DFX Intelligence
Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Cota Capital Management, LLC
Cota Capital Management, LLC
Private equity with venture activity · probableSan Francisco, CAcotacapital.comSEC registered investment adviser
Cota Capital invests in net new by combining knowledge capital with financial expertise to drive innovative enterprise solutions.
registered adviser; venture funds are 24% of 17 private funds
Importance
33
moderate
Active deployment
33
moderate
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
75
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
12
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 555 MISSION STREET, SUITE 1800, San Francisco, CA, 94105adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 415-689-5600adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTP://WWW.COTACAPITAL.COM
- SEC adviser type
- registered investment adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 31, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 17 (4 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $1.8Badviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Regulatory AUM
- $1.2Bthe adviser's RAUM, a regulatory measure, never a fund size
- Employees
- 16
- business email
- info@cotacapital.comcotacapital.compublished by the subject
- business email
- ir@cotacapital.comcotacapital.compublished by the subject
- business phone
- 415-689-5600adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
2 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, enterprise software, energy, space, crypto, devtools, logistics
- Stages
- early
- Geography
- austin, global, miami, new york
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 50%Other Technology 50%
lead rate 0%follow-on rate 0%new logos, 12 months 2
Funds and vehicles
4 reported, 1 no longer reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cota Opportunities IX, LLC | Opportunity fund | 2024 form d first sale | Early deployment | unknown | unknown | $3.5M of $3.5M | Mar 7, 2024 |
| Cota Enterprise Ventures II, LP | Fund | 2023 adv first reported | Active deployment | $197M Mar 27, 2024 | 175 | unknown | unknown |
| Cota Enterprise Ventures III, LP | Fund | 2023 form d first sale | Active deployment | $31.2M Mar 27, 2024 | 29 | $82.3M of $250M | Mar 14, 2025 |
| Cota Fintech Ventures II, LP | Fund | 2022 adv first reported | Active deployment | $64.4M Mar 27, 2024 | 77 | $0 of $100M | Jun 28, 2021 |
| Cota Ventures II, LP | Fund | 2021 adv first reported | Wound down | $127M Mar 30, 2022 | 150 | unknown | unknown |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
24 current, 3 departed
Tala Farhatnia
AnalystSenior Analyst
Christopher Yazdani
AssociateAssociate
Vince Plot
AssociateAssociate
Pete Abrams
Board or advisoryAdvisor
Bobby Yazdani
Managing partnerFounder & Managing Partner
Knowledge Base
OtherPortfolio News
Babak Nmn Yazdani
PartnerMember And Manager · since Nov 1, 2015
Babak Poushanchi
PartnerMember And Manager · since Nov 1, 2014
Daniel Karp
PartnerPartner
Murat Kilicoglu
PartnerPartner
Arif Farooqui
Platform and operationsVice President, Finance
Faie Dorin
Platform and operationsGeneral Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer
Faie Reiko Dorin
Platform and operationsChief Compliance Officer · since Mar 1, 2023
Gabi Schindler
Platform and operationsChief Marketing Officer
Pete Williams
Platform and operationsPartner & Chief Operating Officer
Peter E Williams
Platform and operationsMember And Chief Operating Officer · since Oct 1, 2016
Vivienne Chua
Platform and operationsChief Financial Officer
Allison Chapman
PrincipalDirector of Administration
Vikram Venkat
PrincipalPrincipal
Ben Malka
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Kevin Jacques
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Suresh Batchu
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Val Vaden
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Sara Shabani
Vice presidentSenior Associate
3 departed (kept with end dates)
- Albert Azout · Member · Jul 1, 2016 to Mar 30, 2021 Inference
- Marcella Mccoll · Chief Financial Officer · Jan 1, 2020 to Mar 30, 2022 Inference
- Virginia Yee · Chief Operating Officer · Jan 1, 2015 to Nov 29, 2016 Inference
Investments on record
2 edges, 2 companies, 0 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookiedatabase | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 13, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Movandi Corp | Funding round | participant | unknown | $40.0M | unknown | Oct 14, 2025 | Fact Press release wires (Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire public RSS) |
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
13 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Alpha Partners Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeRockwood Equity Partners LLC 1 shared · one timeNTI Managers, LLC 1 shared · one timePlexo Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeOrbiMed 1 shared · one timeSUN Mountain Capital Advisors, LLC 1 shared · one timeArboretum Ventures 1 shared · one timeYork Investments Holdings, LLC 1 shared · one timeOmega Venture Partners 1 shared · one timeRice Park Capital 1 shared · one timeCelesta Capital 1 shared · one timeSierra Ventures 1 shared · one timeDNX Ventures 1 shared · one time
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
13 dated events
- Mar 27, 2024Cota Enterprise Ventures III, LP first reported on Form ADV by Cota Capital Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $31,185,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactCota Enterprise Ventures III, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 31, 2023Cota Ventures II, LP no longer reported on Form ADV by Cota Capital Management, LLCFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceCota Ventures II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 31, 2023Cota Enterprise Ventures II, LP first reported on Form ADV by Cota Capital Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $156,065,789Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactCota Enterprise Ventures II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 1, 2023Faie Reiko Dorin joined Schedule A of Cota Capital Management, LLC as Chief Compliance Officer
- Mar 30, 2022Marcella Mccoll (Chief Financial Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Cota Capital Management, LLC
- Mar 30, 2022Cota Fintech Ventures II, LP first reported on Form ADV by Cota Capital Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $52,472,396Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactCota Fintech Ventures II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 30, 2021Albert Azout (Member) no longer on Schedule A of Cota Capital Management, LLC
- Mar 30, 2021Cota Ventures II, LP first reported on Form ADV by Cota Capital Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $12,463,656Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactCota Ventures II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jan 1, 2020Marcella Mccoll joined Schedule A of Cota Capital Management, LLC as Chief Financial Officer
- Nov 29, 2016Virginia Yee (Chief Operating Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Cota Capital Management, LLC
- Oct 1, 2016Peter E Williams joined Schedule A of Cota Capital Management, LLC as Chief Operating Officer
- Jul 1, 2016Albert Azout joined Schedule A of Cota Capital Management, LLC as Member
- Mar 29, 2016Cota Capital Management, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Private equity with venture activity (probable, 75%, cls-1)registered adviser; venture funds are 24% of 17 private funds
- Sep 12, 2026Private equity with venture activity (probable, 75%, cls-1)registered adviser; venture funds are 24% of 12 private funds
Evidence
57 observations from 3 sources