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Jim Wilson

Partner at Costanoa Ventures

Burlingame, California

Overview 

Jim Wilson is a Partner at Costanoa Ventures in Burlingame, California, with a strong background in enterprise sales and go-to-market strategy. He has served as a board member and advisor for various tech companies, including Bugcrowd and Kenna Security. Highlights of Jim Wilson's career include his role as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Sumo Logic and his current position as a Partner at Costanoa Ventures, where he focuses on investing in Series A and seed stage companies in the SMB software and enterprise sectors in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Advisor

    2024 - Current

Sync Computing is a cloud infrastructure company that develops of an optimization processing unit.

Raised $22,899,999.00 from Rebecca Li, Moore Strategic Ventures, Ron Avnur, The Engine, Costanoa Ventures, National Grid Partners (NGP) and Satyen Sangani.

  • Advisor

    2022

FOSSA is the developer's choice for managing open source risk and reporting.

Raised $38,399,979.00 from Costanoa Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures and Canvas Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Partner

    2016

    Operating Partner responsible for market and business development of the firm's portfolio of companies including: sales and go-to-market strategy, building sales and business development teams, and sales best practices and development.

Costanoa Ventures leads Formation, Seed, and Series A stage investments in companies that change the way the world does business

  • Board Member

    2019

    Bugcrowd is the leading crowdsourced security platform for security testing on web, mobile, source code and client side applications.

Bugcrowd is a cybersecurity company that operates as a platform for crowdsourced security testing.

Raised $230,650,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank.

  • Board Member

    2019

    Kenna Security is the enterprise leader in risk-based vulnerability management.

Kenna is a SaaS risk and vulnerability intelligence platform that accurately measures risk and prioritizes remediation efforts.

Raised $98,250,000.00 from Citi Ventures, Sorenson Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Decacorn Capital, Costanoa Ventures, 50 South Capital, OurCrowd, Bessemer Venture Partners and HPA (Hyde Park Angels).

  • Board Member

    2019

    Acme Technologies is a full service ticketing and visitation management solution focused on museums, zoos, gardens and more.

ACME Technologies is the only omnichannel visitation platform.

  • Advisor

    2018

    Armory provides an enterprise distribution of Spinnaker, the cloud native, open source, continuous delivery platform that creates a paved road for your developers to deploy with speed and resilience.

Armory is an enterprise software company commercializing the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker.

Raised $82,000,000.00 from Page One Ventures.

  • Advisor

    2018

    Logichub is an Automation-driven Detection and Response Platform that helps companies orchestrate workflows and mimic the cognitive and intuitive skills of expert analysts to automate decision making.

LogicHub automates security analysts' intelligence process to reduce breach detection time.

Raised $8,400,000.00 from Nexus Venture Partners and Storm Ventures.

  • Vice President Worldwide Sales

    2014 - 2016

    Responsible for all aspect of the sales operations including: field sales, corporate (inside) sales, technical sales, business development, and sales operations. Grew company from <5M to >40M ARR over a 2.5 year period.

Sumo Logic is a provider of cloud-based machine data analytics that enables reliable and secure cloud-native applications.

Raised $340,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund, Franklin Templeton, Battery Ventures and Tiger Global Management.

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