | Seed | 9059 | - |
Unicorns in CSC Upshot Ventures' Portfolio
CSC Upshot Ventures has 14 unicorns in its portfolio - Juniper Square, Kin, Roofstock and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Juniper Square. It became a unicorn in 2025, 1 years before CSC Upshot Ventures first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in CSC Upshot Ventures' portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
72 | Platform for real estate investment management | 2014 | San Francisco | Series D | nsty{rr | ||
66 | Online platform for homeowner insurances for individuals | 2016 | Chicago | Series E | qtmbkaf | ||
60 | Online platform for real estate investments | 2015 | Oakland | Series E | odvm{hy | ||
72 | Virtual care for women and families across every life stage | 2014 | New York City | Series F | knykkpp | ||
66 | Developer of an AI revenue platform for sales team enablement | 2016 | San Francisco | Series D | ozlbpsu |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in CSC Upshot Ventures' Portfolio
8 of CSC Upshot Ventures' portfolio companies have become public. BioAge Labs got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Sep 2024 at marketcap of $615M and Molekule got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) at marketcap of undefined.Here are CSC Upshot Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 26, 2024 | - | - | 2920 | |
Nov 24, 2021 | - | - | 2024 | |
Nov 04, 2021 | - | - | 9319 | |
May 14, 2021 | - | - | 1837 | |
Jan 15, 2021 | - | - | 4215 |
Acquired companies in CSC Upshot Ventures' Portfolio
60 companies from CSC Upshot Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Weave in Aug 2026 by Francisco Partners for $*****.Here are CSC Upshot Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 18, 2026 | - | - | 9480 | |
Aug 12, 2026 | Jun 11, 2025 | Seed | 8974 | |
Aug 04, 2026 | - | - | 9596 | |
Jul 01, 2026 | - | - | 5191 | |
Jun 17, 2026 | - | - | 5670 |
Team profile of CSC Upshot Ventures
CSC Upshot Ventures has a team of 1 member located in United States. CSC Upshot Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of CSC Upshot Ventures
Over the past 10 years, 91 investors have co-invested in CSC Upshot Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before CSC Upshot Ventures: SV Angel, First Round Capital and 10 others have invested in rounds before CSC Upshot Ventures. There is 1 company where SV Angel has invested before CSC Upshot Ventures and 1 company where First Round Capital has invested before CSC Upshot Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of CSC Upshot Ventures: 48 investors entered a company along with CSC Upshot Ventures. These include investors like Maiden Lane (3 companies).
- Invested after CSC Upshot Ventures: A total of 31 investors have invested in CSC Upshot Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Draft Ventures (1 company), Magna (1 company) and Drive Capital (1 company).
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