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Attending Databricks Data+AI Summit? Costanoa Ventures and Bigeye invite you to a dinner to talk about Data Reliability Engineering on 

​Join this group of like-minded data professionals in an intimate setting to learn the do’s and don’ts about data reliability engineering from some of the original data team at Uber who pioneered this proactive approach.

Costanoa + Bigeye Dinner @ Databricks Data+AI Summit

Pre-pandemic, we at Costanoa frequently hosted a series of women in leadership dinners to share learnings and build community. We're excited to 

We'll be hosting an intimate dinner on July 14th at 5:30pm at Marlowe on their outdoor patio for women and non-binary product leaders working in the cybersecurity sector. Leaders from Palo Alto Networks, Stackhawk, Zscaler, Proofpoint, Darktrace, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Crowdstrike, Traceable and more will be in attendance. Everyone is encouraged to share ideas, stories, advice and best practices. It's going to be a small group to enable deep conversation, and we'd love for you to join us! 

Costanoa Investor with a focus on cybersecurity and infrastructure investments. Passionate about empowering and creating community for women in cyber. 

Cyber Women in Product Dinner

Pre-pandemic, we at Costanoa frequently hosted a series of women in leadership events to share learnings and build community. We brought back this series with a 

, which was a blast! We're excited to continue these events with a 

Cyber Women in Product and GTM Paint & Pour 

​We'll be hosting a fun Paint & Pour event at the Costanoa office in Potrero Hill for women and non-binary leaders working in the cybersecurity sector in product and GTM roles. Leaders from Crowdstrike, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, F5, Darktrace, Lacework and more will be in attendance. Everyone is encouraged to share ideas, stories, advice and best practices. We'd love for you to join us! 

, Costanoa Operating Partner and author of 

LOVED: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products

 is truly the definitive guide on how to do product marketing well!

​Please RSVP by October 6th. We'll be catering light bites for dinner, so please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions. 

Paint and Pour: Cyber Women in Product and GTM 

Come join us for an evening conversing with other security engineer leaders at forward thinking security programs. 

Costanoa and Forgepoint are hosting a dinner on Wednesday November 16th at The Progress with fun cocktails and amazing food. Join Costanoa investor 

and other like-minded security engineering leaders for an evening of networking and mingling. 

It's going to be a small group to enable deep conversation, and we'd love for you to join us! RSVP as soon as possible to reserve a spot.

Security Engineer Dinner

 is excited to invite you to a happy hour with local founders, VCs and leaders in the technology ecosystem in Brazil and Latam! 

We hope to see you there! Space is limited, so please RSVP by December 1. 

At Costanoa, we back entrepreneurs who are a lot like us: hungry, thoughtful, tenacious and looking to solve big problems. We specialize in enterprise and fintech, and that focus has given us experience and expertise to be exceptionally helpful to founders building in those markets. We lead at Seed and Series A.

Costanoa Ventures Happy Hour

We're kicking off Costanoa's first Learning Lab of 2023 and with a hot topic: Developer Marketing! We’re bringing in two experts, 

, who will talk about their experience leveraging developer and open source communities and help you understand how to evaluate how well this channel is working for you. More about our special guests:  

How to Leverage Developer & Open Source Communities in your GTM

Please join Costanoa Ventures, to discuss 2023 trends in security. As we enter a new year where operational efficiency matters, how will security organizations adjust and continue to innovate while managing tighter budgets and a very thin labor pool? We'll cover a broad range of topics and trends over good food and drink in one of the private dining rooms at Flour + Water. We hope you can join us for a casual discussion and networking event.

2023: New Year, New Trends in Security Dinner

For our next Learning Lab, we're covering a topic that many founders have expressed interest in lately: product design. Whether or not you have someone dedicated to the function, the work must get done. We're bringing in two experts: 

 (Chief Growth Officer at DesignMap) and 

 (former Chief Product Officer at dbt Labs & current Executive in Residence at Costanoa). We'll cover the following:

Learning Lab: How to Use Product Design to Win 

This Learning Lab is focused on helping the Costanoa Portfolio companies understand and leveraging Generative AI practices using the OpenAI platform.  Guest speakers include: 

, founder of Definite.  This Learning Lab is open to primarily Engineering and Product Leaders, but also anyone interested in learning about building on the OpenAI platform.  Topics to be covered include:

Learning Lab: Leveraging Generative AI with OpenAI

 seeks to enable conversations and action so more women earn more seats at more tables at every level of management-- from first-time managers to board members. We’re excited to finally bring Seat @ the Table back in person this year–special thanks to LinkedIn for hosting us! Our focus remains on women builders, aka women with technical backgrounds leading product and engineering. 

These remarkable leaders will share what's helped them most in their leadership journeys.

There will be open networking time with food and drink before the panel. It’s a great opportunity to meet more product and engineering peers who can support you in your journey.

The event is open to anyone who wants to learn more about what it takes to be a strong leader or ally for women in product and engineering. 

Seat @ the Table was founded by the Costanoa Ventures team back in 2017. Special thanks to this year's sponsors, the LinkedIn Marketing for Startups team and Women@ ERG, for hosting us at the LinkedIn SF Office!

Seat@theTable: Women Builders 

Update: We're moving the date to 6/1 due to the Warriors Playoffs schedule - GO DUBS! 

Back by popular demand - we're gathering our sales & marketing community together for another in-person huddle. This time, we're excited to host you all at our new home right across from Oracle Park! 

 filled with learnings, libations, light bites (& likely lots of laughter!) with your fellow sales and marketing rockstars. 

Costanoa Sales & Marketing Huddle IRL

Calling all visionary women builders of New York City! Have you ever considered starting your own company? Or are you in the early stages of getting your idea off of the ground?

We’re thrilled to bring together a curated group of women builders (aka women in product, engineering, & machine learning) for an evening of inspiration and connection with women who have already taken the leap to becoming founders. The event will take place during NYC Tech Week on Wednesday, October 18th from 6-8pm at South Park Commons in NYC, hosted by the 

We’ve assembled a lineup of remarkable founders who have “been there, done that” and will share what it’s like to go for it. The risks. The rewards. They’ll share openly about their journeys, the highs and the lows, including, how and when do you dare to start.

Bring your burning questions and any friends who are also thinking about starting their own company! Please RSVP by Oct 2 so we have an accurate headcount.

Special thanks South Park Commons for hosting us at their office in NYC!

 - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem

Taylor Bernal @ Costanoa Ventures

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