John Casnocha is a partner in the firm’s Technology group and global co-chair of the firm’s private market liquidity group, where he advises founders, emerging growth companies, and venture capital, private equity and other investment funds on corporate and transactional matters, including formations, financings, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and structuring and executing secondary sales and other private market liquidity transactions. He has guided companies and investors through hundreds of financing and M&A transactions worth billions of dollars in a wide variety of industries including software, digital media and health, life sciences, fintech, PropTech, climate tech, EdTech, crypto and web3, artificial intelligence, consumer products, entertainment, and sports.
John spends his free time chasing after his three young daughters and exploring the outdoors. He serves as President of the Board of Trustees of Lone Mountain Children’s Center.
Experience
John’s representative company clients include: Archy, Awardco, Bloomreach, Clayful, ClarityPay, Constrafor, /dev/agents, Diagon Technologies, Emergence Software, Evolve Vacation Rental, FrontApp, Gridware, Hansa, HenryMeds, Jam, Jaris, Laravel, Last Labs, Latch, Lightbeam, LiquiDonate, LoveFrom, Magic Soup, Mezmo, Miro, Mode, Neubird, Neuro-ID, OpenLoop, Orbital, Premier Lacrosse League, Parade.AI, Prime Financial Technologies, PubNub, Recall.ai, Sauron, SavvyMoney, Scopely, Slingshot AI, Spawning, StepMobile, StepSecurity, Teambridge, Tekion, TrueNorth, Truework, WattCarbon, and Wisdom AI.
Representative Matters
- Has represented numerous companies and venture capital firms in hundreds of early stage seed financings through late stage growth equity financings. Such firms include a16z, Accel, Alkeon Capital, B Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Base 10, Construct Capital, DivcoWest, General Catalyst, Heavybit, Lightspeed, Lobby Capital, Mayfield Capital, Nava Ventures, NEA, Section 32, True Ventures, Two Bear Capital, Uncork Capital, Vesey Ventures, Village Global, VMG Partners, Westbridge Capital, and World Innovation Labs.
- Represented Neuro-ID, Inc. in its sale to Experian
- Represented Silo.AI Oy in its sale to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMD)
- Represented Krebs Stamos Group in its sale to SentinelOne (NYSE: S)
- Represented Bloomreach, Inc. in its acquisition of Radiance Commerce
- Represented Dynaboard, Inc. in its sale to Figma, Inc.
- Represented Gather Learning, Inc. in its sale to Mighty Networks, Inc.
- Represented Calyptia Inc. in its sale to Chronosophere, Inc.
- Represented Balsa, Inc. in its sale to Formagrid Inc. (dba Airtable)
- Represented RealTimeBoard, Inc. (dba Miro) in its acquisition of Around, QualDesk, InVision, Uizard, and Cardinal.
- Represented Riser Data, Inc. (dba Satsuma) in its sale to Alchemy
- Represented Honest Day’s Work in its sale to Latch Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: LTCH)
- Represented Scopely, Inc. in its sale to Savvy Games Group
- Represented StorageOS, Inc. in its sale to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM)
- Represented Hello Digit, Inc. in its sale to Oportun, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPRT)
- Represented Deliverr in its sale to Shopify (NYSE:SHOP)
- Represented Portworx, Inc. in its sale to Pure Storage, Inc. (NYSE: PSTG)
- Represented Qualtrics International Inc. in its sale to SAP SE (NYSE: SAP)
- Represented underwriters in the Tintri, Inc. initial public offering
- Represented Doximity, Inc. (NYSE: DOCS) in its initial public offering
- Represented Poshmark, Inc. (NYSE: POSH) in its initial public offering
- Represented underwriters in the Qualtrics International, Inc. (Nasdaq: XM) initial public offering
- Represented Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANTH) in various equity offerings
- Represented Amplify Snack Brands, Inc. (NYSE: BETR) in its follow-on public offering
- Represented Blueprint Medicines, Inc. (NYSE: BPMC) in its follow-on public offering
- Represented MyoKardia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MYOK) in its follow-on public offering
- Represented Qualtrics International, Inc. in its dual track proposed initial public offering and sale
- Represented Truck Hero, Inc. in its dual track proposed initial public offering and sale
- Represented underwriters in the Sonim Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: SONM) initial public offering
- Represented underwriters in the ForeScout Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSCT) initial public offering and follow-on offering
- Represented underwriters in the Tintri, Inc. initial public offering
Professional Experience
Prior to joining Goodwin, John was an associate in Latham & Watkins’ San Francisco and London offices. Prior to attending law school, John taught English at a university in Quito, Ecuador and at San Francisco University High School.
Credentials
Education
JD
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
BA
Amherst College
Clerkships
Hon. Joseph C. Spero, USDC, N.D. Cal.
Admissions
Bars
- California
Recognition & Awards
John was selected to Super Lawyers’ Rising Stars list for 2021 and 2022, and in 2024 was named by Venture Capital Journal as one of the top 40 venture capital professionals under age of 40.