Venture Capital

Shasta Ventures

Shasta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2004 and based in Silicon Valley (Portola Valley / Menlo Park, on and around Sand Hill Road, California). Founded by Rob Coneybeer and Ravi Mohan (with Tod Francis and Jason Pressman among its long-tenured Managing Directors), the firm invests primarily at the Series A stage in United States technology startups, typically leading rounds and taking board seats. Shasta has roughly $1.3B under management across multiple funds (Fund II $250M, Fund III $265M, Fund IV $300M) and a 20-year track record. Its thesis centers on enterprise software / SaaS, cybersecurity, developer tools and infrastructure, data intelligence, camera / computer vision, and consumer subscription products, pairing capital with operational support (Shasta Elevate) for technical founders. Notable investments include Anaplan, Zuora, Nest, Nextdoor, Apptio, Eero, Sendbird, Tonal, Lattice, Highspot, SentinelOne and Turo, with 12 unicorns, multiple IPOs and dozens of acquisitions across its history.

29 portfolio companies 29 publish APIs here 8 properties
Venture CapitalEarly StageSeries AEnterprise SoftwareSoftware-as-a-ServiceCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsInfrastructureData IntelligenceSilicon ValleyUnited States
Portfolio Strength across 13 profiled portfolio companies on the network
2 top-rated API companies 0 exemplar · 2 strong
6 agent-ready companies 1 agent-native · 5 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 37.4
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 23.0

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Shasta Ventures has 29 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 13 (45%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 16 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Mint, Leanplum, Sendbird, Lattice, Nest.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 5 Limited public surface area

Properties

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Team

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Cohort brief

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The 26 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Shasta Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
26
all scored
Mean Kin Score
26.9
+2.5 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
15.5
+2.8 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
4.1–62.7
median 24.5 · σ 18
How the 26 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 2Developing 6Thin 5Emerging 7Minimal 6
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 27 20.4 +6.6 26
Operational Transparency 19.2 14.4 +4.8 26
Access Clarity 29.7 27.2 +2.5 26
Contract Governance 8.1 6.6 +1.5 26
Developer Ergonomics 22.5 23.8 -1.3 26
Discoverability 59.6 61.5 -1.9 26

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 11% 11% 0
MCP server (first-party) 14% 13% +1
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 21% 12% +9
Security 96% 96% 0
Arazzo workflows 7% 2% +5
Governance rules 18% 13% +5

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Intuit 62.7
  2. 2 Leanplum 59.8
  3. 3 Sendbird 50.2
  4. 4 Lattice 47.6
  5. 5 Nest 46
  6. 6 Brandcast 45.9
  7. 7 Spiceworks 43.3
  8. 8 Highspot 40.7
  9. 9 Apptio 37.1
  10. 10 Zuora 37
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Nextdoor 44.6
  2. 2 Zuora 43.9
  3. 3 Intuit 36.1
  4. 4 Leanplum 30.4
  5. 5 Highspot 29.9
  6. 6 Apptio 28.7
  7. 7 Sendbird 27
  8. 8 Spiceworks 26.8
  9. 9 Brandcast 26.4
  10. 10 Nest 23.6
All 29 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 22 September 2026, across 27674 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: shasta-ventures
name: Shasta Ventures
description: >-
  Shasta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2004 and
  based in Silicon Valley (Portola Valley / Menlo Park, on and around Sand Hill
  Road, California). Founded by Rob Coneybeer and Ravi Mohan (with Tod Francis
  and Jason Pressman among its long-tenured Managing Directors), the firm invests
  primarily at the Series A stage in United States technology startups, typically
  leading rounds and taking board seats. Shasta has roughly $1.3B under management
  across multiple funds (Fund II $250M, Fund III $265M, Fund IV $300M) and a
  20-year track record. Its thesis centers on enterprise software / SaaS,
  cybersecurity, developer tools and infrastructure, data intelligence, camera /
  computer vision, and consumer subscription products, pairing capital with
  operational support (Shasta Elevate) for technical founders. Notable investments
  include Anaplan, Zuora, Nest, Nextdoor, Apptio, Eero, Sendbird, Tonal, Lattice,
  Highspot, SentinelOne and Turo, with 12 unicorns, multiple IPOs and dozens of
  acquisitions across its history.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
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  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://framerusercontent.com/images/ObemCIzud1LKuPA2p3IV0QGOp40.png
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Early Stage
  - Series A
  - Enterprise Software
  - Software-as-a-Service
  - Cybersecurity
  - Developer Tools
  - Infrastructure
  - Data Intelligence
  - Silicon Valley
  - United States
tags_raw:
  - Venture Capital
  - Early Stage
  - Series A
  - Enterprise Software
  - SaaS
  - Cybersecurity
  - Developer Tools
  - Infrastructure
  - Data Intelligence
  - Silicon Valley
  - United States
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.shasta.vc/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.shasta.vc/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/shasta-ventures-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.shasta.vc/team
  - type: Team
    url: team/shasta-ventures-team.yml
  - type: Contact
    url: https://www.shasta.vc/contact
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shasta-ventures
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shasta-ventures
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Early stage, primarily Series A'
      - 'Sectors: enterprise software / SaaS, cybersecurity, developer tools & infrastructure, data intelligence, camera/computer vision, consumer subscription'
      - 'Geography: United States (Silicon Valley)'
      - 'AUM: ~$1.3B under management (self-reported)'
      - 'Funds: Fund II $250M, Fund III $265M, Fund IV $300M'
      - 'Founded: 2004'
      - 'HQ: Portola Valley / Menlo Park, California'
      - 'Founders: Rob Coneybeer, Ravi Mohan'
      - 'Track record: ~227 investments, 12 unicorns, multiple IPOs, dozens of acquisitions'
    sources:
      - https://www.shasta.vc/
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_Ventures
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Shasta Ventures
    email: info@shasta.vc
    url: https://www.shasta.vc/

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