Greg Sands is founder and managing partner at Costanoa Venture Capital, an early stage investor in cloud-based services leveraging data and analytics to serve real problems for businesses and consumers. Prior to starting Costanoa Venture Capital, Sands was a successful investor at Sutter Hills for 13 years, where he was an early investor in such companies as Merced Systems, QuinStreet, Feedburner, AllBusiness, Return Path, and Youku. Sands was the first Product Manager at Netscape Communications, where he coined the name Netscape and wrote the initial business plan.