Amy Cheetham, Partner
Costanoa Ventures
Amy is a Partner at Costanoa Ventures where she has played an instrumental role in expanding Costanoa’s fintech practice. In addition to deepening the firm’s fintech portfolio in the US, Amy has driven the firm’s expansion into emerging markets, specifically into Latin America and Africa. Her primary focus is on seed and series A stage B2B fintech companies, which encompass everything from fintech infrastructure to payments to application-layer tools. In less than five years, she has led multiple investments, including Assis, Malga, Highline, and Highnote and sits on four boards. Amy was recently named as one of the top ten emerging VCs on the Midas Brink List by Forbes.
Amy is an advocate for both broader financial inclusion and for adding diverse perspectives to startups, on boards and in the venture community. She has played an active role at AllRaise.
Before joining Costanoa in 2019, Amy ran North American sales strategy and operations at Zuora, a public enterprise software company. Prior to that, she spent three years investing in growth stage technology companies at Summit Partners, where her investments included Podium, InfoArmor (acq. AllState), and onXmaps. Amy began her career on Wall Street, working at JP Morgan where she spent time as a technology investment banker and as an equities trader focused on financial services. Her experience at JP Morgan and Summit Partners has helped inform her ability to assess sectors, see opportunities and threats and then weave that all together into investment judgment.