Costella Kirsch

About The Fund

Costella Kirsch is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, since 1986, offering creative and structured debt financing solutions. They specialize in serving venture-backed, bootstrapped, and angel-backed companies, particularly in the technology and life science sectors. With a vast experience that spans over three decades in Silicon Valley, the firm has developed a keen understanding of the technology market. They invest in a wide array of industries such as SaaS, hardware, eCommerce, cloud-based solutions, consumer goods, and healthcare. In the consumer goods space, their partners include growing companies across food & beverage, beauty, home goods, and fashion. Their healthcare investments are focused on revenue-stage companies in diagnostics, medical devices, and med-tech platforms. Costella Kirsch also looks for opportunities in data analytics, clean tech, and tourism. Their investment strategy is characterized by speed, simplicity, and strong industry relationships, which underpin their lending style. By offering tailored financial solutions, they support the ambitions of emerging growth companies. They prefer to engage in investment rounds, such as Seed, Series A, and Series B, with a minimum investment of $500,000, a maximum of $5,000,000, and a sweet spot of $3,000,000 for particular investments. Costella Kirsch prides itself on cultivating hands-on relationships with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and financial consultants to help nurture the businesses they invest in.