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Investor profile

Mark Selcow

General Partner, Costanoa Ventures

About

Mark Selcow is a former founder-operator turned investor at Costanoa Ventures who built and scaled two companies, BabyCenter and Merced Systems, before becoming a venture capitalist. He focuses on investing in companies outside the Bay Area and personally experiments as a consumer in sectors he invests in, such as opening an HSA account to understand pain points before investing in HSA platform Lively. Mark Selcow is a former founder-operator turned investor at Costanoa Ventures who built and scaled two companies, BabyCenter and Merced Systems, before becoming a venture capitalist. He focuses on investing in companies outside the Bay Area and personally experiments as a consumer in sectors he invests in, such as opening an HSA account to understand pain points before investing in HSA platform Lively.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
AI
FinTech
Cybersecurity
Data
SaaS

Investment details

Avg check size$2M - $5M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
Europe
Canada
Asia-Pacific
LatAm
Israel
MENA
India
Africa
ANZ