Investors / United States / Costella Kirsch
Costella Kirsch
Investor · Menlo Park, CA, United States · North America
Costella Kirsch provides structured debt financing to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and angel-backed emerging growth companies. It has been lending since 1986 and sizes its facilities to historical actual performance.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsventure debttechnologyconsumer goodshealthcaresaasgrowth
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Or find every investor that fitsCostella Kirsch lists 27 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (19%), AI & Machine Learning (16%) and Fintech (14%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Version One Ventures, 1745 Ventures and A.Capital Ventures.
No funding round on record names Costella Kirsch yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Costella Kirsch's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 27. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 19% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 16% | 18% |
| Fintech | 14% | 12% |
| Food & Agriculture | 7% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 7% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Version One Ventures | 2 |
| 1745 Ventures | 1 |
| A.Capital Ventures | 1 |
| ATDC | 1 |
| AV8 Ventures | 1 |
| Advance Venture Partners | 1 |
| Anti Fund | 1 |
| Authentic Ventures | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 64th | 27 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 11th | 19% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2696%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company14%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Version One Ventures
Compare Costella Kirsch head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
27 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algo provides demand-driven planning software for manufacturers and consumer brands | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| CommerceV3 provides various services to help ecommerce brands grow, including AI-native growth, SEO, and commerce operations | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| DemandStar connects businesses directly with local governments to facilitate government contract bids, RFPs, and procurement | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Hiyo produces non-alcoholic functional seltzers with various flavors and ingredients. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Equisolve builds and maintains investor relations and corporate websites for public companies | FintechMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Folloze delivers personalized content with its buyer experience platform for account-based marketing at scale | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Gaine manages operational health data for various healthcare entities, including patients, providers, and organizations. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides manufacturing analytics software and industrial IoT solutions to help manufacturers increase productivity and profitability. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Higherme provides software for hiring and payroll management for hourly teams. | Human ResourcesEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Hydrolix provides a real-time data platform for petabyte-scale data and long-term retention | Media & EntertainmentFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Infrrd processes complex documents without templates, validates extracted data against business rules, and routes exceptions for review. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| InvoiceASAP provides online invoicing software and a mobile invoice app | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Oats Overnight sells oatmeal breakfast products with various flavors and ingredients. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Preemadonna develops and sells a machine called Nailbot that prints custom nail art directly onto nails or press-on nails. | ConsumerHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Rallio provides a platform for multi-location businesses to manage their local marketing and social media presence | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| SendOwl provides a platform for selling digital products, subscriptions, and memberships | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Shibumi enables organizations to deliver enterprise-scale transformation with unparalleled investment governance | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| ShipHawk provides warehouse management and shipping software solutions | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells wellness products. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- costellakirsch.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 27
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