Okapi Venture Capital
okapivc.com Direct investor
Okapi Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Newport Beach, California. It invests in technology startups, primarily in Southern California, with a focus on enterprise and consumer technology, as well as life sciences in earlier funds.
Okapi Venture Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Newport Beach, United States, founded in 2005. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in enterprise SaaS, AI, future of work and consumer technology. Its stated cheque size is $750K to $3M.
“We are a seed stage venture capital fund. As such, we make our initial investment into technology startups during their “seed phase” before they have established product-market-fit.”
— Okapi Venture Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Newport Beach, United States
- Invests in
- Southern California
- Sectors
- Enterprise SaaS, AI, Future of work, Consumer technology, Medical device, Medical diagnostics
- Cheque size
- $750K to $3M
- Founded
- 2005
Team, as Okapi Venture Capital publishes it
- Marc Averitt Co-Founder, Managing Director
- Jeff Bocan Managing Director
- John Waller Managing Director, Venture Partner
- Sharon Stevenson, DVM, PhD Co-Founder, Managing Director, Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on okapivc.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 54 co-investors found.
- Motley Fool Ventures 3 shared companies: chargezoom.com, kredosai.com, magicdoor.com
- Vitalizevc Management, LLC 2 shared companies: jurny.com, magicdoor.com
- 50T Funds 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Audeo Advisors LLC 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Axevil Capital, LLC 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Baseline Ventures 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Blanck Capital 1 shared company: figure.ai
- BOLD Capital Partners 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Bzh Capital Partners LLC 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Fin Capital 1 shared company: figure.ai
and 44 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Okapi Venture Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://okapivc.com/name, hq_country, hq_city
- https://okapivc.com/about-us/is_investor, layer, type, description, founded
- https://okapivc.com/about-us/approach/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://okapivc.com/about-us/team/people
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